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Cara Cunniff is a speaker, facilitator and the founder of The Business of Emotions. After more than a decade leading communication and people work across business and public life, she now helps organisations bring social confidence back into the workplace.

Her signature work, Small Talk Isn't Small, sits underneath a wider framework she calls Connection Intelligence — the practical, learnable behaviours that shape trust, reputation, belonging and opportunity over time. She works with leaders and teams navigating the quiet costs of a generation that has come of age behind screens: meetings that feel higher-stakes, ideas left unsaid, careers shaped by who finds it easier to speak up.

Cara has spoken and run programmes for organisations including Pfizer, BT, Cambridge Judge, Bayes Business School, HMRC, Enterprise Nation and Merlin Entertainments. She is a regular contributor to podcasts and platforms on emotional intelligence, leadership and human connection at work.