Rumbling with Conflict: Skills for Hard Conversations
Hosted by Trystan Reese
Tue, Feb 17, 2026
12:00 PM PST (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
What you'll learn
Identify your unique conflict style
Build self-awareness around the specific way you prefer to show up in conflict
Learn Brene Brown's "Rumble" framework
Dig into a specific, evidence-based tool for effectively engaging in hard conversations in the workplace
Replace unhealthy peace with generative conflict
Reframe conflict from feeling negative to offering an opportunity for connection and improved performance
Why this topic matters
Never before have workplaces felt so fraught. Social and political pressures pile up outside, creating a pressure cooker where tensions run high and tempers run short. Rejection sensitivity and conflict avoidance often result in workplaces where hard conversations are avoided, rather than being skillfully managed. Learn Brene Brown's Rumble Framework to embrace and tackle conflict head-on!
You'll learn from
Trystan Reese
CEO of Collaborate Consulting, Brene Brown Dare to Lead Certified Facilitator
After years of investing in leadership programs and certifications, I discovered Brene Brown’s work and was immediately struck by how much data there was behind her principles. The tools she’s developed have been used by Army SEALs, the CIA, and hundreds of nonprofits and government agencies around the world. They push past old “top-down” ways of leading and center whole-hearted, vulnerable leadership models as the most effective and necessary for this exact moment in our nation’s history.
As soon as I could, I became a Dare to Lead certified facilitator, and I’ve been bringing the 11 elements of Daring Leadership to workplaces ever since! I’ve worked with clients as diverse as Maybelline, Dropbox, Advanced Micro Devices, Cambridge Associates, and Harry’s.
I am also a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory, an evidence-based assessment tool that measures individual and team effectiveness at working across lines of difference. I bring this intercultural lens to everything I do, including my work with the Dare to Lead tools.
My educational background is in theatre, which means I bring a high-energy, interactive style to all of my work. Learners regularly describe my sessions as “the most engaging online workshops” they’ve ever attended.