Pamela Meyer
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{{short description|American author and entrepreneur}}
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Harvard Business School
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| notable_works = Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
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Pamela Meyer is an American author, certified fraud examiner, and entrepreneur. Described by Reader's Digest as "the nation's best known expert on lying," Meyer is the author of the 2010 book Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception.{{cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Maura|title=How to Catch A Liar|url=http://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/how-to-catch-a-liar/|accessdate=August 3, 2015|publisher=Reader's Digest|date=April 2, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Perman|first1=Cindy|title=How to Spot a Liar: A New Year's Resolution for Business|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2011/12/29/how-to-spot-a-liar-a-new-years-resolution-for-business.html|access-date=August 3, 2015|publisher=CNBC|date=December 9, 2011}}{{cite news|last1=Carozza|first1=Dick|title=Spotting those elusive liars|url=http://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294972760|accessdate=August 3, 2015|work=Fraud Magazine|date=May 2012}} Her 2011 TED talk, "How to Spot a Liar," has exceeded 31 million views and is one of the 20 most popular TED talks of all time.{{Cite web |title=The most popular talks of all time {{!}} TED Talks |url=https://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=www.ted.com}}
Meyer is the CEO of Calibrate, a company that trains financial institutions, insurance providers, law firms and human resource professionals on verbal and non-verbal cues to deception, facial micro-expression interpretation, advanced interrogation techniques and information elicitation.{{cite news|last1=Stock|first1=Kyle|title=Wary Investors Turn to Lie Pros|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204467204576047954218653070|accessdate=August 3, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 29, 2010}}{{cite news|last1=O'Brien|first1=Mark|title=Liespotting for insurers: An interview with Pamela Meyer|url=http://www.jiops.com/03/2012/liespotting-for-insurers-an-interview-with-pamela-meyer/|accessdate=August 3, 2015|publisher=Journal of Insurance Operations|date=March 26, 2012}}
Early life and education
Meyer was born and raised in Washington, DC. She majored in psychology and political science at Washington University in St. Louis, and earned a master's degree in public policy as a Coro fellow at Claremont Graduate University.{{cite web|title=Expert on lie detection captivates students at Collection for National Library Week|url=http://www.sidwell.edu/photos/index.aspx?ModuleID=692&LinkID=3383|website=sidwell.edu|publisher=Sidwell Friends School|accessdate=August 3, 2015}} She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.{{cite web|last1=Yoti|first1=J.|title=AN INTERVIEW WITH PAMELA MEYER (HBS'86)|url=http://www.harbus.org/2010/an-interview-with-pamela-4909/|website=harbus.org|publisher=The Harbus|accessdate=August 3, 2015|date=September 27, 2010}}{{cite web|title=Alumni|url=http://coronorcal.org/?s=pamela+meyers|website=coronorcal.org|publisher=Coro|accessdate=August 3, 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Raz|first1=Guy|title=Can You Learn to Spot A Liar?|date=June 20, 2014 |url=http://kuow.org/post/can-you-learn-spot-liar|publisher=NPR|accessdate=August 4, 2015}}
Career
Meyer's early career was focused on media. Prior to attending business school, she co-founded California Community TV Network, a non-profit focused on community action and public broadcasting in Northern California. After receiving her MBA she held senior positions at Electronic Arts, National Geographic, The Ford Foundation and Vestron. In 1995, she founded Manhattan Studios, a New-York based incubator and new media company focused on strategic investments. In 2003, she launched Simpatico Networks, an affinity-based network of websites. Partially funded by Zelnick Media, the network included faith.com and expats.com.{{cite news|title=Zelnick Media News|url=http://www.zelnickmedia.com/news/details/285|accessdate=August 3, 2015|publisher=Zelnick Media News (press release)|date=June 28, 2005}}{{cite news|last1=Variety Staff|title=Broadway Video tapping into tube-side|url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/news/broadway-video-tapping-into-tube-side-111765197/|accessdate=August 3, 2015|work=Variety|date=December 11, 1997}}{{cite web|title=Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/scs2004/speakers.aspx|website=research.microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft|accessdate=August 11, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Simpatico|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=23308309|website=Bloomberg|publisher=Bloomberg Business|accessdate=August 11, 2015}}{{cite book|last1=Friedland|first1=Lewis|title=Civic Innovation in America Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal|date=July 2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=California|isbn=9780520226371|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DMmKYLYYRMC&dq=lewis+friedland+pamela+meyer&pg=PR12|accessdate=August 11, 2015}}
Meyer became interested in the science of deception through a workshop at a Harvard Business School reunion during which a professor detailed his findings on behaviors associated with lying. She subsequently worked with a team of researchers to survey and analyze existing research on deception from academics, experts, law enforcement, the military, espionage and psychology. Meyer also received advanced training in interrogation, microexpression analysis, statement analysis, behavior and body language interpretation, and emotion recognition.{{cite news|last1=Orsini|first1=Patricia|title=Truth Be Told, There's a Business in Spotting Liars|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2011/12/30/truth-be-told-theres-a-business-in-spotting-liars.html|access-date=August 4, 2015|publisher=CNBC|date=December 30, 2011}}{{cite news|title=Pamela Meyer Bio|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-meyer/|accessdate=August 4, 2015|work=The Huffington Post}}
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, based on her training and research, was published by St. Martin's Griffin in 2010. In 2013, she founded Calibrate, a deception detection and insider-threat recognition training center.{{cite web|title=Liespotting|url=http://us.macmillan.com/liespotting/pamelameyer|website=MacMillan (US)|publisher=MacMillan|accessdate=August 11, 2015}}
Personal life
Meyer and her husband, Frederick Kempe, have one daughter. They live in Washington, DC.{{cite web|title=Frederick Kempe biography|url=http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/frederick-kempe|website=Atlantic Council|accessdate=August 11, 2015}}
References
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External links
- [https://pamelameyer.com Pamela Meyer]
- [http://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_liar?language=en How to Spot a Liar ]
- [http://liespotting.com/ Liespotting]
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Category:Businesspeople from Washington, D.C.
Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Category:Harvard Business School alumni