Training

Experience the training sessions that some of the world’s top companies are using to give their teams an edge.

Jeremy provides training to teams and corporate executives that range from brief lunch-and-learn sessions to all day seminars and multi-day courses. While the trainings often focus on tactical skills to improve salesmanship and relationship development, Jeremy also specializes in motivation, leadership, emotional intelligence, and mindset-shifts as well. Jeremy is also deeply experienced in executive leadership training and brings unique ideas about interviewing, ethics, and leading teams under pressure to these training sessions.

All sessions are bespoke, and Jeremy’s process typically involves multiple interviews with organizational stakeholders to ask key questions and maximize the impact he can provide by learning about any organization he is working with. Jeremy’s background in consulting supports this process as he identities key areas of communication and salesmanship that can be improved to drive performance. A roster of ideas is shared ahead of any engagement for clients to choose what areas are of keenest interest and Jeremy works collaboratively to help pinpoint those areas.

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Training sessions can feel tedious, but Sell Like a Spy always keeps attendees engaged. Leveraging compelling anecdotes from the world of espionage makes these sessions thrilling as well as deeply useful.

While all of Jeremy's engagements are customized for the specific needs of his clients here are a few of the most popular themes:

  • Early Career Communication Growth: Jeremy is regularly asked to train the newest members of an organization to shift their mindsets and enhance their social skills. Younger employees have grown up looking at screens and many faced the challenge of remote-learning during the pandemic, which cost them valuable socialization experience. They are now often facing a work-remote culture that lacks in mentorship possibilities. Jeremy provides insights and strategies to overcome these developmental challenges and communicate better with colleagues and clients.

  • Building Commercial Acumen: No matter what level you have reached in your career there are always ways to improve. Jeremy works with professionals across seniority levels to help them unlock new ideas on how to develop more business. For instance, many attorneys tell Jeremy that they are experts in a particular area of the law but wish they could grow their ability to develop business and client relationships. Jeremy helps law firm partners and other experienced corporate executives to develop new strategies to grow relationships.

  • Negotiation: Jeremy taps into the skills of FBI agents and negotiators to help teams to negotiate better and strive for outcomes that lead to wins and stronger relationships with counterparties. He shares strategies gleaned from his work with law enforcement officials on reading body language and detecting deception and provides impactful lessons on how to cool heated emotional encounters to reach your goal.

  • Networking: Networking can be a challenge even for experienced professionals. Walking into a room full of people you might not know and trying to start conversations is daunting. Jeremy helps unlock ways to use these time-limited opportunities to maximize your impact. Concepts involving the utilization of “access agents” provide outside-the-box ideas about making new contacts and being strategic about business development goals. Jeremy shares lessons on how spies network effectively, and how the “atmosphere & intangibles” should color your networking approach.

  • Motivation & Leadership: Teams can get stuck in their day-to-day grind and finding ways to inspire and look at their work with fresh eyes can unlock potential and motivation. Using the skills of spies and other government officials to improve communication and network better can make an old job feel new. Jeremy helps individuals at every level create a leadership mindset using the battle-tested methods of elite soldiers and top generals.

  • Executive training: Working closely with management teams, Jeremy trains them to improve their communication skills and leadership. These talks and trainings help executives to create ethical hierarchies which provide clarity to their teams to facilitate the achievement of corporate goals. Jeremy also provides lessons from military commanders on using intelligence from the field to make better decisions, and how to interview better.

Partners

Jeremy frequently draws partners from his deep network of former government officials to build events for clients.

Steve Romano on the Rachel Maddow Show

Sell Like a Spy Partner Steve Romano is a former FBI Chief Hostage Negotiator and a highly sought after commentator on crisis situations. He has appeared on Fox, CNN, MSNBC and many others networks. Here he talks with Rachel Maddow about an infamous hostage situation - later made into the blockbuster movie Captain Philips staring Tom Hanks - off the coast of Somalia.

Watch Jeremy interview Steve on the FBI's "Skills of Social Influence".

Steve Romano in Security Magazine

Robert Grenier on Vice news

Bob Grenier had a long and storied career in the CIA, including his role as head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. Bob was interviewed by Vice News after releasing his memoir 88 Days to Kandahar. He reflects on his career, how the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan transpired after 9/11, and a range of other intelligence questions.

Robert Grenier in Pakistan