Simon Horton is the founder of Negotiation Mastery and has spent 15 years as a Negotiation Skills trainer working with an impressive blue-chip client list.

He has taught hostage negotiators, he is a Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College and has worked with many other organisations including the British Army, ExxonMobil, Nike and Johnson & Johnson.

His first book, ‘Negotiation Mastery’, was published in September 2012 and the second, ‘The Leader’s Guide to Negotiation’ was published by The Financial Times in 2016.

Outside of his career, he has performed as a trapeze artist and as a stand-up comedian. Though not at the same time.