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# Gavin Stone
- URL: https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/guests/gavin-stone/
- Published: 2026-08-03T14:17:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T11:48:35.000Z
- Description: Former British intelligence officer and body language expert, co-founder of the Spy Q intelligence-skills training.
- Author: Elliott King
- Tags: guest, Gavin Stone

**Former Intelligence Officer / Body Language Expert**

Gavin Stone is a former British intelligence officer turned body language and behaviour expert. His work translates the tradecraft of deception detection, baselining, statement analysis and influence into tools for boardrooms and everyday life, and with James Foster he co-founded Spy Q, the two-day training that teaches intelligence-agency skills to civilians.

On The BEYOND Podcast he talked with host and producer Aleksandra King through the sixty-second read and the myths it replaces, the spy's guide to sales, linguistic red flags and the psychology of lying, the ICBM breath for pressure, the rail gun mission's leadership lesson, and his animal archetypes of influence: lion, wolf and cheetah.

## Credentials

- Former British intelligence officer
- Body language and deception-detection expert
- Co-founder of Spy Q intelligence-skills training

## Find Gavin

- [Spy Q](https://www.spyq.co.uk)

## Their episode

*Gavin Stone: Spy Secrets of Human Behaviour– Reading People, Power & the Animal Instincts of Influence*, on The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King.

[Listen to the episode](https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/gavin-stone-spy-secrets-of-human-behaviour-reading-people-power-the-animal-instincts-of-influe/)