Cues Reviews

Hi Vanessa, I've spent the last few days consuming Cues and wanted to reach out to say THANK YOU! It has been a game changer for someone (whilst very confident), struggles occasionally when having one to one conversations ... notably having an almost tick like reaction when I 'get in my own head' Something that I've been working on stopping for about 5 years There are tips and insights in Cues that have already helped me in ways that I am eternally grateful for If you're ever speaking in England, or our paths cross I hope to be able to thank you in person

"Warmth" and "Competence" two concepts that Vanessa Van Edwards proposed that we should all make their use and balance aware according to what we want to communicate. CUES is definitely a practical tool to improve the communication we emit, in addition to Vanessa expressing it in a very eloquent and digestible way. Without a doubt it is a book that I like to recommend because throughout it we realize that she puts into practice everything she mentions. CUES is a book that you should not miss and that will help you a lot at all levels, whether you want to do business or look for a job.

Hi Vanessa and team, I was absolutely delighted to come home to your handwritten letter this evening! I wanted to take a moment to thank you! Cues so far has been THE only book I've recommended and bought for colleagues, friends, and clients. I haven't got as much value from the first couple of chapters from a book since I read What If? I'm 25% of the way through and have booked in a global presentation to deliver on what I have learnt from Cues, to our Customer Success and Relationship Management division. It would be awesome if you could come say hi or do a quick game like you did in your masterclass, which was AMAZING by the way. Your passion, hard work and thirst for knowledge has resulted in one of the best books I've seen published in our generation, in my humble opinion. I am so excited to see your continuing success for you and the lovely team at Science of People. You truly are remarkable!! Kind regards, Chris

Hi Vanessa, I recently came across your book Pequeños gestos, gran impacto and was immediately struck by how practical yet profound the premise is. The idea that the smallest gestures our tone, body language, and expressions can open or close doors in both leadership and everyday life feels incredibly empowering. Many of us focus on big strategies, but you've shown how influence often begins with subtle signals. What stood out to me most is how the book bridges confidence and connection. The way you frame charisma not as something people are simply "born with," but as a skill that can be cultivated through intentional cues, feels both refreshing and actionable. I can see why this would be indispensable not only for entrepreneurs and professionals, but for anyone who wants to build trust and presence in their daily interactions. It makes me wonder when you began researching and teaching about human behavior, did you already know gestures and micro-signals would become such a central focus, or did the importance of these "small details" reveal itself gradually in your work? Kind regards, Joao Merlinda

I love CUES. It's one of my top favorite books, and I use it for my brand photography clients to look and feel more charismatic in their photos! It's a gamechanger.

Just finished reading CUES by Vanessa Van Edwards and it was FABULOUS. One of the best books I have read in a while and look forward to hearing her speak at San Diego Women's Week. Everyone that attends LIVE will get a FREE copy. www.sdwomensweek.com

Hacks to boost your effectiveness: #charisma is the correlation of warmth and competence - what a great read on improving #pitches, #negotiation, and #relationships. Read others more easily and improve your own #communication Thank you Vanessa Van Edwards - awesome book!

I'm fascinated by the charisma cues we all put out. This #mouthshrug is particular, which we see in so many photos of influential people. #leadership #culture - thanks Vanessa Van Edwards this is a great read!

@vvanedwards thank you for Cues—I absolutely loved it! And I’m confident it will help become a more captivating presenter!

You are so incredible Vanessa! Your tips on cues are really helpful, and I didn’t realise for a long time how much impact the slightest change in tone or a little shift in body language can have.

@Vanessa Van Edwards Yes I'm loving it!! It's incredible how big of an influence body language has on everyday life, I've been using nodding and fronting with clients at my real estate agency and it has worked wonders, everybody is so friendly when your body language is on point. We really are still apes at the end. Thank you Vanessa, all the best!

Vanessa- I want you to know that you have significantly changed my life! I am obsessed with your book on cues and I tell everyone to read it and look you up! I have been so intrigued by the science of people now. Your information is so powerful!

When I read this book, I was impressed by how simple yet detailed and structured it was written. Tips, insights, and helpful advice on communications in a plenty variety of situations. My recommendations for those who would like to improve their skills. #communications #like #cuesbook

Cue by cue... tip by tip... I am feeling more confident understanding others and communicating in a way that makes an impact. Thank you @vvanedwards for your MANY videos on human behavior! I can't get enough. #communication #userexperience #ux #behavior

How closely is body language related to your overall success? Very closely, if you are to believe Vanessa Van Edwards and read her latest book Cues. I read this book, and I’d happily recommend it to you for the following reasons: 01: The book is absolutely easy to read, and what makes it better is that the principles explained and ideas shared are just as easy to implement. The suggestions made, on how you can improve your cues, and how will it impact your growth won’t make you feel like you have to learn a new skill. It will definitely need practice to get used to, for sure. 02: All points mentioned, are broken down and explained with logic, reasoning and Vanessa does a great job by being intuitive and answering your questions, as you may think of them, as you read the book. This speaks volumes about her prowess, reflects on her credibility and is a reflection of all the years she has put in honing her craft. 03: The best part about the book. The ideas mentioned here are not just applicable in face to face meetings. Vanessa gives you tons and tons of ideas on how you can improve your profile pictures to get more (and serious) leads/connections on social media, ideas to improve conversions on your landing pages, and ways to seem more approachable and authoritative even when you’re conducting/ attending online meetings. 04: Examples shared in the book (and there are plenty) of events that are televised, or the way people behaved during interviews makes the book so much easier to relate to. This is definitely one book that I’d recommend and revisit, every once in a while. What are some books that you read recently and would like to recommend? What book are you reading right now?

📚 As a recovering SOCIALLY AWKWARD 🤓 person I highly recommend CUES. What I FEEL ON THE INSIDE doesn't always line up w/how I COMMUNICATE on the outside. Let @vvanedwards help you in ANY social setting. 💪 Super practical & to you help in your leadership & relationships! ❤️

Wow Ok, I rarely if ever write responses like this , but I had to do this. I work in a hospital, and tried out the eye cue( slight narrowing of eyes) . Even with a mask on , the response has been out of this world.. I consider this to be a superpower,, woman spontaneously stop to chat, smile back , and say hi . I practiced first in the mirror , and looked like I was frowning, had to relax to get it right, and OMG phenomenal Thanks for the great content paul

my ten year old just finished reading Cues, so we’re watching with interest to see what might come of your ponderings :-) Keep up the lovely work.

So cool! Social cues have such an impact on our lives in an interdependent world! 🌍 would love to give this book a read, Vanessa! 🙌🙌

Vanessa Van Edwards Cues is one of the best books on the list. Think Again and Relentless are also good but Cues has more practical information you can use right now.

Eric Flathers thanks for point that out, you are absolutely right. For immediate implementation Cues is THE BEST! It is so helpful, I will likely be reading and working on this skill for years...

Vanessa’s books are so well written and I love the many examples that she gives to illustrate the research on body language. She writes in an easy to read style and communicates her findings with personal stories, photos and social experiments. I regularly refer to her work in my business. I highly recommend “Cues”.

The book cues is dangerously underrated. Nonverbal communication is the single most important social dynamic to understand, but I don't think most people quite understand "why". I just wanted to say this because I really think the information in the book cues, is more impactful to our day to day lives than the information in any other psychology book I've read in the past 3-4 years. I know this is off topic, but I just wanted to take the opportunity to let you know I see what you're doing. Not to mention the way you teach people these skills is designed to make them experiential/ applicable. If there's any way I could reach out to you and ask you a bit about The Science of People lab, maybe I could be useful to your team. THIS^^ is exactly what my skillset and education are made for. If you have any need for someone with a background in educational and social psychology, please reach out to me! Best of luck on the new year and keep up your great work!

I've been listening to the audiobook, "Cues - Small Signals, Incredible Results", by Vanessa Van Edwards. This book is one of the best professional development books I've read in awhile... ...I still have Patrick Lencioni's book Working Genius on the lineup next (a big thanks to Dave Stachowiak for that introduction...and Dave - connect with Vanessa Van Edwards too...she would make for a fabulous interview!). Van Edwards gives such great advice and tips for how to effectively communicate with BOTH introverts and extroverts...and how the non-verbal cues we signal let others know if we're interested in the other person/conversation or not. It's FASCINATING. I'm curious...which personality type do you lean towards - introvert, extrovert or a combination? I find the older I get - the more introverted I become. That's likely a bi-product of me learning more about myself and the types of people that really light me up too.

Steve Kaminski Cues was my first foray into Vanessa’s work. I liked it so much I bought copies for everyone on my team! Invaluable! Vanessa Van Edwards I’m so glad to have found you!

I have to give a massive shout out to Vanessa Van Edwards for writing an amazing book, "Cues." I used the chapters on sounding more confident pretty heavily as source material for this episode. I can't recommend "Cues" enough. It is a really great book with a ton more content. I just scratched the surface in this episode. She's got a ton of great YouTube content too so you can hear some of the examples that I talked about in this episode. Cues might be one of the most beneficial books for UX professionals to read to understand how to prevent and influence in a more convincing way. I really do believe that you can't build great software without great relationships. And Vanessa's books and her content help us overcome some of our fear of speaking in meetings, building relationships with stakeholders, and speaking with more confidence. Thanks again for the shout out! I really appreciate it!

I like this book very much 😀 It's the most important book for me I have read in my life Thank you so much 💖

My husband hates reading. He said it was pushed on him too much as a kid in school. I've always been a voracious reader and have been telling him for 23 years he just needs to find books that interest him. He lost his job three months ago and realized he needs to work on his communication, especially with job interviews. He shocked me by going this past weekend, unprompted by me, to get his first library card at the age of 48 to check out your "Cues" book. I had read it a few months ago and had shared enough with him about it that it apparently piqued his interest! He started reading the book as soon as he got home from the library. I was like...😮. I couldn't believe it! He had an interview yesterday and talked about how he was sure to lean in and do the slow triple nods. He was actually excited talking about the interview, and he usually dreads them like most people dread death! He has even taken the book with him to his temp job the past two days so he can read on his lunch break. Vanessa, you may just have finally gotten through to my non-reading husband that books can be fun, informative, and not all drudgery like he thought they were. You have truly worked magic!

After hearing Vanessa on Mel Robbins’ podcast, I knew I needed to read this book. It was fascinating!! I never thought about the power of my non verbal cues. I have been trying out her ideas all week and it is crazy how well they work. I highly recommend this one!!

New addition to our best body language books! Cues aligns with our competence & warmth framework, diving deep into the signals of both. Super practical—also helped us improve our products. Thanks to @vvanedwards , great work! 🙏

Here's a 4-minuet video #bookreview of #Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards I discovered her on the Craig Groeschel #leadership podcast. Two weeks into #encoding and #decoding and I can feel a stronger connection with others in my #preaching and #interpersonal communication. Thanks for great content packaged well. (NOTE: Watch the last minute of the review for a personal #testimony!)

I just finished Cues, and it was very life-changing... As a portrait photographer, I use the cues you share in the book to make people look more charismatic! So far, it's working like a charm! Congrats on Captivate's 6th anniversary! I will add it to my shelf!

I'm reading Cues by @vvanedwards around 400 pages in, and it's already the most influential book I'll read in 2025 I've: held deep conversations connected with cold people made loads of people laugh all in the space of a couple days! Now I'm a Social butterfly

Everything around us communicates something about us and our professionalism. Every day that I advance more in Vanessa's book I get more excited about how she describes situations that seem irrelevant but are very important, in her book CUES tells the story of David Nihill a friend of hers who narrates how a fortuitous situation led him to succeed in the professional field. I will try to describe in my own way what Vanessa says in her book. It turns out that one day Nihill was about to walk into his new job and the day before he washed his shirts and they shrank in the dryer. He no longer had time to buy new ones so he had to find a way to solve his problem. So that people would not realize that his shirts were now too short he decided to roll up his sleeves to try to hide the tremendous mistake, but it turned out that people noticed the folded sleeves but in a way that Nihill did not expect. They began to associate Nihill with a person ready to go in to solve problems, like when you decide to get to work and roll up our sleeves. For the first week he had to do the same. And he realized that this made people start associating him as a problem solver. "People started calling me the guy who rolls up his sleeves and started seeing me as a problem solver. It was incredible, it was as if rolling up my sleeves made me look ready to work. Ready to get your hands in and ready to work"* Nihill became the problem solver even though he hadn't been hired to do so. David says that this helped him to climb and his salary began to increase and in a large company of more than fifty thousand people he was already reporting directly to the CEO of the company. "Now everyone knew me as David, the Irish guy who rolls up his sleeves, all because I couldn't solve my original problem of drying my shirts," Nihill says. This anecdote shows us that everything around us affects what we

communicate, just as wearing glasses makes us look smarter or other things of everyday life. Why am I telling you this? It turns out that in our sessions everything happens to us but the common denominator is that people in a large majority do not give importance to how relevant it can be to have a wrinkled blouse or shirt. One day in a corporate portrait session for profile picture it happened to us that a client arrived and took her blouses out of her bag, they were made into a ball and of course when they were taken out they were very wrinkled, I did not know what to say. The moral of this post is that if you are going to make your portrait to demonstrate your leadership, take care and think about what you want to communicate with him, so that all the elements and expressions go according to it and that soon the same thing happens to you as to Nihill. -Thank you Vanessa for such a wonderful book :) I won't get tired of saying it.- *Vanessa Van Edwards. CUES pp.245 Kindle Version

Listened to whole book once going through again on Chapter 2 now!

I'm in the latter years of my career and love what I do. This book and your enthusiasm is really motivational. Thanks.

This is what happened to me and what I am now trying to overcome and be the real person I am...crushed by life.....but grateful to still be here......and learning the healthy path to true warmth and still having some competence with some brain damage and aging.

thank you, as this was a great presentation and I deeply appreciate your help. You give me hope that life can still be more enjoyable.

I find myself getting anxious realizing how many negative cues I'm sending off due to my anxiety, grateful to you and this book so I can start practicing more cues that match how I'm feeling authentically

Michèle-Andrée I'm so glad I discovered you; this is gold! nateTheProgrammer I'm loving this AMA Leslie I have already applied many of your concepts and I see they work Charlene I love what you have done with your research - so helpful! Clarity with purpose = a better, smarter, more confident me sara This makes so much sense!!!