Paul Ekman Associates
I am a psychotherapist and private and corporate coach. My specialties are understanding the mind-body connection and emotional intelligence. I believe developing these skills is extremely important for interacting with other human beings, both in private and professional. My aim is to work holistically with my clients
Angela is the owner of Kinesics Consulting – a firm which helps businesses and their owners achieve their full potential by mastering the art of non-verbal communication. Our clients learn how to exceed their negotiation efforts, sales, interpersonal connections, and public speaking skills. This knowledge, which not only enables personal growth and a better representation of your business, also strongly contributes to a growth in revenue.
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Desislava Damyanova is Founder and CEO of EI Academy Bulgaria. The Academy’s activities include training programs for children and
adults, individual sessions and corporate training. AEI is the only organization in
Bulgaria that provides a full range of professional knowledge in the scope of Emotions
and Facial Expressions, having in mind that emotions are the main component of
Emotional Intelligence.
The company focuses on:
Desislava is a trainer, expert on emotions and Emotional Intelligence, Body
Language, negotiation, soft and presentation skills, team building, conflict
resolution at work environment. She is certified in testing, analyzing and
evaluating emotional intelligence with the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional
Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Psychologist and Pedagogue, Mediator, NLP coach,
Master of Law and Public Administration, certified in Psychobiology, Emotional
skills and Competencies (Facial Expressions), Evaluating Truthfulness and
Credibility.
Edmond Cigale has been dedicating his professional career to the exploration of the potentials of human awareness since 1996. He is the CEO at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and owner of TCT® Academy, the three-year Program for humanistic consultants. Edmond has completed graduate studies in the integration of cognitive, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology; he is a leading professional in humanistic and transpersonal consulting and nonverbal communication in Slovenia.
As a seasoned trainer, professional coach, and facilitator in the field of human behavior, Edmond is well aware of the personal and professional challenges of a wide range of clients. He is passionate about empowering people to increase emotional intelligence and authenticity, decode body language and nonverbal communication, evaluate the credibility and detect deception. Edmond aims to support clients to better connect with others, to lead teams more proficiently, and to enjoy a richer and happier life. He offers professional coaching and training in both the personal and professional lives of individuals, groups, and team leaders in organizations. He specializes in body language, nonverbal communication, and deception detection based on scientific research.
As the only Paul Ekman Associate operating in Slovenia, Edmond advances a unique integration of knowledge and skillful means to individuals and groups in seminars, workshops, individual settings, and online, delivering a variety of custom-made training sessions to everyone interested in developing and expanding self-awareness.
The nature of human relationships led me to want to know more about how people behave and make decisions. The more I delved into the complexity of human beings, the more I got engaged and eager to learn. Negotiation came to me as the science that helped me understand and constructively facilitate human interactions. Learning about Emotional Intelligence was a paramount part of that process.
Eduardo is Specialist in Negotiation by the University of Buenos Aires. He also specialized his studies at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and delved his knowledge in areas like Emotional Intelligence and Neuroscience. He teaches at a postgraduate program in Negotiation at Buenos Aires University and works in consultancy for companies and organizations.
After several years in the bank and insurance field, Emmanuelle creates, in 2017, her own structure as a coach and trainer in professional and personal development on the Reunion Island.
After obtaining her certificate as a professional coach and an introductory DU in positive psychology, she has been developing, since 2016, original techniques that improve attention, memory performance, stress management, and emotions.
In 2019, she became a Paul Ekman International’s Associate, convinced in particular by the scientific approach of emotional intelligence, in coherence with its training and development background. She also practices meditation of mental calm (Shine in Tibetan), whose teachings are transmitted to her by a Buddhist master trained by great Tibetan lamas.
Dr. Guila Clara Kessous is a UNESCO Peace Ambassador, a diplomatic negotiator, and an executive coach using theatrical techniques to enhance corporate communication and help heal those who have suffered from prior trauma. She became Paul Ekman International Partner in 2021 and is using Ekman’s profiling and emotional intelligence techniques dedicated to coaching, negotiation, and humanitarian causes.
As a recipient of an Executive MBA from ESSEC Business School, a Ph.D. from Boston University under Nobel Prize Elie Wiesel’s direction, and a Post-Doc from Harvard University, she was invited to develop the communication course of the new certificate on « Situational Intelligence » at the Political Science Institute in Paris in 2021.
She has combined her artistic experience together with coaching methods such as positive psychology (Tal Ben Shahar), Leadership and Negotiation (William L. Ury), Executive Communication Skills (Marjorie North), and Emotional Intelligence (Associate Paul Ekman’s EIA). She is a certified coach ICC trainer (EMCC) and expert in assessment tools such as Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (MRG) and Hogan (Authentic Talent). As a certified coach, she has helped hundreds of senior executives (private sector: CAC 40, Nasdaq 500…) dealing with positive leadership. As a certified negotiator, she has been involved in peace negotiation working alongside her Ph.D. advisor, Nobel Prize Elie Wiesel, and Harvard Professor William L. Ury. She belongs to the NERA Institute (French Negotiation Institute) and has developed the negotiation and leadership certification together with his founder Julien Pelabere. She is the recipient of the Women Empowerment Award 2020 by Eva Longoria from the Global Gift Foundation for her work to help access education in Pakistan and in Burundi and has been knighted by the French government.
With over 10 years of experience in the consulting industry, change management, and high escalation mediation, Ilhan is a leading consultant and coach in the field of digital transformation, leadership, and high psychological safety. Ilhan specializes in coaching leaders, teams, individuals to increase their resilience, self-awareness, emotional intelligence and make teams more connected and successful. He helps organizations reach the next level, with a data-driven still highly emotional, and holistic approach and maximize their opportunities.
Founding several companies and being a CEO of a successful consulting boutique himself, Ilhan is additionally working with different clients across various industries.
From global corporations to small start-ups and CEOs, he understands the need to adapt to different scenarios and conflicts and solves them in a fast, professional, and still human-centered way. The skill of emotional intelligence combined with cutting-edge technology, traditional processes, methods, and tools allows him to empower the leaders and organizations of tomorrow.
Ilhan has a broad personal interest in economics, psychology, mediation, and emotional intelligence and is always curious to tackle new challenges. He brings a unique set of skills, experience, and tools to help leaders, individuals, and teams. From coaching sessions to workshops, mediation, and presentation, Ilhan offers a wide range of different training sessions based on the practical application of scientific research in the area of psychological safety, FACS coding, and emotional intelligence.
Laurence assists you in your development, helps you define your strategy, optimize your performance and your internal organization.
To ensure a solid development of your business, to reinforce your efficiency, or guide you in the success of your projects, Laurence tailors her solutions to service and support her client’s needs.
Laurence offers excellent consulting expertise (from top international law firms) combined with a pragmatic approach adapted to SMEs.
Working in Paris for more than 10 years, Ljubitza is of Italian and Greek nationality, and graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Italy (Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna University). In France, she has acquired significant working experience in the food innovation field (industry and consulting) as a consultant and a business developer.
Ljubitza also obtained a Master in Sustainable Development and Global Quality Management (Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris), specializing in Corporate Social Responsibility. This experience helped her to better understand the impacts that organizations have on the environment, society, and the workplace and allowed her to comprehend the main issues and concerns affecting employees (conflicts, psychosocial risk factors, harassment, wellbeing…).
Fascinated by human psychology and behavior, she decided to strengthen her knowledge and skills on behavioral analysis by attending the Paul Ekman courses and becoming a certified Associate. Ljubitza today delivers training sessions on facial expressions, emotions, and deception to help others recognize and understand human emotions.
Morgan Germa is a Process Method Engineer since 2009 and has worked for nearly 10 years in the medical device sector. He teaches validation methods and statistics since 2015 to engineers and pharmacists at the University Grenoble Alpes in France. In 2016, he published his book “Outils et méthodes de validation” and created the YouTube channel “QualXP” to help students to understand what process validation is. Morgan is also referenced as Technique de l’ingénieur’Author and is black belt lean 6 sigmas trained.
In 2019, Morgan decided to change his life and career developing his skills in Human behavior analysis. He is trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Skills and Competencies (ESAC), Evaluating Truthfulness and Credibility (ETAC), and Behavior Analysis and Interviewing Techniques (BAII).
Freshly prepared to become a PEI associate, he created his own company to promote Paul Ekman’s knowledge to the greatest number in order to help people become authentic in their job and private life.
Nick grew up in Athens and is the founder of Dynamic Equilibrium Ltd and Dynamic Equilibrium System. He is the INLPTA National Chapter Coordinator for Greece and Cyprus & International Ambassador of ANLP for Greece.
Nick has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and holds Trainers Training certifications from INLPTA. Moreover, he is a Practioner of Paul Ekman International (Micro Expressions & Body Language). In his Dynamic Equilibrium System™, he uniquely combines a variety of techniques such as Clean Language, Provocative approach, and Systemic Coaching and he spent lots of time combining Ancient Techniques and rituals in Modern Psychology in his model “4 elements systemic coaching”. In addition, he is working as a Behavioral Analyst and a Clinical Psychotherapist & Hypnotherapist with more than 11 years in Clinical work. Furthermore, he is a tutor of “NLP in Management” at the Athens Information Technology Institute and teaches NLP courses and Systemic constellation at the Academy of Psychotherapy in Greece and at The College of Humanistic Science in Bachelor of Criminology and Behavioral Analysis.
After having been a financier in a multinational company and a recruitment consultant for several firms, in 1998 he created COACHING & PERFORMANCE with the aim of becoming one of the French specialists in the individual coaching of managers and executives. In 2002, he is the first in Europe to organize public coaching sessions. From 2003 to 2006, he signed the last page of the economic monthly EXPANSION (the eye of the coach) that consists in decoding the way of functioning of personalities of the world of the company and politics. He will never see any before the articles are written but will be consulted by some of them afterward.
In 2007, he gets closer to the neurosciences by training in the Neurocognitive and Behavioral Approaches of Dr. Jacques FRADIN. These approaches that help to understand the human mode of functioning by understanding the functioning of our brain then become the fundamentals of COACHING & PERFORMANCE. In 2015, he decided to enrich his skills through behavioral analysis and more specifically by the model of Dr. Paul EKMAN.
He is involved in conferences on individual coaching and personal efficiency. He is a co-author of the book “Audace, Mode d’emploi” published by EYROLLES in September 2015.
He describes his interventions as a personal strategy that he defines by personal progression and relational tactics. Its main areas of intervention are the development of human potential, effectiveness and leadership, relationship to the other, adaptive intelligence, and the preparation of operational events. As part of his activities, he is daily led to decoding his clients to help them develop but also to decode their interlocutors so that they adopt the most effective relationship tactics for them.
Riccardo is a lighthearted, empathic, and professional Emotional Intelligence Trainer,
committed to working with companies, schools, and associations.
As a Sociologist, he is deeply interested in social dynamics and human behaviors,
always improving his skills to higher standards. That’s why he also studied for the
EIA Diploma in “Behavioral Analysis and Investigative Interviewing”, meanwhile
becoming an EQ Assessor, an EQ Practitioner, a Mediator, an approved Somatic
Experiencing Practitioner and an experienced Rogerian Active Listener.
He held conferences and training programs about Emotional Intelligence and
Behavioral Analysis to hundreds of people across several cities in Italy, especially in
Milan Area and Trento.
In Trento, he has the honor to cooperate with Villa S. Ignazio, a coaching and training
center of excellence, funded by the Jesuit order, with more than 40 years of
experience, thanks to the L.E.D. (Laboratory of Education to the Dialogue), one of
the most prestigious Italian Rogersian Association.
Thanks to his mindfulness and passionate teaching style, he creates a unique and
unforgettable experiences for his students, both giving them a solid and
multidisciplinary theoretical background and making them able to immediately put
into practice their new achievements.
Saara is an author, consultant, lecturer, and a certified Paul Ekman International Trainer in Emotional Skills and Credibility. Saara is specialized in emotional intelligence, credibility analysis, and facial expressions. She has published three books in Finnish covering manipulation, the concept of lying from the psychological aspect, and behavior clues related to deception detection. Saara holds two master’s degrees, Adult Education/Pedagogical Studies (Helsinki University, Finland) and Criminology/Criminal Psychology (University of Portsmouth, UK). Saara is a passionate truth seeker and a wanderer of the human mind.
Holding an Executive Master in Management from Solvay Business School (BE), for 15 years, Samantha has held various positions with responsibilities, from team leader to operational director of an SME employing 100 people. With her experience in the field, she then turned to support people in business. She was also particularly aware of the difficulties and challenges that a company may encounter in developing the skills and well-being of its employees. That’s why she acquired the title of ICF (Coaching Ways) certified coach, and then
followed many professional training programs. Samantha is passionate about human behavior and its dynamics with training and coaching in the field being at the heart of his career.
Sharon is the Founder and Lead Behavioural Investigator for the Mind Hush Group and one of only two Ekman Associates currently operating in Australia. As a behavioral science educator, she specializes in training CEOs, managers, business leaders, and other professionals in the areas of emotional intelligence, non-verbal communication, and deception detection, based on the practical application of science.
Drawing on her 27 years of experience in corporate communications spanning a diverse spectrum of industries across Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the UK, she offers a range of training courses, masterclasses, coaching sessions, and keynote presentations, in addition to being an accomplished international conference and event speaker. Sharon provides her clients with the knowledge to develop the skills needed to assess the emotional states and underlying motives of other people in order to get to the truth and credibility of information with more accuracy, make better decisions, have more influence over behavior, and achieve more successful outcomes.
Dedicated to empowering other people to better understand what drives human behavior by dissecting the science behind it, Sharon helps individuals expand their emotional intelligence to improve their own emotional life and how they connect, interact, and communicate with others. She holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from Edith Cowan University, is certified in Emotional Skills and Competencies and Evaluating Truth and Credibility (including reading micro and subtle facial expressions), and is an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Dr. Stan Rosenberg is a social and corporate anthropologist, an associate of Paul Ekman’s expert community, Philosophical Doctor.
He worked as a lawyer but when he was kidnapped by his client’s rival he decided to quit jurisprudence.
He learned psychology and international relations and got his Ph.D. in social sciences.
He started to teach but soon understood that real knowledge is not at any university or in some dusty books. It is among real people.
Then Dr. Rosenberg started to travel and to work in the field (everywhere he could meet interesting individuals), collecting stories of people like you and me.
9 years of research and over 4000 personal conversations with representatives of more than 50 cultures shaped his knowledge of human behavior!
Now he consults startups and commercial companies on how they can raise their efficiency and motivation, how to make the best communication strategy in any team. He teaches the company’s employees to understand each other, understand and feel clients’ needs.
Steve has extensive experience gained through a variety of Senior Management/Director and training and development roles held in the international technology private sector. He has a proven track record of delivering tangible results within the areas of leadership, negotiation, customer service, relationship management, organizational change, training, development, and personal career management. He specializes in personality and emotional profiling and has been certified by Paul Ekman International to help people understand their own emotional displays and how to interpret others’ emotions through micro-expressions to help build strong relationships or sound negotiations.
Tomás is co-founder and managing director of InBodyLanguage – International Institute of Body Language, the first training institute specialized in behavior analysis, emotional intelligence, and credibility assessment in Portugal. The institute aims to be a reference in the development of personal and professional communication skills for the Portuguese market.
As a senior trainer with more than 10,000 hours of professional experience, Tomás offers training to a broad public, from individuals such as psychologists, coaches, and HR professionals, to private companies and national agencies. His courses use the latest scientific methods on non-verbal and emotional awareness skills to promote clearer and more genuine communication between people. The knowledge of our own emotions and the emotions of others enables the establishment of deeper relationships, and the chance to freely lead the dialogue into common goals and win-win solutions.
Tomás is a clinical psychologist, a licensed psychotherapist, has an MA in Philosophy and an MSc in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a certified coder in FACS (Facial Action Coding System) and SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis), and develops his researching activity at the Centre for Research on Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, School of Law, University of Lisbon. He also teaches regularly non-verbal communication skills in several Portuguese Universities and Business Schools.
Vincent van der Burg, Ph.D. is the founder and director of UNLP – a leading institute in the field of personal and professional development in The Netherlands. He has over twenty years of experience in organizational and personal development. His expertise covers human psychology, change, NLP, and mindfulness. Vincent van der Burg is the author of several books and articles in this field. His new book, “Book for Coaches” quickly became a bestseller in The Netherlands (soon to be translated in Dutch).
Dr Van der Burg holds a Ph.D. in psychology, and several (master) degrees in business and behavioral economics. He is an accredited NLP master coach, trainer, and key-note speaker around the world. He is a supervisor and member of the faculty of various NLP trainer’s training and coach programs.
As an authorized Paul Ekman Practioner dr. Vincent van der Burg offers a wide range of workshops in the field of non-verbal behavior, behavioral analysis, and social intelligence, all of which are based on the practical application of scientific research.
Xavier provides services in the field of behavioral analysis, profiling, culture and
leadership development, person-oriented research, and training. He is a partner at
Denhartigh & Partners bv since October 1, 2019.
Humour, in-depth context and practical use are characteristics of his working method.
Besides behavioral analyst, predictive profiler, management development trainer, and
guest lecturer, he is active as a certified person-oriented researcher. Research at the
intersection of leadership, integrity, knowledge transfer, and personal development is
pre-eminently his field of work.
As a person, he is creative and driven in finding opportunities for improvement and
always focused on achieving results. This to promote sustainable employment
relationships, the effectiveness of people, teams, and departments. He believes in an
energetic, positive approach.
Yasemin finalized the ‘Trainer Training’ program at Izgoren Academy developing the skills of telling the story and creating and managing training. Furthermore, she finished a professional Coaching Program with ACSTH (Approved Coach Specific Training Hours). Certificate at 212 Coaching Academy that accredited by ICF (International Coach Federation) after that, completed Executive Team Coaching Program with RLaC (Recognized Leader as Coach) which approved by Association For Coaching.
Yasemin has developed the skills of describing emotions, evaluating credibility, reading Micro and Macro Expressions, analyzing Body Language and identifying behaviors at Emotional Intelligence
Academy/EIA Group, then shortly after became a Paul Ekman International Associate.
With an education of International Business and Trade and, more than fifteen years of experience in the domestic and international sales market, Yasemin also works with a global chemical company and managing the United States and Latin America markets.
