Teams don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because they avoid the conversations that matter most.
Team performance suffers because:
- Important issues go unspoken
- Tension turns into blame
- Fake agreement replaces honest debate
- Nothing changes
The real constraint isn’t talent. It’s avoidance.
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Silence has a price. It's called conversational debt.
When you keep revisiting old decisions, when meetings end with no real progress, when everyone’s busy, but nothing changes, your team accumulates conversational debt.
It shows up in three patterns that keep teams stuck:
- Avoidance: The same mistakes keep repeating.
- Blame: Pointing fingers instead of finding solutions.
- Groupthink: Safe ideas win. Bold ideas die.
Forward Talk replaces silence and spinning with actual decisions and commitment.
Forward Talk
helps teams
choose:
- Real debate over polite agreement
- Brave ideas over safe ones
- Commitment over consensus
- Progress over comfort
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Teams can’t change what they’re not willing to talk about, especially when it feels pointless.
What if speaking up led to better decisions instead of fear?
What if disagreement made your team smarter instead of creating friction?
What if bold ideas were explored instead of quietly dismissed?
I help teams build the courage and skills to surface issues early, challenge each other productively, and turn tension into progress.
My workshops and talks combine behavioral science with 25 years of real-world experience to give your team practical tools they can use immediately–long after the session ends.
Your team doesn’t need more collaboration. Your team needs better conversations.