Jeremy Hurewitz
Jeremy Hurewitz started his career overseas as a freelance journalist for a decade based out of Prague and Shanghai. During that time, he also built and ran the international newspaper association Project Syndicate. After returning to his native New York, Jeremy joined the world of corporate security. An influential but little-known industry, Jeremy works with intelligence officers and other former government officials across a range of services including kidnap-for-ransom consulting, background investigations, executive protection, and many other sensitive assignments. Jeremy is the author of Sell Like a Spy, which helps salespeople and executives to bring spy tradecraft into their salesmanship and communications. Jeremy writes regularly on foreign policy for a wide range of publications and is a policy advisor on National Security for the Joseph Rainey Center. He is a Strategic Advisor to the corporate intelligence firm Interfor International and head of Interfor Academy.
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Sell Like A Spy: Espionage For Everyday Life
Learn a few of the basic components of spy tradecraft such as how they form connections (even with some bad people!), how to physically and verbally mirror someone, how to be a great active listener and how to use the surroundings you’re in and the physical attributes of someone to foster relationships.
Skills Of Social Influence
FBI hostage negotiators and other elite government officials are experts at subtly influencing their targets. Learn how to read body language, detect deception, negotiate different situations and how to calm emotional encounters to better navigate your social encounters.
Use Your Superpowers
Based off a compelling anecdote Jeremy calls “the spy who skied” learn how spies use their passions and interests to relate to those they wish to influence. This workshop draws out key aspects of your personality and helps you to use them to find social success and have more enriching conversations and friendships.
Spies In Disguise
Learn the real story about how spies use disguises and cover stories in their tradecraft. Jeremy then uses that as a springboard to show you how you can put on a disguise of sorts to draw out key aspects of your personality at different moments depending on the situation to use those areas of your personality in a more defined manner to improve your social encounters.