Conflict Managed

Conflict Managed

Conflict Managed is a podcast about toxic workplaces and how to fix them. Listen to stories of dysfunction and triumph from different walks of life and professions. Join us on the journey as we talk about the good, bad, and ugly of our work environments and discuss a vision for the future of human-centered workplaces where people are not only treated with dignity and respect but encouraged to be their brilliant selves. Managing Conflict is not magic, though it takes intentional and sustained planning for health to win over chaos in any environment. Conflict is normal and expected. Let’s deal with it.

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May 19, 2026 55 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Shalin Desai. Together we explore:

  • Trying to escape vs. learning the skills to navigate difficult situations
  • Learning and practicing The Art of Living breathing
  • What is within our control
  • Training your mind
  • The role of emotions at work
  • The connection between breath and emotions
  • Emotional regulation: how?
  • Taking the mental “trash” out regularly

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Derek T. Smith. Together we explore:

  • Harassment and discrimination at work
  • Impact vs. intent
  • Holding real conversations before problems escalate
  • Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Geniuses learn from the mistakes of others
  • Let people talk. Let people know you are available.
  • When to reach out to a lawyer

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May 5, 2026 65 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Lucy Standing. Together we explore:

  • Internal and external networking
  • Her new book, Age Against the Machine: New Rules for Working in an Ageist World
  • Continuing career conversations at work
  • Agism at work
  • Assume good intent, then have the conversation anyway

 

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Mauricio “Reese” Ramos. Together we explore:

  • What an organizational ombuds is and does
  • Different conflict styles at work
  • Being present with others when they are struggling
  • Why does this matter so much to you?
  • What’s holding you back from acting?
  • The Ombuds Academy
  • Learning: knowledge or wisdom?

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Norman Wolfe. Together we explore:

  • The nature of work
  • Is there a better way to design work?
  • People are not “valuable assets”
  • The universality of love
  • Foundational needs we all have
  • Training people not to grow (old thinking)
  • The Living Organization framework

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Bruce Mayhew. Together we explore:

  • Getting your job done vs developing your career
  • Constructing policies that encourage growth
  • Creativity as a fundamental goal
  • Evolving (instead of changing)
  • What are we measuring (and why?)
  • Figuring out how people can be their best vs fitting people into preexisting molds
  • Bruce’s new book, The Path of the Inspired Leader

 

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Navid Nazemian. Together we explore:

  • If not now, when?
  • Being prepared to meet your luck
  • Navid’s book, Mastering Executive Transitions
  • Trust at work
  • Being seen, heard, and respected at work
  • Taking time to understand what you and your colleagues find acceptable and unacceptable when dealing with conflict

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Richmond Heath. Together we explore:

  • TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises)
  • Shaking and trembling as a natural selfcare technique
  • “Have you had your career defining moment yet?”
  • How old is your nervous system? How is your nervous system responding in the moment?
  • PQ: Physiological intelligence
  • Being truly calm and relaxed vs. trying to clamp down and masking/pretending to be calm a...
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Steven Puri. Together we explore:

  • What flow states are and how and why to enter them Work should be measured by effect, not location or time spent
  • Establishing your company culture
  • Leadership is seeing what someone has to offer and creating the conditions for it to emerge
  • How full do others perceive their glass to be (rather than how full it actually is)?
  • Building space for creativity
  • <...

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March 17, 2026 55 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Bud Caddell. Together we explore:

  • The power of friendship at work
  • Experimenting to find durable solutions
  • Behavior changes at work
  • Checking-in and repairing work relationships
  • Foreground and background conversations
  • Generations at work
  • Developing a “culture contract”
  • You get the workforce you think about/expect

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Ben Fox. Together we explore:

  • Following fear or love?
  • How to find the time to be curious
  • Addressing financial concerns when leaving a job
  • Ways you can start to change what you’re feeling at work
  • Finding the next thing
  • Shifting from ‘get me away from this’ to ‘this is what I want to move towards’

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dr. Kevin Foreman on our 200th episode! Together we explore:

  • ‘Why not me?’ mentality
  • Choosing to be unbothered
  • Conflict is a byproduct of growth
  • What’s your goal: Being right or getting results?
  • Blocking/cancel culture impedes our ability to resolve conflict
  • Conflict is an opportunity to construct
  • Approaching life and business as a student
  • Multigenerational environments: listen to our ...
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February 24, 2026 60 mins

🎙 This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Kae Kronthaler-Williams. Together we explore:

  • Women in tech
  • Maneuvering through the systems at work to advance your career
  • The relief that happens when you see your options (instead of staying stuck)
  • Finding a way to stay (when possible)
  • Separating intent from impact
  • Being comfortable holding uncomfortable conversations
  • Removing the invisible work of women through sharing tangible po...
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February 17, 2026 61 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Nikhil Raval. Join us as we explore:

  • Escalation culture
  • How to bridge generational divides
  • Global Gen Z similarities and differences
  • The personal impact of fantastic leadership
  • Want engagement? Communicate goals and expectations, consistently recognize good work, and be transparent.
  • Taking the time to become more self-aware
  • Being mindful to overcome generational stereotypes
  • Human connec...
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Heather Tinsley-Fix, Senior Advisor of Employer Engagement at AARP. Together we explore:

  • Research showing the benefits of working with colleagues in different generations
  • What are older workers concerned with?
  • Practical ways to avoid falling prey to age stereotypes at work
  • The impact of age discrimination on older workers
  • The positive bottom-line effect of multigenerational teams and or...
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Joel Steele. Together we explore:

  • Focusing on where you want to go, not what you’re trying to avoid
  • What are your emotions (gems) telling you?
  • What is daily success?
  • In conflict, what do you want?
  • Joel’s new book: The Life Switch
  • What does it mean to live life (and work) “on” instead of “off?”

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January 27, 2026 60 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Will Giangrande. Together we explore:

  • Transferable skills
  • Misperceptions of Gen Z at work
  • Gen Z expectations
  • Getting to the root of generational differences at work
  • Giving feedback to Gen Z
  • Reverse mentorship as a golden opportunity

 

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Mitchell Osmond. Together we explore:

  • What is common knowledge?
  • Being bitter or better
  • The obstacle of holding people to what hasn’t been clearly communicated
  • Deciding to be thick skinned and soft hearted (instead of thin skinned and hard hearted)
  • Success professionally and personally
  • How do you define success?

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This week on Conflict Managed, the tables are turned. Scott Williams, CEO of Discovery Park of America, interviews Merry Brown, UT Martin Ombuds and founder of Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services about her new book, Winning the Generation Wars at Work: Making (Your) Age an Asset.

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  • The antidote to the generation wars at work
  • Why generational conflict is more about narratives than people
  • How...
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January 6, 2026 58 mins

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Jacqueline Wales. Together we explore:

  • What is fear?
  • Four professional fears
  • Fear as information
  • Fear based behavior
  • E.A.R.: Face it, Explore it, Act on it, Rise with it
  • Self-compassion
  • Do you have enough information for the judgement you have made?
  • Not fearless, but fear intelligence

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