Chip Massey

Chip Massey is a former FBI special agent, hostage negotiator and counterintelligence investigator who spent more than two decades operating at the highest levels of national security. Massey began his career at the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office on foreign counterintelligence and espionage squads, working alongside the CIA and other intelligence agencies to identify foreign spies, expose Americans acting against their country and build federal cases that protected national security.

Massey received advanced training in human behavior, surveillance and interviewing techniques and conducted investigations in multiple countries in both official and covert capacities. He later became one of the FBI's elite hostage negotiators, resolving life-and-death situations where reading human behavior was not a skill, it was survival.

Massey is co-founder of Convincing Company and co-author of the book "Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation." He brings FBI-caliber insight on human behavior under pressure, crisis communications, negotiation, deception detection and leadership decision-making to C-suite executives, boards and organizational leaders worldwide. His proprietary frameworks, including Forensic Listening, Pattern of Life profiling and the 22 Second Reading, translate the most demanding profession in the world into immediately actionable business intelligence. Corporate clients have included Facebook/Meta, Samsung, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Lockheed Martin and Johnson & Johnson. Massey has appeared on CNN, Fox News, NBC, CBS and BBC and has trained leaders at West Point, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Georgetown.