Topics
Threat and risk management. Privacy and security. The world of intelligence. Team building.
Julian Fisher is an intelligence specialist and author of Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances (Hachette 2024). In that book, Julian explains how readers can apply the nine secret skills of espionage to help them achieve their personal and professional goals. In 2017, he was the lead trainer on the Channel 4 TV series Spies, which put sixteen ordinary people through a series of challenges to find out if they had what it takes to be a spy.
Julian previously worked in a specialised branch of the British Diplomatic Service, for which he saw action in challenging locations around the world. He went on to work for a global private military company, operationally active in Africa. In his time, he has seen off camel-rustlers in Somalia, faced down gun-toting soldiers in The Congo, trained a newly-formed intelligence service in South Sudan and been invited to help plot a coup in West Africa (he declined).
Julian is an experienced and inspiring public speaker, with a strong track-record in the following areas:
- Keynote addresses at conferences and corporate awaydays.
- After-dinner and motivational speeches.
- Workshops and seminars.
- Themed team-building events.
- Tailored training events.
A specialist in the ‘people’ side of intelligence, Julian talks about what companies and individuals can learn from this world to enhance their effectiveness and productivity.
He focuses on leadership, interpersonal skills, motivations and influence. He also guides organisations on the uses of intelligence in threat and risk management, privacy and security. He can provide insights into global security matters, geopolitical risk and the realities behind headlines about terrorism, China, Russia and beyond.
Examples of keynote speeches that Julian offers include:
“Think Like a Spy: How Spies Achieve the Unimaginable and How You Can Too”. This is a motivational talk that focuses on personal-development lessons to be learned from Intelligence Officers’ use of interpersonal skills and human psychology.
“The business of spying: lessons from a parallel world”. Again, this is a motivational talk that examines how businesspeople can think like a spy to grow client-bases and improve inter-cultural communication and understanding.
“Thank you for a wonderful talk. The whole team thoroughly enjoyed the session and it prompted a lot of interesting discussions at drinks afterwards and in the office”
