How to read body language with Steve Van Aperen the Human Lie Detector
Keynote & Conference Speaker Steve van Aperen

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.
 
What does this package include:
 
  • 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”

Steve's most popular keynotes

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What people are saying…

“Steve is an extremely interesting individual…He is an expert in the non-verbal cues to look for when people may be saying one thing but thinking something else. He specializes in reading and analysing distress signals and facial expressions. I would certainly love to have him by my side in the business world, where his powers of observation would be a fantastic resource.”
Steve Waugh AO
Former Australian Cricket Captain Australian of the Year 2004
Steve your presentation to the CEO Clubs of New York City was amazingly informative and entertaining. It is not often that we have a speaker that can keep command of the room the way you did today at the Harvard Club. The buzz in the room was that you were one of the best speakers we have ever had. Please consider visiting with us again any time you are in the New York City area - I can't thank you and Renee enough for adding tremendous value to the club and it's members.
Gary M. Anzalone
CEO Clubs New York City
“On behalf of Australia Post, I would like to thank you for presenting at our Platinum Forum on 27 March, 2009. Your talk on “Detecting Fraud by Analysing Behaviour” was a great hit with our guests. I particularly enjoyed the way you involved the group throughout the presentation. The Platinum Forum has been running in Sydney for several years and, thanks to your interesting session, looks destined for the same success in WA”.
Dean Nalder
State Commercial Manager Australia Post
Steve’s training was exceptional. It was one of the best courses that I have attended.
Gosken Kalkarla
NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages

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.

How to read body language with Steve Van Aperen