Eolis People Reading Strategies is a negotiation consultancy that uses poker as a metaphor for successful strategies in complex transactions. EPRS emphasizes mastery of people reading skills in tandem with common sense.

EPRS founder Wendeen Eolis began to develop her people reading expertise in the halls of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Advanced piano lessons highlighted the value of "perfect pitch" beyond the keyboard. And the ever-emoting student body of dancers, actors, and musicians offered plentiful opportunities to observe people in all manner of activity.

In a full curriculum of college philosophy studies, Ms. Eolis focused on argumentation and debate. She soon concluded: "The art of persuasion is directly correlated and commensurate with one's people reading skills."

Wendeen Eolis founded the first search firm, exclusively for lawyers on tony Vanderbilt Avenue next door to the Yale Club, in New York City. As a young entrepreneur, she soon learned that her stock in trade would be sizing people up quickly.

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Ms. Eolis is a highly experienced public speaker. She teaches and entertains diverse audiences in all manner of people reading skills using the basic tenets of her 12 Point People Reading System.

Attendees learn learn how to convert basic questions into penetrating probes. They study the "slow-it-down gambits" that effectively create and release tension as a means by which to validate information.

And they develop masterful defenses for coping with insufficient and incomplete information. "I don't know" isn't one of them, but there is a time and a place for the words"I call."

Ms. Eolis demonstrates the critical value of "shifting gears" with serious and humorous anecdotes from conversations, professional negotiations, and poker table exploits.