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What if your next difficult conversation could become your biggest opportunity for clarity, connection, and growth? What if you could consistently lead your team with confidence?
Join us for a powerful, interactive session designed to help you move from conflict avoidance to confident dialogue using The POSITIVE Approach to Courageous Conversations©, using the I–We–You conversational intelligence framework and real-world strategies.
As a people leader and a team member, do communication breakdowns make you tired of tiptoeing around tension? Do you find yourself looking for the right approach, the right words to resolve conflict? This session will help you reframe challenging talks into meaningful breakthroughs. Let’s help you experience less stress and greater confidence leading your team when those courageous conversations, or any conversation, needs to happen..
You’ll walk away with a Conversation Compass, and a 5-question prep sheet to help you immediately apply what you’ve learned.
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Melinda Stallings, CEO The Positive Consultant & Disrupt HR-Austin
Creator of The POSITIVE Approach©, award-winning speaker, best-selling author, executive coach, strategist, global consultant, and the 2026 recipient of LSU’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Meeting Students’ Needs. She has been a significant contributor at the national and local levels of SHRM, working to establish the first BOCK, assisting in certification exam knowledge and serving on boards.
Melinda has catalyzed profound transformations for individuals and organizations worldwide. Melinda draws from a deep well of over 30 years of expertise as an industrial/organizational psychologist and a wealth of experience in global contexts. As a result, Melinda offers a unique blend of insight and practical solutions combining scholarly knowledge with real-world wisdom and application to drive impactful change as she empowers leaders and teams through her innovative Positive Approach to Leadership (PAL), a hybrid management 2-day,in person facilitation of core leadership competencies, and a corresponding 6-week online - gamified employee course designed to promote a shared language of understanding throughout an organization.
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