Meet Dr Matt Todd
Proven communication strategies
Matt turns real world crisis experience into practical tools, helping leaders communicate with confidence, build trust, and perform at their best.
Consulting. Speaker. Negotiation Specialist.
A former hostage and crisis negotiator, Matt has operated in the most demanding environments imaginable – from kidnap for ransom and cyber-extortion cases to advising the UK Government’s Crisis Group (COBR) on international terrorism incidents. His calm, strategic communication in moments of chaos has helped save lives and restore control.
Today, Matt brings those same lessons to the corporate world, turning the art of crisis negotiation into practical tools for leaders, teams, and individuals.
Clarity under pressure delivered through proven communication frameworks shaped by real crisis response experience.
30+ years of operational insight applied to help leaders make confident, high impact decisions when it matters most.
Rapid trust building that strengthens relationships and supports high performance team cultures.
Strategic conflict navigation that turns difficult conversations into productive, solution-focused outcomes.
Behavioural intelligence expertise that helps teams understand people, reduce friction, and communicate with purpose, ensuring large, complex teams stay aligned and effective.
Resilient communication systems embedded into organisations to ensure consistency, clarity, and calm during uncertainty.
Unlock Exceptional Leadership with Matt
When you bring Matt into your organisation, you’re not just getting a speaker, you’re gaining a strategic partner who equips people to lead, influence, and perform at their best. Matt translates the art of crisis negotiation into practical tools leaders can use every day: communicating with confidence, building trust quickly, influencing difficult stakeholders, and staying composed during uncertainty or change. Whether through a keynote, immersive team training, or one-to-one mentorship, Matt helps businesses transform how they think, listen, and connect. Turning exceptional communication into their greatest competitive advantage.
View Services
Experience & Expertise
Ready to Discover the Power of Calm Leadership?
Trusted by Global Organisations and Industry Leaders
Wow!...what an invaluable experience I found the training to be. It has left an imprint on me - I found myself experiencing interactions with people in a restaurant and shop yesterday evening with a new level of empathy and insight. I am really excited about developing my negotiation and communication skills, by using the tools you shared with us. Thank you for giving me this gift.
Getting into the detail of human thought process and rational/emotional thinking is something we can absolutely relate to in Construction and we deal with different people with different values daily. Understanding clients and subcontractors values can certainly help us manage (manipulate them) for the benefit of the business.
Just wanted to thank you for the training last week. Probably the best course I have been on, a real eye opener with a lot of positive applications. Definitely something we should do more of in my opinion.
Love the way in which the course was aimed at getting us to think of ways in which we can get the best out of our supply chain, consultants and colleagues. I loved the enthusiasm of Matt and some of the ideas he brought to the table for us, extremely simple yet seem very, very effective. The session was a real eye opener in the respect that appearance, first impressions and approach has on the people we meet & work with.