Capture More Value
in High-Stake Negotiation

The Inness High-Stakes Negotiation Method helps procurement and business teams reduce avoidable concessions, improve agreement quality, and execute more consistently in critical negotiations.

Built on doctoral research with 1,500 managers | 132% captured value | 128% signed agreements

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Why your teams underperforms
in High-Stakes Negotiation

Too much value is lost before procurement has the chance to negotiate from a strong position. In many organizations, teams enter critical negotiations too late, too unevenly prepared, and too dependent on a few strong individuals.

Too much value is conceded too early

Teams negotiate from a weaker position than they should

Results depend on a few strong individuals

Your Team is brought in too late to shape the discussion

Savings, margin, and deal quality are often weakened by instinct-based decisions, inconsistent preparation, and avoidable concessions.

In asymmetric situations, the other side is often more prepared, more experienced, or more aggressive.

Performance remains too dependent on a handful of experts instead of a repeatable team standard.

By the time you team steps in, requirements, expectations, and the other party positions are already set.

What the method
helps you change

The Inness High-Stakes Negotiation Method is designed to improve negotiation performance where it matters most: financial outcomes, power balance, execution consistency, and procurement influence earlier in the process.

Increase Savings and Financial Outcomes

Rebalance the Power Dynamic

Institutionalize Performance Consistency

Get Involved Earlier and Influence Sooner

Improve captured value, protect margins, and reach stronger commercial outcomes in high-stakes negotiations.

Help teams negotiate from a stronger position by improving leverage, structure, and control in difficult supplier and stakeholder discussions.

Create a repeatable negotiation standard across teams, functions, and experience levels.

Strengthen your team’s role upstream so you can shape decisions before negotiation room is reduced.

Grounded in Research
Built for Business

The Method is built on doctoral research conducted with 1,500 managers and tested across different trainers, groups, and participant profiles. In controlled business settings, it showed observed gains in captured value and signed agreement rates versus alternative approaches.

Online Team Deployment

Online Deployment with 12-Month Reinforcement

Online deployment for teams

Structured reinforcement over 12 months

Tools, simulations, and coaching support

Designed for repeatability across roles and levels

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AI-Supported
but Not AI-Dependent

AI is part of the Method where it improves performance in concrete ways: faster preparation, better option generation, reduced blind spots, and more consistent decision support. But the core value does not come from AI hype. It comes from stronger negotiation logic, better preparation, and more disciplined execution.

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Led by Dr. Stephane Royer
Science and Experience

Dr. Stéphane Royer combines doctoral-level research in negotiation with active business practice. His work helps leaders turn negotiation into a measurable performance capability rather than a one-off learning event.

He works with international organizations that need stronger financial outcomes, better execution consistency, and more rigorous preparation in high-stakes negotiations.