Dr James Alvarez is an internationally renowned expert in persuasion and negotiation, having been the only psychologist utilised by Scotland Yard and the NYPD in hostage situations. Backed by an extensive range of professional psychology qualifications, Alvarez is now combing his experiences and education as a behaviour and change management speaker. One of the world’s most impressive communicators, Alvarez has honed the qualities required for communicating in challenging circumstances and with varied personality types, a skill he instils in corporate clients for effective business.
Spending six years working alongside police in high profile hostage negotiations, Alvarez was called on to share insight into the perpetrator’s potential behaviours and state of mind, due to his superior knowledge as a Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Through his role as the European Operations Director of the International Association of Hostage Negotiations Alvarez successfully reached a resolution on 24 kidnap cases and earnt the title of Honorary Police Surgeon of the NYPD. With more than 30 years of practical psychology experience, Alvarez has established himself as an authority on the effect of emotions on behaviour in a range of environments, from foreign militaries to corporate businesses.
Since 2008, Alvarez has been working alongside numerous blue-chip companies to transform their potential with his unrivalled insight. Whether he’s relating hostage negotiations to business negotiations or improving performance through education on behaviour change management, Alvarez’s input has already improved the output of numerous clients in the public and private sector. Sharing an impactful and engaging presentation, audiences of Alvarez’s talks are guaranteed a discussion with long-lasting positive implications on an individual and team-wide basis.
With people at the heart of Alvarez’s work, he is currently continuing as a consultant psychologist in person and on-screen, improving performance through personal advancement. He can regularly be seen in the media, called on by broadcasters like the BBC and CNN as an expert in his field, and as a contributor to police manuals. With an established reputation for communication and change management, Alvarez is ideally suited to give keynote talks for conferences, corporate clients and industry summits.
How to hire Dr. James Alvarez
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Your session was fire. Everyone I spoke to raved about it - and it was unsolicited. Which was awesome. In fact, a few times I was told 'I wish he could have stayed longer' 'can you get him back again?'. - Keji Mustapha
The feedback from James was great. The audience was super interactive, lots of questions so much so we overran ever so slightly. Thank you both so much again for all your help facilitating and look forward to working with James again and with Champions, too for our 2023 edition. - Keji, Global Director
"He was absolutely amazing and I have waited to write in order to get wider feedback. But without doubt, he was fully appreciated across the entire business. Charismatic, funny, knowledgeable and compelling were a few of the adjectives shared. Everyone was captivated and although entertained, they were also educated. Please convey our thanks to him and hopefully we will be looking at a rerun – if not with us, with others in the portfolio. James will concur, but our team did not want him to leave the stage. So a huge thank you to him and Liam, who really was very supportive and accommodating to my chaos." - Alison, Head of Marketing & Communications , Mercia
