THE BLOG
Real Life Conflict Has Become More Television Than Reality Television. We Need a National Conversation.
I have sons under the age of 30 and a part of their world is watching videos uploaded to social media sites. More and more, these videos are of real life conflicts that have captured the attention of tweens, teens and adults all over the globe. With the ushering in of...
Since Mind Reading Is Not An Option. What Are We To Think?
Imagine this if you will. Your child has been bullied at school for the last four years. Although it started out less overtly, in the last two years it has escalated. You have brought it to the attention of the school and asked them to address it and they have made a...
The Cost of Not Understanding The Role of Culture In Business
Are You Ready For This Kind of Leadership? My client, let’s call her Tamara, is part of a dynamic team of very successful and very driven leaders. As a girl, she learned that her voice was not as important as boy’s voices. As part of her ethnicity, she learned...
The Most Powerful Part of Listening That Most People Neglect
How You Can Start Using It Now One of the biggest mistakes I made happened early on in my conflict resolution career. I was helping a father and son talk about some family difficulties between them. They were a Latino family and the father was very skeptical about...
Communicating Effectively In Covid19 Times: Everyday Lessons From the Trenches
As you know, I spent the last two weeks taking a much-needed break and I even got away for a little vacation by the water in Connecticut. Ahhhhhhhh…. The Conflict Closer in me does not stop though and I quickly picked up on what’s going on in the outside world. Being...

