Former hostage negotiator, Human Interaction expert, and Certified Speaking Professional Jeff Owens is the ultimate choice when your looking for a dynamic, results-driven speaker who captivates audiences and delivers actional strategies to strengthen leadership, resolve conflict, and achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Meeting planners trust Jeff for his professionalism, customization, and ease to work with. Audiences consistently rate him as one of the most impactful speakers they’ve heard thanks to his dynamic stage presence, captivating stories, and actionable takeaways. On stage and screen he delivers with clarity, energy, and relevance.
Use this link to see Jeff's audience reviews and video highlights : https://www.talkadot.com/s/jeffreyowens
Jeff uses his signature framework, The Power of Respect™, developed from decades of high-stakes experience as a hostage/crisis negotiator, police commander, and business executive to deliver real-world strategies that equip leaders to enhance influence and teams to reduce conflict, increase collaboration, and create meaningful change. Jeff's practical strategies empower individuals and organizations to thrive under pressure, reduce stress, and create positive, productive environments.
A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP), and Certified Threat Manager (CTM), Jeff combines unique expertise with exceptional stage presence. His accolades includes induction into both the Hawaii Speakers Hall of Fame and Virtual Speakers Hall of Fame, underscoring his ability to connect with audiences in person and online. In 2024 Jeff was honored to be named Hawaii's "Top Cop" and presented the prestigious Elwood J. McGuire Award from the Hawaii Law Enforcement and Security Coalition.
When it comes to finding a speaker who combines real-world expertise, transformational strategies, and audience impact, Jeff Owens is the ultimate choice for your next event.
Former hostage negotiator, Human Interaction expert, and Certified Speaking Professional Jeff Owens is the ultimate choice when your looking for a dynamic, results-driven speaker who captivates audiences and delivers actional strategies to strengthen leadership, resolve conflict, and achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Meeting planners trust Jeff for his professionalism, customization, and ease to work with. Audiences consistently rate him as one of the most impactful speakers they’ve heard thanks to his dynamic stage presence, captivating stories, and actionable takeaways. On stage and screen he delivers with clarity, energy, and relevance.
Use this link to see Jeff's audience reviews and video highlights : https://www.talkadot.com/s/jeffreyowens
Jeff uses his signature framework, The Power of Respect™, developed from decades of high-stakes experience as a hostage/crisis negotiator, police commander, and business executive to deliver real-world strategies that equip leaders to enhance influence and teams to reduce conflict, increase collaboration, and create meaningful change. Jeff's practical strategies empower individuals and organizations to thrive under pressure, reduce stress, and create positive, productive environments.
A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP), and Certified Threat Manager (CTM), Jeff combines unique expertise with exceptional stage presence. His accolades includes induction into both the Hawaii Speakers Hall of Fame and Virtual Speakers Hall of Fame, underscoring his ability to connect with audiences in person and online. In 2024 Jeff was honored to be named Hawaii's "Top Cop" and presented the prestigious Elwood J. McGuire Award from the Hawaii Law Enforcement and Security Coalition.
When it comes to finding a speaker who combines real-world expertise, transformational strategies, and audience impact, Jeff Owens is the ultimate choice for your next event.
Leadership and Organizational Success: Strategies from a Hostage Negotiator
This dynamic and transformative program is designed to enhance and advance leadership influence and organizational success by challenging and inspiring attendees to redefine their concepts of leadership.
In the high-stakes world of hostage and crisis negotiation the ability to influence people’s behaviors to achieve desired results is of critical importance; likewise in todays business world leaders need to influence others to operate at peak performance, to be...
The Organizational Culture of Civility
This dynamic presentation will educate, motivate, and empower everyone from the entry level employee, to established leaders to apply The Power of Respect to create of an organizational culture of respect that
- Improves Communication
- Reduces Negative Conflict
- Increases Employee Engagement, and Retention
- Lessens Management Headaches
- Results In Higher...
The Power Respect for Leaders
Leadership, in it's simplest expression is the ability to cause others to follow. EFFECTIVE Leadership motives others to WANT to follow the leader and perform at their very best. This unique presentation explains how The Power of Respect translates to real-world actions that increase leadership influence and increase employee compliance, engagement, performance, and retention.
Can be presented...
Leadership Influence: A Hostage Negotiators Insights
Format: Keynote or Breakout
This program is perfect for:
- Leaders and anyone who wants to increase their influence in dealing with other people
The audience will leave with:
- Understanding how to apply The Power of Respect to increase their influence with others
As a police Hostage Negotiator...
Workplace Violence - Preventing the Nightmare Event
Workplace violence in all it's forms is a threat not only to physical safety and emotional well being of individuals; it can dramatically impact an organizations productivity, effectiveness, profitability, and success. This program goes beyond talking about policy and response, and delves into the why of people engaging in violence, what to look for, and how the intentional application of The Power of Respect, learned from my experience as a police Hostage Negotiator, can...
Chaos to Calm: A Hostage Negotiators Insights (De-Escalaton)
This program helps attendees learn and apply the critical elements of the intentional application of The Power of Respect whose interactive synergy, once understood, can resolve many of the communication challenges encountered in our daily lives, reduce conflicts, safely de-escalate difficult, hostile, and aggressive people; and increase individual and organizational safety, productivity and effectiveness. As an additional benefit, these same...
Negotiate More Effectively
Drawing on years of experience in high-stakes situations as a police Hostage nNgotiator, crisis communicator, and later in negotiating deals as a successful business leader; Jeff guides his audiences to us The Power of Respect to gain the insights needed to more effectively and successfully achieve desired outcomes in business and interpersonal negotiations.
Can be presented as a keynote or breakout session in-person or virtually
10 Commandments for Husbands and Fathers
The role of husbands and fathers is critical to the quality of spousal and family relationships and the long term success of children.
Jeff will share insights gained not only from successes, but more so from his mistakes and failues as a husband and father, and the life-changing reality of how The Power of Respect brought him to awareness of the 10 Commandments for Husbands and Fathers.
Can be presented as a keynote...
Virtual Presentations
While all of my programs are based on proven, consistent principles and concepts, I customize every program to meet the unique needs and comminication style of the client audience. Please contact me to discuss how I can best adapt this program to give your audience the best, most...









