Welcome to Gallery of Ideas “Connect” #GOIconnect series! In this episode, #PatriciaCurty interviews the legendary #MarkBowden, connecting from Toronto, Canada.   CONTENTS   01:33 Mark’s Personal Story  04:16 The Importance of Being Inauthentic  07:36 Great Togetherness | Great Competitiveness  13:57 Truth and Lies - What People are Really Thinking  18:47 Dr. Albert Mehrabian | The 7% - 38% - 55% Rule  21:50 How to WoW an Audience  27:30 The Brazilian Gestures Challenge   ABOUT MARK BOWDEN  Mark Bowden is an expert in body language, human behaviour and communication. A world-renowned body-language thought-leader.   Mark Bowden is the founder of TRUTHPLANE®, a communication training company that offers a unique methodology for anyone who has to communicate with impact to an audience. With his cutting-edge system of nonverbal communication techniques, he instantly helps audiences become more confident, collaborative, and credible in their communication – invaluable for anyone in leadership, sales, or teams.   Mark is voted #1 in the world’s top 30 Body Language Professionals for both 2014 and 2015 by Global Gurus for his world class communication techniques, with which he trains leading business people, teams, presidents and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and Prime Ministers of G7 powers. Mark is on faculty as business presentation trainer for The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA, ranked #1 in the world by The Economist. He is also President of the National Communication Coach Association of Canada.