Conflict Managed

Ep 122, Navigating Toxicity: Leadership, Character, and Creating Healthy Work Environments

🎙This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Lisa Steelman, Executive Leader and Leadership Coach. Join us as we discuss:
🧭Investing in leadership training
🧭The gift of learning through observation
🧭Nurturing the work environment you want
🧭When employees abuse systems that are meant to protect employees
🧭Getting curious about the causes of underperformance
🧭Players and pretenders in the office
As an executive manager, Lisa Steelman has led high performance teams and managed strategies in government, associations, and Fortune 10, and Global 50 companies. She has spearheaded winning multi-billion-dollar RFP projects and navigated complex legislative landscapes, managing budgets of $30M+ and has achieved exceptional results in advocacy, communications, and public affairs.
Committed to continuous growth as a John Maxwell certified leadership coach, MBA graduate, and CAE candidate, Lisa leverages her expertise in executive leadership, strategic planning, and association management to drive organizational success.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 121, Addressing Challenges in Remote Work

Ep 121, Addressing Challenges in Remote Work
🎙This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Wayne Turmel, author, speaker, podcast host, and communications and leadership professional.
Join us as we discuss:
🏁Conflicts in remote teams
🏁Thinking through employee engagement in a remote workforce
🏁Rethinking hybrid work: from compromise to strategic
🏁The value of personality assessments at work & understanding work styles
🏁The importance of effective communication in hybrid work settings
Wayne Turmel has been writing about how to develop communication and leadership skills for nearly 30 years. He’s taught and consulted at Fortune 500 companies and startups around the world. For the last 18 years, he’s focused on the growing need to communicate effectively in remote and virtual environments.
In addition to his writing, Wayne is a sought-after speaker at business and leadership conferences and events. He’s the author of 15 books, and a frequent guest at events such as ATD’s International Conference and Exposition and the European Digital Learning Expo. He’s also the host of the “Long Distance Worklife,” podcast. Marshall Goldsmith calls him “One of the most unique voices in leadership today.”
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 120, Peace: Leaving a Toxic Workplace on Your Own Terms

This week on Conflict Managed we are joined by award-winning attorney Jessica Childress.
Join us as we discuss:
🏆Avoiding impulsive reactions to leaving a difficult work environment
🏆Developing courage to address difficult work situations
🏆Supporting colleagues by lending your courage to them
🏆Always leading with respect
🏆Managed conflict fuels innovation
Jessica Childress is the author of Peace: Leaving a Toxic Workplace on Your Own Terms.  Ms. Childress has practiced employment law for over eleven years, representing organizations of all sizes and individuals in employment law matters.  She is the Managing Attorney of the Childress Firm PLLC, a boutique employment law firm, based in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Childress holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and African American Studies from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. Ms. Childress graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Distinction from the University of Virginia in 2007.
Prior to launching the Childress Firm PLLC, Ms. Childress served as an associate at two global law firms and as an attorney at the United States Department of Justice. 
Ms. Childress has litigated retaliation, discrimination, sexual harassment, non-competition, trade secret, unfair labor practice, and whistleblower cases before various tribunals. She serves clients in general business transactions with employees and independent contractors. Ms. Childress drafts agreements such as employment agreements, consulting agreements, severance agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
She has been the recipient of several honors, including the National Bar Association’s 2018 Young Lawyer of the Year Award, the Washington Bar Association’s 2017-2018 Young Lawyer of the Year Award, the National Bar Association’s 40 under 40 Best Advocates Award, the Kim Keenan Leadership & Advocacy Award, the Greater Washington Area Chapter of the National Bar Association’s Rising Star Award, and recognition by the National Black Lawyers as one of the top 100 black attorneys. In 2022, Ms. Childress received the Women Owned Law organization’s Woman Legal Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Ms. Childress has been named to the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Stars lists. Only 2.5% of practicing attorneys in Washington, D.C. are selected to receive this honor.
Ms. Childress is a 2022 graduate of the Aspen Institute’s Justice and Society program. Ms. Childress serves as a contributor for Arianna Huffington’s international media outlet, Thrive Global. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, Essence, the Huffington Post, Success, and Entrepreneur.
Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services.

Ep 119, Workplace Conflict: Unmasking Hidden Logic

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dennis Stevens, Executive Leader, Entrepreneur and Founder of OrgWright.
Join us as we discuss:
🎯Achieving cohesion among colleagues throughout an organization
🎯Organizational design
🎯Understanding competition within organizations
🎯Clarity in work
🎯The ladder of inference
🎯Addressing the ‘frozen middle’
Dennis Stevens is a seasoned consultant and visionary leader with over 30 years of experience at the nexus of technology innovation and organizational leadership. Starting his career in the US Marine Corps, Dennis honed an appreciation for what can be accomplished with well-formed teams, clarity of purpose, and effective leadership. His entrepreneurial journey includes founding several companies that helped organizations accelerate business strategies by aligning emergent software solutions with organizational design and change management, driving significant transformations.
In 2011, Dennis co-founded LeadingAgile, where he became renowned for innovative problem-solving and scalable business solutions. He led over 150 transformations, establishing himself as a thought leader in Agile and AI integration, fostering resilient and adaptable organizations. His latest venture, OrgWright, launched in 2024, focuses on guiding organizations through digital evolution by building leadership teams adept at crafting dynamic organizations. Dennis emphasizes four critical conditions—Informed Awareness, Coherence, Purposeful Direction, and Strategic Empowerment—to cultivate adaptability and strategic execution, grounded in his extensive consulting and management experience.
Dennis is not just a consultant, but a sought-after speaker, known for his insights into organizational transformation, executive buy-in, and the future of work in the era of AI. His approach, which underscores the role of executive leadership in scaling adaptability and fostering innovation, makes him an authoritative voice in the field.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 118, Coaching Abrasive Leaders

🎙This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dr. Laura Crawshaw, The Boss Whisperer.
Join us as we discuss:
🎯Stopping the workplace suffering caused by abrasive leaders.
🎯Witnessing the trauma of workplace bullying
🎯Why would a boss treat an employee badly?
🎯Why would a company not intervene when a boss is treating employees badly?
🎯Addressing indirect negative perceptions
🎯The management backbone
 
Laura Crawshaw, Ph.D., BCC, also known as The Boss Whisperer®, specializes in researching and coaching abrasive leaders and helping managers learn how to manage them. Over the past forty years, she has served an international clientele, including over 40 Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, and NASA. She founded the Executive Insight Development Group, Inc. in 1994 and the Boss Whispering Institute (dedicated to research and training in the specialty practice of coaching abrasive leaders) in 2009. She is also on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
 
Dr. Crawshaw’s first book, Taming the Abrasive Manager: How to End Unnecessary Roughness in the Workplace was released in 2007. Her new book is Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior: A Guide for Those Who Manage Bosses Who Bully (Executive Insight Press).
LinkedIn Site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bosswhispering/
Website: www.bosswhispering.com
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 117, Utilizing Conflict

🎙This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Chad Brown, founder and executive coach and business owner.
Join us as we discuss:
⚒Normalizing failure
➗Solving problems for humans
😳The half-life of an emotion
⚡Holding higher conversations than fear
💼Work/life integration
 
Chad Brown is a leadership engagement expert. He coaches founders and executives in the art and science of leadership for themselves, their teams, and clients to create new, unprecedented results and experience fulfillment in their work.
Chad founded a media production studio called Shade Tree Films in 2008 that has serviced global companies such as Volkswagen, Target, and Pixar Animation Studios.
This is where his love and passion for leadership and causing results through others was ignited. He sold that company in 2021.
Chad thrives in extreme environments and difficult conversations. Over the last 7 years, Chad has trained and developed leaders at globally recognized brands like Lulu Lemon and Ironclad Document Services along with many burgeoning start-ups.
When he is not engaging in meaningful conversations with leaders, you will find (or won't be able to find) Chad on a wild adventure in the mountains with his family. He resides at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Orem, Utah with his wife Katie and three children Addison, Kenya, and Milo.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 116, Working Through Generational Differences

🎙This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Casey Ruggiero, Operations Coordinator for REACH for Uganda.
Join us as we discuss:
🥇Navigating team differences
🐴Lessons learned from a NCAA Divion I equestrian athlete
👩‍💻Investing in young professionals
✌Non-profits
🌐Mission-minded work
 
Casey Ruggiero is native to the suburbs of Washington DC and grew up traveling alongside her parents who had careers that took them all over Africa. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2023 with B.A.s in International Studies and Philosophy. Her undergraduate honors thesis consisted of researching the efficacy of small sustainable development organizations in Kenya. She also conducted research and co-authored a paper on Taiwan's New Southbound Policy in 2022. She was a captain of the NCAA Division I equestrian team while at UT Martin. Casey is passionate about the environment, education, and service. She is now based in Arlington VA and works for a nonprofit that serves communities in Uganda with education, healthcare, and community development.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 115, Disagreeing Well

🎙 This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dr. Jason Eberl. Join us as we discuss:
🏁Servant leadership
🎞The art of filtering communication
🧭The challenges and opportunities of middle managers
🛤Building trust
🏛Forming good business habits
🤳Engaging in honest self-reflection
 
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is the Hubert Mäder Chair in Health Care Ethics, Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy, and Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. His research interests include the philosophy of human nature and its application to issues at the margins of life, biotechnology, and the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of Thomistic Principles and Bioethics, The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, and The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics, as well as editor of Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 114, The Gold in Validating Others

🎙 This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Hesha Abrams, Master Mediator, Author, and Lead Deal Maker at Hesha Abrams Mediation LLC.
Join us as we discuss:
🌻Focusing on flowers instead of weeds
📚The power of storytelling
💰The beauty of taking free advice
🕊What is Holding the Calm?
🧠Good intentions are not enough
👓Watching others to continually learn
Hesha Abrams is an internationally acclaimed master attorney mediator, negotiator and deal maker who, for 30 years, has been renowned for her success in resolving high profile or difficult matters, including mediating the case over the secret recipe for Pepsi. She has worked with Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Verizon, and other large multinational companies, individuals, inventors and small businesses, creating deals and solving cases. Her popular new book, “Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension,” is an insightful, practical, and easy to use guide to defuse tension, eliminate conflict, and make deals.
Hesha Abrams, Esq. Social Media Links
Book website:  www.HoldingTheCalm.com
Mediation business website: www.heshaabramsmediation.com
LinkedIn: hesha-abrams-esq   https://www.linkedin.com/in/hesha-abrams-esq/
Facebook: HeshaAbramsHoldingTheCalm    
https://www.facebook.com/HeshaAbramsHoldingTheCalm
You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPcPngGiIF-GlC8w1l3sH8A
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

Ep 113, Noticing Problems & Acting

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Elizabeth Pritchett, social media marketer and small business owner.
Join us as we discuss:
🖋Starting a philanthropic foundation
💢Tips to reduce emotions when making team decisions
💭Communicating the why behind decisions
💪The power of strong work relationships
🧠No mind reading at work
🌐Flexible work schedules
Elizabeth Pritchett is a former accountant turned marketing enthusiast. After spending fifteen years in accounting, Elizabeth co-started a technology business in 2012 and during that time marketing found her. Throughout the years that followed, social media continued to find Elizabeth time and time again. Over the last decade, Elizabeth has managed social media for over twenty small businesses as well as taught numerous marketing courses online and in person at UT Martin REED Centers well as several Chambers of Commerce throughout west Tennessee.
Elizabeth is the owner of Eliz Pritchett and provides social media management, consulting, online courses, and group presentations for entrepreneurs and small businesses.  One of Elizabeth’s biggest social media successes was leading the social media efforts for the TN Soybean Festival for about five years.  During her tenure, the festival received a Gold Kaleidoscope Award from the Southeast Festival & Event Association for Best Social Media Marketing.  Elizabeth has a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting as well as a MBA from UTM.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services.