Barry Goodfield TOPICS: Global Affairs Negotiation Conflict Management Communication Leadership Team Building Creativity Crisis Management FEE CATEGORY:* 10.0k to 15.0k TRAVELS FROM: Arizona Video Profile Program Outlines Request This Speaker

Barry Goodfield: Profile

...When major oil companies had fires they couldn't extinguish, they called in famed firefighter Red Adair.

...When President Slobodan Milosevic struggled with NATO over Kosovo, NATO leaders needed a clear picture of what to expect from the embattled president of Yugoslavia. They brought in Dr. Barry Goodfield for an in-depth clinical analysis of the dictator. Later, Goodfield was asked to share his views with BBCworld in commentary and analysis...

...When key western governments had a Mideast crisis and needed an emergency analysis of Saddam Hussein, they engaged Barry Goodfield. The Goodfield Method analyzed the dictator's nonverbal cues and was used as an important tool in the negotiation strategy with Saddam....

...When the US Civil Rights Commission needed to investigate the kidnapping of a native American girl, they called Goodfield, who located and returned the girl from her captives and ultimately brought her home. The drama played out nationally numerous times on the front page of the New York Times as well as extended coverage on NBC Nightly News..

...When a disgruntled and deranged person terrorized a major US Airline threatening to down their planes, the airline brought in psychological profiler Goodfield, who isolated, outwitted and legally neutralized the terrorist...

...When a major Swiss pharmaceutical giant needed to get a clear picture of the psychophysical relationship between human energy and psychopharmacology they hired Goodfield. Together, they produced a documentary...

Barry Goodfield is a speaker of insight and action - who doesn't just talk about the action - he's often at the center of it. He helped negotiate the Baltic crisis, the conflict between Chechnian leaders and President Yeltsin, and other major world conflicts. He has advised Presidents, Prime Ministers and other top leaders on crisis management and conflict resolution.. His worldwide experience in dealing with top corporations and governments brings to your audience an expertise matched by few on the speakers circuit.

...When New Zealand's teen suicide climbed to unbearable levels, government agencies sought out Goodfield to meet with top sociologists and psychologists. In an interview on New Zealand's 60 Minutes, Goodfield offered practical solutions to the underlying causes of this tragedy?

...When the Diplomatic Academy at England's University of Oxford needed to train top diplomats from around the world, on the psychological factors of international diplomacy they called exclusively for Dr. Goodfield...

This "Doctor To The Decision Makers" (Open Markets Magazine, June 1985) will bring to your organization, your audience, a speech they won't soon forget. His variety of topics is delivered with no punches pulled - direct, honest, frequently politically incorrect - and enormously memorable. Rather than leave your audience with "feelgood" babble they forget in a day or two, Barry Goodfield leaves your organization with substance and solutions they'll use for years - whether it's negotiation, conflict resolution, personal motivation or any of the other speech topics listed below.

This truly American personality can often be found performing speeches in his 30-year-old Stetson and alligator cowboy boots - or in black tie in London as keynote speaker to the Directors of Institutes and Diplomatic Academies.

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