THE TOP CONFLICT cOACHES
Dealing with conflict is a challenging yet crucial part of any workplace.
To help navigate these turbulent waters, I’ve gathered insights from some of the top conflict coaches.
These experts have dedicated their careers to helping individuals and organizations manage disputes effectively.
In this article, they share their unique approaches and the key factors behind their success in conflict
Do you think you or a coach that you know deserves to be featured as a top conflict coach? If yes, then fill out this form and we will consider your application and get in touch with you for the next steps.
In Brief : The top Conflict Coaches
- Suba Lakshminarasimhan – Suba Lakshminarasimhan, a distinguished Executive Leadership coach with ICF-PCC and EMCC-SP credentials, specializes in transforming organizations and individuals by fostering internal awareness and empathy.
- Marc Reid – Mediation4 is run by Marc and Kathy Reid. Mediation4 is based in Berkshire in the Thames Valley and supplies mediation services and conflict management training to the whole of the UK.
- Alice Driscoll – I’VE EXPERIENCED, AND CONTRIBUTED TO MY FAIR SHARE OF POOR LEADERSHIP AND DESTRUCTIVE CONFLICT IN MY 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS.
- Pamela Cournoyer – My goal is that you treat those around you with deep respect, epic kindness, and high emotional intelligence.
- Nancy Radford – When emotions run high, there’s a lot at stake and you disagree, it’s hard to make the right choices.
- Anjali Soi – Mediation involves having open and constructive conversations about conflicts. You control the process while the mediator acts as a guide, helping everyone move past moments that are stuck or in crisis.
- Dr. Debra Dupree – I know it sounds funny, perhaps odd, that I am enthusiastic and passionate about dispute resolution. I dislike seeing people struggle in conflict when workable solutions exist and they just don’t know it.
- Kathleen Kauth – Objective, strategic guidance to business leaders provides the cornerstone of K.T. Beck Enterprises, LLC.
- Dagmar Relling – For over 15 years, I have worked with leaders locally and internationally at all different levels of crisis, business models and personalities, coming alongside them through their change, growth and transformation as they take the next step in reaching their full potential.
- Ben Ziegler – I’m Ben Ziegler, a collaboration & conflict management consultant, based in Victoria, BC (Canada). I also work as coordinator of a seniors’ advocacy program serving Victoria-area low-income seniors.
Suba Lakshminarasimhan
Suba Lakshminarasimhan is a renowned Executive Leadership coach with ICF – PCC and EMCC – SP credentials. A certified team coach, Suba has been supporting her client organizations and the coachees to transform from within so that they can be better aware of their internal triggers and motivating elements. By coaching them to be authentically empathetic, Suba helps creating a cohesive, psychologically safe work environment.
Suba comes with 5000+ facilitation, coaching, mentoring hours that includes 1500+ ICF hours coaching leaders. An award winning entrepreneur, she is Board of director in ICF Chennai Charter Chapter and.a member of prestigious forums like ICF Global, EMCC global, ICF Bengaluru Chapter, NHRDN Bangalore chapter and alumni of Cherri Blair Mentor Foundation.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Suba’s 5 power-step coaching model starts at augmenting the core which happens at the first session as well. Suba co-develops the tracking & measuring mechanism to assess the growth of the coaches in such a way that the accountability quotient goes up. The deeper impact created during the sessions stays with the coaches lifelong.
My speciality is enabling both Growth as leaders & Evolvement as human beings for my coachees and client organizations.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Growth as a coach is a critical factor for me. One is studying varied philosophies both from east and west, continuously upskilling via trainings, workshops.
My contextual intelligent quotient is high. Once I gain clarity, I create a model that can help my coachees in mitigating challenging or enhance the existing model to up the game. Moreover, I consciously implement these learning in my life and measure the evolvement and growth.
Alice Driscoll
I’VE EXPERIENCED, AND CONTRIBUTED TO MY FAIR SHARE OF POOR LEADERSHIP AND DESTRUCTIVE CONFLICT IN MY 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS.
I’m on a real mission to eradicate both in the world of work through my work with leaders and their teams.
Hopefully, we will create some positive ripples in the wider world.
My training in a wide range of psychological, coaching and communication approaches allows me to flex and adapt my approach to meet your specific and unique needs, supported always by a supportive yet heavily results-focused style of coaching.
Pamela Cournoyer
My goal is that you treat those around you with deep respect, epic kindness, and high emotional intelligence.
By doing this, both you and those around you will feel valued, safe, and empowered to spring into unfettered creativity and unbridled productivity.
Your end result?
To become graced with more time freedom, a satisfying sense of contribution, and a big, fat bank account.
If you manage people, and want your staff to be considerate, thoughtful and get a LOT of work done; all the while paying holy homage to your masterful leadership, it’s time we talk.
If you are a coach, and you want your clients to zealously refer you, convincing others how you’ve incomparably inspired their own amazing transformation, it’s time we talk.
Nancy Radford
When emotions run high, there’s a lot at stake and you disagree, it’s hard to make the right choices.
To manage disagreements better, people need someone everyone can trust. Micro organisations have unique cultures. To understand the pressures, you need someone who has worked in a similar environment. You need quick and affordable results. The service has to fit your circumstances and help you find a solution that works for you.
Having owned and worked in family businesses and small charities, I know the special strains (as well as the joys) these bring. As a business and personal coach, I’ve seen charities struggling because directors don’t get on, family businesses failing due to personality clashes and grief caused by disagreements. It was this that led me to study why people behave the way they do and train as a mediator.
Anjali Soi
Mediation involves having open and constructive conversations about conflicts. You control the process while the mediator acts as a guide, helping everyone move past moments that are stuck or in crisis. Everyone has the opportunity to voice their desires and grievances in a safe and neutral atmosphere. Mediation resolves issues and concerns in a less stressful way and also saves you a considerable amount of time and money.
Dr. Debra Dupree
I know it sounds funny, perhaps odd, that I am enthusiastic and passionate about dispute resolution. I dislike seeing people struggle in conflict when workable solutions exist and they just don’t know it.
My passion is to help leaders and dispute resolution professionals discover the path to resolution instead of a life in trouble.
Where did I uncover this pathway to resolution?
Well, having grown up in a family on the younger end of 9 children, to be seen and not heard, in the midst of a family-owned business, I saw plenty of high tensions, mismanaged conflict, and hurt relationships, sometimes beyond repair. A real loss to all impacted.
Given our Scandinavian heritage, we didn’t deal well with conflict much less express real emotion. I didn’t want to keep living that way and chose a pathway of education and line of work to make a difference with influence.
In spite of what I learned and experienced as I moved into my own adult career, I still faced my own hardships…closing down a business in the 1990’s due to changes in laws, working with my employees to find new jobs, all while starting a family.
After rebounding, the recession of 2008 led to more setbacks with loss of contracts, leading to financial devastation, all while raising my two children as a single parent. Struggling to make ends meet was an understatement.
While these hardships challenged me to keep going, I had to get past my embarrassment and fear of being vulnerable, I sought out those ahead of me. Drawing upon mentors offering guidance and wisdom from their own experiences, I was inspired with courage and hope even in tough times.
Drawing upon a combination of life, education and career choices with 30 years of experience as a mediation and psychologist, I offer to those interested the lessons learned and proven strategies developed on how to make a difference. Today’s work world and style of leadership require new courage, curiosity and insight, compassion, concern and commitment in ways never quite experienced.
Kathleen Kauth
Objective, strategic guidance to business leaders provides the cornerstone of K.T. Beck Enterprises, LLC.
Untangling dysfunction due to unresolved conflicts is one of the primary focuses of any conflict expert. Using a blend of executive coaching, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and team facilitation conflict is successfully addressed.
Eldercare Mediation is a specialty focus of K.T. Beck Enterprises. Eldercare Mediation is working with families who are navigating the often contentious decisions related to the aging process. The goal is to help family units develop stronger methods of communication and understanding of how the older adult wants to live out their life, making critical decisions in the best way possible to reflect that older adults’ wishes.
Dagmar Relling
Who I am & My Story
For over 15 years, I have worked with leaders locally and internationally at all different levels of crisis, business models and personalities, coming alongside them through their change, growth and transformation as they take the next step in reaching their full potential.
My focus and methodology for change is to help create more courageous individuals, as I believe in courage as a catalyst for change, pushing us to act, move forward, and power through challenges. I pride myself in being a passionate and committed coach, facilitator, entrepreneur and change maker.
My specialty is being a supportive and consistent force in helping my clients face their challenges head on and grow and develop because of them. I’ve been told I have a unique approach and specialized skillset in conflict resolution, helping my clients face and use their conflict for long term sustainable change. And the gift I always hope to leave my clients is inspiration and courage to tackle the unknown and whatever comes their way.
Ben Ziegler
I’m Ben Ziegler, a collaboration & conflict management consultant, based in Victoria, BC (Canada). I also work as coordinator of a seniors’ advocacy program serving Victoria-area low-income seniors.
This website serves as my personal blog, and is primarily focused on my conflict management and collaboration interests and work. To learn more about advocacy work
Conclusion
The wisdom shared by these top conflict coaches underscores the importance of effective conflict management.
Whether through mediation, emotional intelligence, or tailored coaching strategies, their methods provide valuable tools for resolving disputes and fostering a healthier work environment.
By applying these insights, you can better manage conflicts and create a more harmonious workplace.
Our highest-rated course lays the necessary foundations for this for you. This is a paid course but you can register for FREE for a limited time here.
Do you think you or a coach that you know deserves to be featured as a top conflict coach? If yes, then fill out this form and we will consider your application and get in touch with you for the next steps.
You always provide great resources and references.