Keynote Speaker
Scott Walker is a trusted advisor to senior business leaders and one of the world’s most experienced kidnap-for-ransom and crisis response negotiators. He has also served as a senior advisor to the United Nations in the Middle East and North Africa. That experience has given him a ring-sdie seat into how people decide, communicate, and behave under pressure.
He now brings the same lessons from life-critical negotiations into corporate settings to help organisations build trust quickly, navigate objections, resolve conflict, and handle difficult conversations with calm confidence when the stakes are high.
Why book Scott as a speaker for your event?
He brings first-hand experience from resolving over 300 life-critical kidnap-for-ransom and crisis negotiations, giving leaders rare insight into how decisions are really made under extreme pressure.
He translates proven negotiation and crisis response techniques into practical frameworks that help executives build trust, handle objections and lead difficult conversations with confidence.
He draws on senior advisory work with governments, global organisations and the United Nations to help leaders navigate high-stakes risk, uncertainty and conflict in complex environments.
His alks equip teams to stay calm, think clearly and act decisively when the consequences are real, reputations are on the line and failure is not an option.
The Fireside Chat
Beyond the keynote podium, Scott also engages audiences with compelling conversations designed for executive retreats as well as sales and leadership events. No scripts, no rehearsals just an insightful, informative and interesting conversation.
Global Perspectives
Featured commentary on global negotiation issues
The Guardian
How to ask for a pay rise – and make sure you get it. Be sure of your facts so you can confidently argue your current pay is not in line wit
How I Communicate With Terrorists & Kidnappers
In this episode of Minutes With, we sat down with Scott Walker, one of the world’s most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators. Scott rev
Modern Wisdom Podcast interview
Scott Walker is a former Scotland Yard detective, world renowned hostage negotiator and an author. Having successfully resolved over 300 cas
The New York Times
How to bargain like a kidnap negotiator. One tip, keep your cool! Full article for NY Times subscribers.
The Rebel Work Podcast
Scott Walker: Empathy, Sympathy & Compassion - Lessons from a Hostage Negotiator.
Fast Company
We all have to interact with difficult people in our lives. Here’s how to do it more effectively.
The emma guns show
Scott Walker | A hostage negotiator on staying calm in a crisis and the many ways you can look at risk.
Jordan Harbinger podcast interview
If you want to understand communication, emotional regulation, and bargaining under pressure, join us here with former hostage negotiator Sc
Harvard Business Review
Managing yourself. Negotiate Like a Pro. During his former career as a kidnapping and extortion negotiator, the author handled sensitive cas
Past engagements
Global conferences, boardrooms, and leadership summits
