Turn Your Next Conference into a Game-Changing Experience. Book Steve as your Keynote Speaker.
Transform Your Team’s Perception and Performance
Steve van Aperen isn’t your average keynote speaker—he’s a world-renowned expert in human behavior, deception detection, and body language analysis. With over two decades of experience training intelligence agencies, corporate leaders, and law enforcement across 17 countries, Steve delivers powerful insights that transform how professionals negotiate, interview, and lead. Whether you’re running a conference, corporate seminar, or leadership retreat, Steve empowers your audience with practical tools they can apply immediately to gain a critical edge.
Real-World Expertise, Not Just Theory
Event managers and corporate planners are always searching for speakers who deliver value beyond motivation—and that’s where Steve excels. Known as The Human Lie Detector, he’s conducted over 700 keynotes and worked with high-profile cases, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. His presentations aren’t just engaging—they’re backed by real-world, high-stakes experience. When Steve speaks, audiences listen—and more importantly, they walk away with skills that matter.
Captivate, Engage, and Educate
Steve’s delivery is electric. With a mix of jaw-dropping stories, live demonstrations, and interactive insights, he commands the room from start to finish. Your attendees won’t just sit and listen—they’ll be part of a memorable, high-energy experience that leaves them thinking long after the applause ends. Whether it’s decoding microexpressions or detecting the subtle signs of deception, Steve’s sessions are a masterclass in attention and influence.
Immediate ROI for Your Organisation
Booking Steve isn’t just an investment in a speaker—it’s an investment in your people. From HR teams learning to identify dishonest candidates to sales professionals mastering the non-verbal cues of client hesitation, Steve equips attendees with skills that improve results and reduce costly errors. The takeaways are actionable, measurable, and directly tied to better communication, decision-making, and trust-building within any organisation.
Trusted by Global Brands and Law Enforcement Alike
When world-leading companies like CEO Clubs of New York, BHP, Qantas, NAB, ANZ, Governments and Intelligence Agencies trust Steve to deliver results, you know you’re bringing in a speaker with unparalleled credibility. His cross-industry experience means he tailors each presentation to your audience’s needs, delivering content that resonates with professionals from all sectors. Steve doesn’t just speak at your audience—he speaks to them, in their language, solving real challenges.
Make Your Event Unforgettable
If you’re looking for a speaker who will elevate your conference, ignite your training day, and give your attendees an unforgettable edge, Steve van Aperen is your go-to expert. Booking Steve means giving your audience more than inspiration—it means equipping them with the tools to see what others miss. Ready to bring Steve to your stage? Your next event deserves nothing less.
With a vast array of experience, including specialised training from the FBI, LAPD and the US Secret Service, Steve offers a truly unique and invaluable perspective. Having worked on 87 homicide cases and two serial killer investigations, his insights are unmatched. Witness firsthand as Steve unravels the world of human behaviour, body language and detecting deception, leaving your audience spellbound and enlightened.
Can you read what your customers and clients are really thinking? Imagine having the ability & skill sets to read people like a book during the sales process, meetings, interviews, negotiations and even how to detect deception. Or maybe you want to use the power of persuasion and influence to get your message across clearly and effectively.
Whether you want a fun conference energiser, plenary or closing speaker Steve will get your audience pumped, laughing and wanting more. Start or end your conference with a bang whilst leaving an impressionable and lasting memory.
Steve has spoken at over 700+ conferences and seminars throughout the world attended by thousands of delegates. He delivers training programs and one on one training to CEO’s, government departments, executives, fund managers, analysts, recruiters, sales teams, managers, investigators, the finance sector, media and many others.
Reading your customers and identifying what they are feeling or thinking requires a unique skill set. When human beings try to suppress an emotion it will often leak out and contradict the spoken word. Effective interviewers, recruiters & sales staff all need to identify the 7 behavioural indicators that are displayed by all human beings.
To do so consistently requires a novel approach. And the approach Steve developed — known as the “60 second profiling technique” — has remarkable applications in business and life.
Decode Your Customer: The Hidden Psychology that Drives Profits!
Learn to decode hidden signals, build instant trust, and drive profits — in just one unforgettable keynote.
Most businesses lose deals not because of poor products — but because they miss the emotional cues customers are giving them. Customers hesitate. They resist. And your team never sees it coming.
But what if they could?
Introducing Steve van Aperen,
Steve energises the room during a keynote presentation. In this dynamic 60–75 minute session, he reveals how to decode the hidden signals customers send through their micro-expressions, body language, speech and emotional cues. Attendees learn to translate these subtle non-verbal cues into strategies that build trust and boost profits. Steve’s interactive style—filled with real-world examples and live demonstrations—ensures that every insight is engaging and immediately actionable. By the end of the keynote, your team will be equipped to “read” clients more effectively and tailor their approach for better outcomes meaning increased sales and profits.
In this electrifying 60–75 minute keynote, Steve reveals:
- How to read your customers
- The micro-expressions that scream “I don’t trust you” — and how to fix it
- The fastest way to build instant rapport with any client or customer
- How to identify when a person (customer/stakeholder) is telling you the truth in sales, negotiations, and interviews
- The psychology of influence and how it fuels your bottom line and much more…
This isn’t a keynote. It’s an immersive, high-impact experience that combines neuroscience, real-life case studies, live audience demonstrations, and tools your team can use immediately.
Transformational Outcomes:
- Close more deals by recognising what buyers aren’t saying
- Build trust rapidly with body language that creates connection
- Empower leaders to make better, faster, more informed decisions
- Boost sales and service performance with psychological precision
Four Tailored Packages for Maximum Impact
1. Foundation Package – $12,500 AUD
Perfect for team motivation, conferences & training workshops
- 60–75 minute keynote (as above)
- Live audience demonstrations
- Industry-relevant examples and case studies
- Post-event summary of the Top 5 actionable takeaways
2. Growth Package – $18,000 AUD
Ideal for organisations seeking executive insight & leadership development
Everything in Foundation PLUS:
- 90-minute executive strategy session for leadership teams
- Private Q&A to apply techniques to your business environment
- Branded Customer Decoder Toolkit PDF for all attendees
3. Transformation Package – $35,000 AUD (Most Popular)
Best for companies ready to shift culture, leadership & revenue results
Everything in Growth PLUS:
- Half day masterclass for sales, service or leadership teams
- Interactive group exercises & real-world scenario training
- 30-day follow-up Zoom coaching call
- Your company logo featured on workshop assets
- Priority access for future events
- Copy of “Unlocking Customer Gold. How to understand your customer and Skyrocket your Profits”
4. The Ultimate “Corporate Package” – (Pricing upon request)
Ready to equip your team with a game-changing edge to skyrocket profits?
The Ultimate Corporate Package is not just a masterclass but a Business Transformation Strategy.
This approach is different because:
- It’s based on neuroscience and behavioural analysis not hype
- It’s proven — This approach uses behavioural psychology to make customers act
- It creates permanent skill shifts, not temporary inspiration
- It delivers ROI through elevated communication, faster trust, increased sales and better decision-making.
- Initial one-to-one with Steve personally and the CEO to strategise delivery outcomes and pain points.
- Creating an improvement strategy specific and unique to your business
- The creation and delivery of 2 x 1day workshops to sales personnel and executive teams
- Copies of “Unlocking Customer Gold. How to understand your customer and Skyrocket your Profits” for all trained staff.
- Follow up assessment session.
“The consistent message from the 600 delegates who attended was their desire to hear more from Steve”
To make your event a success the keynote speaker you select has to be the right fit for your organisation or conference theme. When a company employs a speaker for their event they expect several things; value for money, a return on investment, audience relevance, to be entertained and to walk away with several key take-aways. These key ingredients are crucial to the success of any conference.
Having presented hundreds of keynote presentations at seminars, conferences and events world-wide with audiences ranging from 80 to 4,000 attendees Steve is committed to making your conference or training day a memorable and talked about event.
“Steve will captivate and engage your audience. His presentations are interactive and hilarious”
- DEVELOP WORLD-CLASS OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS
- READ BODY LANGUAGE WITH UNCANNY ACCURACY
- COMMUNICATE WITH MORE VERVE AND IMPACT
- EXCEL IN INTERVIEWS, SALES CALLS AND NEGOTIATIONS
- BUILD RAPPORT & TRUST WITH CUSTOMERS
Steve's most popular keynotes
How can we develop better leaders in my organisation? How do we improve our customer service reputation? How can we hire better employees? How do we close more sales?
- Read your clients and watch profits soar
- How to detect deception & read body language in business
- The 7 Winning methods that build trust and increase profits.
- Why women make better liars and men have no idea
- How to build resilience and strength during times of adversity and change
What people are saying…
A measurable return on investment
As a highly sought after speaker, trainer, media commentator, author, behavioural analyst and executive business coach, Steve travels the world teaching executive teams, staff and CEO’s how to read their customers, detect deception and watch profits soar. Let Steve show you how to read these verbal and non-verbal cues and prosper in business, sales, meetings, recruitment interviews and negotiations
Discover why Fortune 500 and Australia’s top 100 companies have Steve present as their plenary keynoter at their conferences and coach their senior executive teams.
- Steve shows organisations, sales teams, executives, CEO’s and staff how to read customers and watch profits soar!
- Learn how to use Steve’s 4 step plan to lead & win at the negotiation table. If you are not using Steve’s unique “60 Second Profiling Technique” you may be missing out on lost sales opportunities!
- Learn how to read what your clients & customers are really thinking by analysing body language, facial and micro-expressions during the sales or interviewing process.
- Steve has worked with numerous planners and event managers over the years and understands the importance of a well-organised event and how it reflects on event planners, businesses and client’s alike.
- By providing informative, interactive and dynamic presentations, Steve connects and engages with his audiences that lead to repeat bookings.
- Steve takes his audience on a journey. Having assisted police on 81 homicide and serial killer investigations Steve knows how to read people.
- Steve uses humour, fascinating real life experiences and stories that will have your audience wanting more.
- Steve is an energetic, passionate and enthusiastic speaker who individually tailors every presentation to suit each client.
- Steve’s presentations are relevant and entertaining whilst providing a handful of take-aways that can be put into practice immediately.
