The all-time greatest speaker I have ever worked with. I've worked with Carol over a 12-year period--numerous times. She has an incredible ability to connect with the audience. I've seen her present to an audience of CEOs and totally blow them away.
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., president of Kinsey Consulting Services, is an international in-person and virtual keynote speaker for corporations, conferences, universities, and government agencies.
Her speaking engagements are designed to give audiences powerful and practical strategies that can be implemented immediately. Carol helps executives, managers, entrepreneurs, team leaders, and sales professionals build their leadership presence and use body language to support their verbal messages. She is a sought-after international speaker at business meetings, association conferences, government agencies, and universities with clients in 32 countries.
Carol is a best-selling author of thirteen business books, including The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help – or Hurt – How You Lead and her newest, STAND OUT: How to Build your Leadership Presence.
Her video course, Body Language for Leaders has had over 2 million views and is available on LinkedinLearning. Carol is a content expert with the e-learning company, Athena Online.
Her expertise has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, Investors Business Daily, CNN’s Business Unusual, PBS Marketplace, the Washington Post’s “On Leadership” column, MarketWatch radio, and the NBC Nightly News.
Carol has served as an adjunct faculty member at John F. Kennedy University in the International MBA program, at the University of California in the Executive Education Department, and for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at their Institutes for Organization Management. She is a current faculty member for the Institute for Management Studies, and an International Partner with the World Business Angels Investment Fund (WBAF) where she volunteers her coaching expertise.
In addition, Carol is a California-based executive coach with two specialties: 1) assisting leaders as they craft and deliver key messages, and 2) helping senior managers prepare for C-Suite roles by increasing their leadership presence, which she defines as “the ability to influence and impact others by projecting confidence, credibility, caring, and charisma.”
Before her work in the business world, Carol was a therapist in private practice, a nightclub performer, and a majorette for the 49ers football team – but not in that order.
When first introduced to a female leader, followers immediately and unconsciously assess her for warmth (empathy, likeability, caring) and authority (power, credibility, status). Women are champions in the warmth and empathy arena, but lose out with power and authority cues – mostly because they fall prey to 10 common body language traps. Find out how to use body language that shows you are both
warm and powerful.
Great salespeople know the importance of great body language. Success in customer service, sales, and negotiations is heavily influenced by nonverbal factors, such as the way your gestures match the other person’s, the level of interest and energy in your voice, the amount of eye contact you use, and how well you can read (and respond to) nonverbal signals you get in return. Find out how to use body language as a valuable tool for gaining rapport, projecting credibility, uncovering deception, and closing the sale.
Body language is the management of time, space, appearance, posture, gesture, touch, facial expression, eye contact, and voice. When your verbal and nonverbal messages shift out of alignment, communication suffers and your impact is weakened. Aligning your body language with your key messages is the secret to increased leadership effectiveness. Find out how to nonverbally project confidence, build trust, inspire others, and convince skeptical audiences.
Leadership Presence is not an attribute automatically assigned to you because of your business results. It isn’t necessarily reflective of your true qualities and potential. Instead, it depends entirely on how others evaluate you. Being perceived as a leader when interacting with customers, peers, or executives, is the essence of leadership presence. Find out how to project confidence, retain your poise under pressure, present ideas decisively, and engage others in ways that are authentic, empathetic and motivational.