{"id":51326,"date":"2018-05-08T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/speaker\/leo-martin-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:56:35","slug":"leo-martin","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/speaker-presenter\/leo-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leo Martin studied criminal justice and worked for German security agencies for nearly 15 years\u2014first with the police and later for the intelligence service.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing his police training\u2014where he graduated at the top of his class among 360 graduates\u2014his career path took him from the Bavarian Police and a long-term project at the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) to the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. There, he immersed himself deeply in the world of organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His special assignment with the intelligence service: recruiting and managing informants within the criminal underworld. To do this, Leo Martin had to build trust, identify motives, and win people over to his cause\u2014all within a very short time and under intense pressure. His tools of the trade: <strong>professional insight into human nature, leadership, and communication.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leo Martin: \u201cWhat can companies learn from the intelligence service?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What determines success or failure in intelligence operations also plays a central role in companies: trust. It speeds up decision-making, reduces resistance, brings problems to light sooner, and strengthens bonds. Anyone who wants to win people over therefore needs more than just good arguments. It\u2019s about understanding people, connecting with them emotionally, and using communication in a way that fosters trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Leo Martin applies his experience to <strong>leadership, sales, and collaboration<\/strong>. The psychological principles he has used in the context of organized crime apply equally to relationships between managers and employees, salespeople and customers, or in conflict situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-leo-martin-s-presentation-topics\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leo Martin\u2019s Presentation Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Secret Weapons of Communication: Gentle Strategies with a Powerful Impact<\/strong><br>Learn the secrets of fair and appreciative communication\u2014how to use them and appreciate their value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mission Trust: The Art of Winning People Over<\/strong><br>How to build trust and win others over to you, your ideas, goals, and projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>I\u2019ve Got You! The Art of Winning People Over<\/strong><br>How to build trust and win others over to your side, your ideas, goals, and projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mission: Understanding People: The Art of Reading People<\/strong><br>How to figure out where you stand with the person you\u2019re talking to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>I See Right Through You! The Art of Reading People<\/strong><br>How to figure out where you stand with the person you\u2019re talking to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Crime Scene: Text\u2014What Your Writing Style Reveals About You<\/strong><br>The secret patterns of language\u2014a language profiler reveals what others are really saying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His keynotes combine a lecture with a live performance. Leo Martin doesn\u2019t just talk about communication and understanding people; he demonstrates their impact live with people from the audience. This allows guests to experience firsthand how trust is built, how people react, and which communication strategies actually work. The techniques he teaches can be directly applied to everyday professional life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo Martin often takes the stage without any presentation slides. Depending on the event, however, he also works with modern hologram technology and combines his content with an extraordinary stage production. For him, the immediate experience for the audience remains the most important factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With his interactive presentation <strong>\u201cSecret Weapons of Communication\u201d<\/strong> and the intensive training program <strong>\u201cMission Trust\u201d<\/strong>, Leo Martin has been a regular presence among professionals and executives, as well as at events hosted by leading companies, for more than ten years. His books on trust and understanding human nature are SPIEGEL bestsellers. His current website describes him as a <strong>three-time SPIEGEL bestselling author<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Leo Martin is a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), a contributor to Focus Online, and a TOP 100 keynote speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-leo-martin-criminal-investigator-amp-entrepreneur\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leo Martin \u2013 Criminal Investigator &amp; Entrepreneur<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo Martin continues to work as a criminal investigator. As managing director of the <strong>Private Institute for Forensic Text Analysis<\/strong>, he works with a highly specialized team of experts to identify anonymous criminals. On behalf of security agencies and companies, the specialists investigate, among other things, anonymous threatening letters, defamatory statements, and blackmail letters, analyzing characteristic language patterns to expose their authors. This work is still explicitly mentioned on his current website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Martin: Geheimwaffe Vertrauen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44336,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"speaker-category":[16586,16604,16602],"speaker-topic":[16640,16644,16652],"speaker-type":[16667,16668],"speaker-gender":[16670],"speaker-language":[16572,16571],"class_list":["post-51326","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker-category-adventure-experiences","speaker-category-entrepreneurship","speaker-category-trainer-workshops","speaker-topic-lifestyle","speaker-topic-motivation-strategy","speaker-topic-rhetoric-communication","speaker-type-keynote-speaker","speaker-type-trainer","speaker-gender-men","speaker-language-english","speaker-language-german"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leo Martin - Criminalist &amp; Rhetoric Expert | Premium Speakers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leo Martin studied criminology &amp; worked for a leading German intelligence service for ten years. 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