Event Schedule

The researcher who helped support the TV show 'Lie to Me' and has trained FBI agents and other high-stakes professionals. Engaging individuals in conversation and interviews whilst keeping the 'noise' from contaminating the quality of the interaction.

The challenges facing children and how Relational Inclusion and Emotional Skills can help.

Exploring how to move beyond a single "purpose" to manage competing priorities. The session focuses on navigating modern work and life by discovering your "constellation" of purpose rather than a "North Star".

World-leading researcher from the University of Chicago on how our gestures reveal thoughts we don't even know we have. How deaf children create language from nothing. Why gesture is a powerful tool for learning, teaching, interviewing, and leadership. Includes live demonstrations: audience experiments with gesture-speech mismatches.

Update on the historical and current hypotheses and the current research around whether EQ and IQ correlate when both are measured objectively.

Most of us know we need to have difficult conversations at work. Yet so few of us do. And hardly any really understand why. In this session, Phil draws on over a decade of research, practice and experience to offer a new lens for understanding what is really at stake when conversations matter most. Using a framework rooted in identity, emotion and the social dynamics of face, people can leave with a new way of seeing themselves, those they work with, and the conversations they have been avoiding. This session is all about shifting our perspective. And once we have, we will see it everywhere.

From prison cells to boardrooms — how does EI operate when the pressure is at its highest? Panellists share their most intense professional experiences and the EI skills that make the difference. Audience Q&A.

Open bar, Pizza and Networking. Informal evening to connect with fellow delegates and speakers. Live music, dancing and karaoke.

An interactive competition across the tables to get you in the mood.

Based on her published research and bestselling book on the Imposter Phenomenon. Why high-achievers doubt themselves and how EI provides the antidote. Practical strategies for psychological courage in the workplace. Includes individual reflection exercise and pair-share.

Four researchers debate the frontier of EI & BA. Topics: AI and emotion recognition, gesture and nonverbal intelligence, the next generation of EI assessment, forensic behaviour analysis, cultural differences, and what the science says about the future of human connection.

Dr Boris Altemeyer (Bangor University / EmotionIntell) joins Mark Kevings from e-conomic, whose MSc research has led him to explore AI's impact on critical thinking and emotional intelligence in the workplace, to ask what AI is doing to our teams - and our responsibility to change it. Facilitated by Dr Cliff Lansley.

The conference chair closes with a powerful synthesis of everything covered across 3 days.