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Richard Newman

Founder & CEO Body Talk


Richard Newman

Richard Newman, CEO, and Founder of Body Talk – Advanced communication training to increase your personal impact and influence

Richard Newman is an award-winning expert in Communication, Storytelling, and Influence.

Richard’s team has been training people across the Lifescience sector for decades. This includes working directly with Key Opinion Leaders to prepare them for congress speeches, training MSLs to have more effective conversation skills with HCPs (including working with 1000s of MSLs worldwide to increase their virtual communication skills), and coaching commercial teams for treatment launches.

Proven results: While working with one pharma client, STEM reviewed the skills of MSLs before and after Richard’s team had trained them on impactful conversations with HCPs. STEM confirmed that the increase in results after the training was the single biggest increase they had ever recorded.

Richard is a guest speaker at London Business School, teaching communication skills and storytelling in the MBA program. He is regularly featured on BBC London Radio, discussing the communication styles of leaders. He has also been featured on SKY TV, in the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and in Forbes magazine. His team has given specialist communication coaching to 100,000 people, across 45 countries, over the last 20 years. Richard’s clients include CEOs, Vice-Presidents, and leadership teams across many industries worldwide

We work with more than 200 leading Life Sciences companies including:

Working with Life Science Access Academy, our company love the variety of the many courses that are on offer. The hour long courses on specific subjects are really useful on Friday lunchtimes for our field teams and gain a lot of interest.

Life Science Access Academy are also super flexible and helpful when it comes to tailoring some additional sessions to our needs.

Marsha Gray, Training Specialist

Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd

Frontier Medical has fully implemented, Life Science Access Academy allowing Sales and Marketing to utilise the system. Maximising on line learning for all remote staff stimulates a culture of self-development giving individuals the accountability and responsibility to broaden their skills set.

Life Science Access Academy training is topical and a good fit for the faced paced healthcare market.

Simon Warden - National Sales Manager

Frontier Medical Group

I have found the training via the Life Science Access Academy to be excellent and I know many of my colleagues have as well.

The content is always kept up to date and there is huge and interesting variety of topics covered. The site is curated in a way that makes it clear and easy to navigate. Also, the staff at Life Science access Academy are friendly and responsive and all the experts are always knowledgeable in their areas.

Richard Edmonds

Gedeon Richter Women's Health

The variety and relevancy of content brings value to many different roles across the healthcare industry.

I have also been overwhelmed by the way the Life Science Access Academy team have accommodated our own business needs, being sensitive yet responsive to helping us since its formation.

Robb Sayers, UK Capability Lead

ViiV Healthcare