J. Paul Nadeau is a negotiations expert and business negotiations and conflict resolution keynote speaker. A highly decorated former police officer who had an exemplary career for over thirty years, Nadeau specialized in hostage and crisis negotiations, homicide investigations, interrogations, polygraph testing and counter-terrorism. He was also a peacekeeper in Jordan, heading up an international group of trainers before becoming an advocate and counsellor to the Iraqi cadets, and survived an incursion by terrorists.

He is an admired international keynote speaker and lecturer, specializing in how to successfully negotiate in business and in life and on how to turn conflict into opportunity. He is Canada’s most highly recognized hostage negotiator. He is a regular guest on CNN, CBC’s The National, CBC World News, Global News and CP24 on topics of terrorism and hostage crises and was the closing speaker at Toronto TEDx conference in 2015. Nadeau lives in Toronto. Visit him at JPaulNadeau.com.