Mark Bowden is an expert in human behaviour and body language, and is the creator of TRUTHPLANE®, a communication training company and unique methodology for anyone who has to communicate with impact to an audience. Mark gives informative highly entertaining keynote speeches on how to use the most influential verbal and nonverbal language and communication structures to help you, and your organization, stand out, win trust and gain credibility every time you speak.His communication techniques, in which he trains individuals and groups worldwide, have garnered him a reputation as one of the world’s foremost authorities on nonverbal communication – Mark was voted #1 in the world’s top 30 Body Language Professionals two years running by Global Gurus.Mark’s client list of leading business people, teams, and politicians currently includes presidents and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and current Prime Ministers of G8 powers. Clients include: RBC, TD, Amex, Munich Re, AVIVA, Microsoft, Google, Toyota, VW, Samsung, P&G, Viacom, WPP, The BBC, ITV, Walmart, Nestle, Roche, GSK, Teva, Novo Nordisk, PPG. Mark is on the faculty of the International Masters of Health Leadership at McGill University, and on the faculty as the business presentation trainer for The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA, ranked #1 in the world by The Economist.Mark’s publications include the bestselling Winning Body Language (McGraw Hill 2010); Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals (McGraw Hill 2012); and Tame the Primitive Brain – 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work (Wiley 2013). Mark is also the co-creator of online training product Presentation Genius™, one of the most exciting ways to improve presentation skills on any handheld device.Mark is honored to be a member of the TED community, having spoken on the main stage at TEDx Toronto. He is a regular guest on daytime TV as the Body Language expert on Canadian Broadcaster CTV’s The Social Television Show.

The Behavior Panel comprises the world's top body language and behavior experts: Scott Rouse, Mark Bowden, Chase Hughes, and Greg Hartley. They analyze behavior and body language in videos of public interest. This non-partisan group aims to educate and entertain, focusing on nonverbal communication, deception detection, behavioral analysis, statement analysis, interrogation, and resistance to interrogation. Through careful examination of gestures, expressions, linguistics, and cultural context, they reveal truths and deceptions. The Behavior Panel is prominently featured on The Dr. Phil Show and has its own show on the US TV Network, Merit Street Media.Watch their analysis of interviews with true crime, entertainment, and political figures. Learn alongside them how to read body language, detect deception, and analyze behavior to help keep yourself and those you love safe.New videos are released every Thursday on YouTube and Saturday on Merit Street.

Communication, Influence and Persuasion for Leaders in World Health."The IMHL is unique and highly ambitious. We are setting out to change, not only education for health leadership, but the health system itself, by bringing into an ongoing forum the best of practicing leadership from all regions of the world." - Henry Mintzberg, Co-Founding Director of the IMHL, Faculty of Management

"The Schulich Executive Education Centre (SEEC) keeps going back to Mark for communications training for domestic and international management clients for a very good reason. He is excellent at what he does, is totally engaging and is just simply a wonderful person to work with in every aspect of the relationship." - Alan Middleton Executive Director Executive Education Centre, Schulich School of Business York University

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This lecture helps those seeking ordination and the ordained understand the powerful effect their body language can have with a congregation.

Within seconds of Mark Bowden walking on stage to close out the day’s Talks, he announced to the audience that they had already decided whether he was “friend or foe”. In his Talk, Mark argues that whether we’re aware of it or not, this kind of judgment is a direct result of the instantaneous evaluations of our primitive brains. Every day, our brain weighs the people we meet and places each person into one of four categories: friend, enemy, potential sexual partner, or indifferent. However, he argues one can employ specific behaviours to change another’s perceptions and in fact, challenges us to be “more inauthentic.”