Counter-Elicitation and the intelligence techniques every company should know

If your company operates internationally, handles sensitive IP, or plays a role in critical infrastructure you’re already a target. Foreign intelligence agencies and commercial rivals are no longer just hacking systems. They’re targeting your people, because people are the weakest link in any network and the path to least resistance.

Using advanced conversational techniques known as elicitation, hostile actors can extract valuable information about your internal strategy, product development, supply chains, or decision-making processes without your employees ever knowing it happened. 

From trade shows and conferences to M&A talks and informal social settings, this kind of intelligence collection is happening in real time, against governments and companies, across sectors like tech, defense, energy, pharma, and finance.

This keynote delivers deep, actionable insight into how your organization is exposed and how to build human resilience against elicitation and unwanted intelligence gathering.

Key takeaways:

• How foreign intelligence services and competitors approach your people to gain inside access to business-critical information
• What kind of data is being targeted—and how a single conversation can compromise products, partnerships, or competitive advantage
• Concrete countermeasures to elicitation and how to strengthen internal resilience, protect IP, and close the human intelligence gap in your security strategy.

This is not cybersecurity. This is human resilience.

Real-Time Behavioral Analysis is a powerful framework that enables decision-makers to detect concealed intent, stress responses, and potential deception as it happens, without relying on guesswork, instinct, or outdated lie detection myths.

Based on the Six Channel Analysis System (SCAnS) based on academic research and developed over 12 years by leading experts in physiology, psychology, linguistics, and criminology, this method is already in use by intelligence officers, investigators, and airport security agencies. Now, it’s helping business leaders make sharper calls in boardrooms, negotiations, hiring processes, and high-risk meetings.

Whether you want to expose a spy, protect strategic information, or read the real motives of a negotiation counterpart, Real-Time Behavioral Analysis gives you an edge in any human-to-human interaction. Unlike body language quick-fixes or pseudoscience, SCAnS is a professional system designed for environments where trust must be earned and where the cost of misjudging someone can be measured in millions.

This keynote delivers critical insight and practical application for executives, negotiators, legal teams, HR leaders, and security professionals who operate where stakes are high, and reading people is part of the job.

Key takeaways:

• How to identify behavioural “hot spots” in real time that indicate stress, manipulation, or withheld information
• How to decode micro-expressions, vocal tone, and physiological shifts across six key behavioural channels
• How to embed behavioural analysis into negotiation, due diligence, recruitment, and leadership conversations

This is about making better decisions by understanding human behaviour on a deeper level.

In high-stakes business, success often hinges on one thing: timing. And knowing how someone really feels—before they tell you—can give you a crucial edge. This keynote explores the science of universal facial expressions and micro-expressions, based on the groundbreaking research of Dr. Paul Ekman. Unlike body language, which varies across cultures, micro-expressions are biologically hardwired and globally consistent—making them a reliable source of insight across borders, languages, and roles.

When you learn to spot split-second facial changes, you unlock the ability to detect emotional shifts, hidden reactions, and potential deception—in real time.

Used by intelligence agencies, security professionals, and elite negotiators, this method can now be applied to leadership, hiring, deal-making, and stakeholder management. Whether someone is suppressing a reaction, faking agreement, or unaware of their own emotional state, their face will reveal the truth—if you know what to look for.

Key takeaways:

• How to decode the seven universal emotions and recognize when they appear, even if only for a fraction of a second
• How to distinguish genuine emotional responses from masked or manipulated expression
• How to integrate emotional awareness into negotiations, leadership, and relationship-building across cultures

In business, the most important signal is often the one no one says out loud, but what everyone shows on their face.

Modern threats don’t always wear a sign. In today’s geopolitical climate, malicious intent is often hidden in plain sight—in airports, on business trips, at public events, or even near your headquarters.

This keynote introduces ESA (Environmental Situational Analysis), a detection and awareness methodology built on academic research and adapted from the U.S. Marines’ Combat Hunter Program. It trains professionals to spot behavioural anomalies, movement patterns, and environmental shifts that signal pre-attack behaviour or intelligence-gathering activity.

Whether it’s espionage, surveillance, sabotage, or hostile reconnaissance—the earliest signs are almost always behavioural. ESA teaches you how to see them before it’s too late.

ESA is already used by personnel in defense, intelligence, and national security sectors. But the method is now becoming essential for global businesses operating in high-risk regions, strategic industries, or exposed executive roles.

Key takeaways:

• How to recognize early behavioural indicators of surveillance, targeting, or attack in public and professional environments
• How to apply situational awareness and area profiling to detect when “something is off” before escalation
• How to train teams and executives to operate with confidence and vigilance during travel, events, and daily operations

In a world of complexity and unpredictability, seeing danger coming is no longer a luxury—it’s a leadership responsibility.

In a world where information is power, the ability to ask the right question is your most underrated competitive advantage.

This keynote introduces S.P.O.T. (Setup, Probe, Orient, Terminate & Transition)—a structured, high-impact questioning model developed for military and intelligence operations, now available exclusively through ALPHA Human Resilience.

Built on the foundations of Human Intelligence collection (HUMINT) and developed by former U.S. Department of Defense interrogation instructor James Pyle, the Precision Questioning Protocol (PQP) is used by elite military and intelligence agencies to obtain deep, accurate, and actionable information—under pressure, in motion, and across cultures.

Now, these same techniques are available to business leaders, negotiators, analysts, and executive teams—offering a breakthrough method for extracting insights, building trust, and influencing decisions in real time.

From high-stakes deals and strategic partnerships to internal interviews, stakeholder conversations, and due diligence processes, S.P.O.T. gives your team the tools to see beneath the surface and gain clarity where others rely on assumption.

Key takeaways:

• How to ask questions that uncover intentions, hidden concerns, and unspoken agendas
• How to structure conversations to achieve clarity, accelerate trust, and control direction
• How to operate with discipline and precision in complex, cross-cultural, or high-stakes environments