Annie Särnblad

World-Renowned Expert in Microexpressions, Strategic Advisor & Author

Annie Särnblad

World-Renowned Expert in Microexpressions, Strategic Advisor & Author

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Biography

Annie Särnblad is a world-renowned expert in reading facial expressions, an esteemed strategic advisor, author, and speaker. She developed her own easy-to-absorb teaching techniques for facial expressions based on the knowledge she accumulated living in nine countries and studying eight languages through immersion. She is also certified in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS).

Annie has a Masters in Cultural Anthropology and built her career in Asia and Europe as an advisor to Fortune 500s, startups, and family offices. She has taught workshops for 4,500+ CEOs and MDs all over the globe. Annie’s teaching methods involve interactive, playful elements—an approach that works well for busy professionals who often have short attention spans and limited time.

Annie has written two books: Diary of a Human Lie Detector: Facial Expressions in Love, Lust, and Lies, which uses autobiographical pieces and photographs to teach facial expressions; and The Facial Expressions Glossary: Business Edition, which focuses on the 30+ facial expressions to look for during negotiations. Annie has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNBC, 92NY, iHeart Radio, School of Greatness, Reader’s Digest, Entrepreneur, and Success Magazine.

Annie’s well-loved interactive sessions offer fun, laughter, and immediate takeaways. The powerful skills she teaches change lives, both personally and professionally, and wow audiences every time.

Speaker Videos

Annie Sarnblad Speaker Reel

Love on the FACE - Annie SARNBLAD - Microexpressions

PODCAST EP198: Reading Facial Microexpressions for Business and Negotiations with Annie Sarnblad

Speech Topics

Microexpressions in High-Stakes Negotiations

In this interactive session, Annie Särnblad offers fun, laughter, and immediate takeaways relevant to all negotiations, including M&As, deals, and sales. Using her own easy-to-learn methodology, Annie teaches how to recognize specific expressions as well as how to successfully respond mid-negotiation, including when to when to pivot, stay on track, or close a deal.

Microexpressions are the subconscious “leakage” of emotions that make our unspoken feelings visible. They are universal to our species and show on our faces regardless of age, gender, socialization, culture, or geographic location.

Recognizing microexpressions is the very deepest of listening skills. In high-stakes negotiations, understanding what others are feeling in every given moment can mean the difference between a positive outcome and a negative one.

Microexpressions, Lie Detection & Body Language

Join Annie Särnblad on a deep dive into how our words, body language, and microexpressions show our true intentions. Knowing when others are genuine and when they are trying to deceive is instrumental to making healthy, productive decisions in our personal and professional lives.

Microexpressions are the subconscious “leakage” of emotions that make our unspoken feelings visible. They are biological and universal to our species and show on our faces regardless of age, gender, socialization, culture, or geographic location. Microexpressions precede the thought process and are almost impossible to suppress.

In lie detection, we look for a mismatch between the words and the microexpressions, as well as specific body language, word choice, and tone clues that indicate deception.

In this interactive session, Annie Särnblad offers fun, laughter, and immediate takeaways for learning lie detection. Using her own easy-to-learn methodology, Annie teaches how to recognize specific expressions as well as how to successfully manage potentially deceptive conversations.

Microexpressions in Management & Leadership

In this interactive session, Annie Särnblad offers fun, laughter, and immediate takeaways relevant to anyone in a leadership position. Annie teaches key facial expressions helpful in all face-to-face interactions, including negotiations, team building, and strengthening connections with employees, clients, business partners, and board members.

Reading microexpressions helps leaders see what lies beneath the surface so they can better identify and solve real issues. In addition, when we create environments where we recognize and make space for thoughts and feelings without judgment, we can show up as our true selves. Leaders who recognize underlying problems and establish authentic relationships are better able to build creative, inclusive, and productive professional environments.

Microexpressions in Love & Business

Recognizing microexpressions helps us make safer, healthier decisions about who to trust in romantic, platonic, and professional relationships. Microexpressions are involuntary and precede the thought process, so they show us both what someone is feeling and who they really are.

Reading microexpressions is the deepest of listening skills. Microexpressions are the subconscious “leakage” of emotions that make our unspoken feelings visible. They are universal to our species and show on our faces regardless of age, gender, socialization, culture, or geographic location.

In this interactive session, Annie Särnblad offers fun, laughter, and immediate takeaways. The skills Annie teaches focus on connection and protection relevant to both our personal and professional relationships. Reading microexpressions improves our communication and connection with loved ones and shows us who around us needs extra love and support and who to absolutely stay away from.

Testimonials

“Annie Sarnblad’s Session at YPO’s The Edge was a huge success! The members loved her and rated her as one of the top speakers they’d heard. She is now one of the most requested speakers for events. She is fantastic!”

- Learning Director, Young Presidents’ Organization

“This is really powerful. This gives you information and intel to understand if you are safe in relationships or if you’re in a good position at your work, if you are surrounded by good friends who are well intended. Teaching your kids these things, these tools are extremely powerful. So I’m really grateful that you’re creating this and finally revealing this to the world… It’s going to help a lot of people, so thank you for this work. I’m very grateful for you.”

- Lewis Howes, School of Greatness

“I have invited Annie to speak and witnessed Annie speaking at multiple events and in different categories and businesses in my life. She always wows the audience and I’m regularly asked by clients to be introduced to her for their own follow up. She is fantastic.”

- National Senior Managing Director Alliance Bernstein, Board Member Cherokee Nation Businesses

“I would like to wholeheartedly endorse Annie as a speaker for any event. I have had the pleasure of inviting her to speak at both corporate workshops and conferences, as well as in academic settings. Her insightful and engaging contributions have always been a high point for both business participants and university students. In addition to the uniqueness of her topic, the way Annie interacts with an audience to make them laugh, relax, and learn is masterful. Furthermore, she is a joy to work with, on stage and off stage.”

- Investor in Deep/Frontier-Tech Ventures, Strategic Advisor

“I have seen Annie and worked with her at multiple events. It is fun to watch the audience mesmerized by what she is teaching them! It is no surprise that she gets high ratings at every event. I am now working to get her to speak at my new organization!”

- Executive Director at ACG (Association for Corporation Growth) Chicago

“Annie has generously spent her time presenting to my high school psychology classes for years now. She shares her personal experiences and how she found her field and trained to be an expert in microexpressions. Her talk is one of the students' absolute favorite experiences of the year. Annie's presentation is fascinating, funny, and keeps her listeners constantly engaged.”

- Teacher at Weston Public Schools