Inside Out x The Power House: Smart Conflict

About the Event

In an era of hybrid working, rapid change, and heightened complexity around workplace culture, many of us are finding it harder than ever to have the conversations that matter. But avoiding crucial conversations comes at a cost for individuals, teams and organisations. 

Join the authors of the best-selling book ‘Smart Conflict, How to have hard conversations at work’ Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst for this mastermind where they will illuminate the key tools and mindsets needed to embrace Smart Conflict and transform your work, your team (and maybe your life).

Whether it’s holding a boundary, addressing a bias, giving feedback or negotiating a pay rise, feeling willing and able to lean into hard conversations is arguably more complex than ever. But avoidance often leads to misalignment, resentment, and stagnation for individuals, teams and entire organisations.

Drawing on the latest evidence and thinking from psychology and neuroscientific research (and crucially from our thousands of hours of real-life practice as leadership and conflict coaches) Alice and Louise will explain why conflict competence is a superpower and how their 5R Smart Conflict Model enables you to increase it and get the results you want.

Benefits of attending:

• Understand the critical role difficult conversations play in high-performing teams, as an agent of change.
• Learn the critical difference between constructive and destructive conflict.
• Be introduced to evidence-based mindsets and strategies for getting better at hardconversations with great results.
• Feel inspired to create an environment for Smart Conflict in your in-house creative team or organisation.

Format

Our mastermind sessions are hosted on Zoom. The main part of the presentation will be recorded and added to our members’ learning hub. The last part of the session will be open to Q&A so you have the opportunity to ask your questions directly to Alice and Louise.

About our speaker

Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst are the co-founders of The Power House, a global leadership development and culture change business on a mission to build conflict-competent cultures in organisations everywhere. They have coached and trained over 30,000 leaders and teams across a wide range of sectors at household names including BBC Studios, PwC and Google. They are the co-authors of the new best-selling book ‘Smart Conflict – How to have hard conversations at work’ and sought-after speakers who are featured on the 2026 Thinkers50 Radar List, as one of 30 up-and-coming thinkers globally whose ideas are set to shape the future of management thinking.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-elizabeth-driscoll

https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-van-haarst