👑 While the world is scrambling and spending millions to protect our data from hackers, what are you doing, in your own circle of influence, to protect yourself and your business from deception that is closer to home? I'm talking about the daily interactions with people where obtaining information that is truthful is critical - hiring decisions, meetings, negotiations, buying decisions, investigations, workplace issues and more.

👑 As children, we figure out how to ask QUESTIONS, soon after we learn to talk. But mastering the art of CONSCIOUS QUESTIONS in a busy adult world is more complex. I know for certain that questions are often taken for granted, used without thought, misunderstood, misused or undervalued. 

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY TOWARD TRUTH

"The suspect sat there calmly watching my fellow freshly graduated Constable partner and I search our brain for our newly gained knowledge in an effort to extract an admission of theft. At the back of Myer department store, at the age of 22, I realised that my shiny new Police badge and crisply pressed blue uniform wasn’t helping me much to uncover an admission from the suspected shoplifter.

The suspect told me he didn’t steal the jacket. I was sure he did. I wanted truth and all I got was calmness, a look of contempt and more lies. I remember realising at that moment that they had taught us much in the Police Academy about ‘what’ we needed to obtain in an interview (points of proof), but both my partner and I were lacking in sufficient skills when it came to the ‘how’.

That experience piqued my interested in truth, lies, questions and interviewing skills. It made sense that decades later, after leaving the Police Force and then working in senior corporate roles, that I co-founded a business that was all about truth, lies and human behaviour"