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Lead with the science of ethical persuasion.

The room agrees with you, and then nothing actually moves.

Positional authority wins the nod in the room. It rarely wins the follow-through outside it. The 7 Principles give leaders like you an evidence-based account of what does, and an ethical way to use it with boards, teams and change programs.

Dr. Robert Cialdini, founder of the Cialdini Institute

Executive Advantage

From agreement to movement

The higher you rise, the fewer people will tell you why a decision stalled. These principles show you where to look.

01

Change people commit to out loud

Resistance is rarely disagreement with the destination. Commitment and Unity are about how a decision gets made, and whether the people in the room had a hand in it.

02

Boards that back you between meetings

A board decision is made in the conversations you are not in. Evidence-based influence is how your case survives being retold by someone else.

03

One language for influence, across functions

Sales, HR and product each persuade differently and none of them can explain how. A shared framework makes those conversations comparable, and therefore improvable.

In the Room

Learned with peers, not from a lecture.

The POP Workshop is two days of hands-on work at round tables. Participants work through each principle together and practise it on situations from their own work.

A full room of participants at round tables during a Principles of Persuasion workshop
A Principles of Persuasion workshop, 2019
Two participants discussing a case at a POP workshop table
Participants working a case together
Dr. Robert Cialdini with a full workshop cohort holding signs about the principles
A POP cohort with Dr. Cialdini
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“I have always been impressed with his integrity, his honesty, his high ethics standards, the way that he conducts his life and his business.”
Gerry Allen

Gerry Allen

Former Vice President, IBM

Your Next Step

Make the room move, not just agree.

Private coaching, or the two-day workshop for your leadership team. Start with the assessment, because 12 minutes will tell you which principle to work on first.

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The principles, applied here.