Conflict Managed

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Bruce Mayhew. Together we explore:

Getting your job done vs developing your career

Constructing policies that encourage growth

Creativity as a fundamental goal

Evolving (instead of changing)

What are we measuring (and why?)

Figuring out how people can be their best vs fitting people into preexisting molds

Bruce’s new book, The Path of the Inspired Leader

 

Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration

Bruce Mayhew has a passion for helping his clients achieve their professional development goals. He is a corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and author who has spent more than two decades helping leaders and teams build empowering cultures that turn good intentions into everyday behaviors that build trust, engagement, and results. As president and founder of Toronto-based Bruce Mayhew Consulting, Bruce delivers practical, people-first and research-informed programs and keynotes covering Leadership and new-leader development, Difficult conversations, Generational differences / Generational dynamics, Time management, and Email etiquette.

A former Scotiabank leader, Bruce spent 11 years in roles spanning sales & marketing, corporate marketing, and cash management. Today, clients value Bruce for his clear frameworks, energizing delivery, and immediately usable tools. His training anchors custom solutions that match each organization’s culture, strategy, and goals.

In his debut leadership book, The Path of an Inspired Leader which launched in February 2026, Bruce distills years of practice into a practical, uplifting roadmap for leading with clarity, courage, and care—so people feel safe, proud of the work they do, and connected to why it matters.

Whether coaching one-to-one or engaging a ballroom, Bruce’s mission is constant: help leaders create the conditions where people flourish—and performance follows.

 

Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Navid Nazemian. Together we explore:

If not now, when?

Being prepared to meet your luck

Navid’s book, Mastering Executive Transitions

Trust at work

Being seen, heard, and respected at work

Taking time to understand what you and your colleagues find acceptable and unacceptable when dealing with conflict

Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration

Navid Nazemian is an international bestselling author, executive coach, and keynote speaker helping leaders and founders navigate high-stakes transitions and scale their impact. Author of Mastering Executive Transitions, he has coached executives across five continents and appeared on 70+ podcasts. His work blends leadership, strategy, and personal growth, offering practical frameworks to build resilient teams, grow sustainably, and lead with clarity and confidence, supported by a global community of 40,000+ leaders.

Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Richmond Heath. Together we explore:

TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises)

Shaking and trembling as a natural selfcare technique

“Have you had your career defining moment yet?”

How old is your nervous system? How is your nervous system responding in the moment?

PQ: Physiological intelligence

Being truly calm and relaxed vs. trying to clamp down and masking/pretending to be calm and relaxed

Unfreezing and thawing the body to let your body unwind

External conflict ends with the dawn of internal peace

Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration

Richmond Heath is a pioneer in somatic stress recovery and the founder of TRE Australia, where he has spent over a decade teaching people how to access the body’s innate ability to release stress through a natural, often-overlooked reflex: shaking. His work with Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) offers a paradigm-shifting approach to wellbeing—one that helps calm the nervous system, ease chronic tension, and support emotional balance without the need for mental effort, storytelling, or structured routines. TRE is now used by individuals, athletes, and wellness professionals seeking practical, body-led tools for resilience and recovery.

Richmond’s understanding of the pressures people face isn’t theoretical. His own experiences with high-functioning anxiety, especially the strain of trying to meet unspoken expectations around what it means to “hold it together,” showed him how many men feel trapped by outdated ideas of strength. This personal insight fuels his work today, where he invites conversations about a different kind of masculinity—one that values embodied presence and connection over silent endurance. For men who find talk-based therapies uncomfortable or inaccessible, Richmond shows how simple body-based practices can offer a practical, private way to process stress and reconnect with themselves, making space for healthier relationships and a more balanced life.

Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

 

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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Steven Puri. Together we explore:

What flow states are and how and why to enter them
Work should be measured by effect, not location or time spent

Establishing your company culture

Leadership is seeing what someone has to offer and creating the conditions for it to emerge

How full do others perceive their glass to be (rather than how full it actually is)?

Building space for creativity

 

Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration

 

Steven Puri is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life.

Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28.

Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions (Star Trek 11, Transformers 1&2, Eagle Eye, Transformers: Prime, et al.).

After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and had two failed start-ups before founding The Sukha Company - ‘sukha’ means ‘happiness from self-fulfillment’ in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to enter into a Flow State and a have healthy, productive workday.

Steven now lives in Austin, TX.

Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Bud Caddell. Together we explore:

The power of friendship at work

Experimenting to find durable solutions

Behavior changes at work

Checking-in and repairing work relationships

Foreground and background conversations

Generations at work

Developing a “culture contract”

You get the workforce you think about/expect

Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration

Described as “a craftsman of transformation,” Bud has dedicated his professional life to proving that change is always possible, even in the largest, most complex institutions on the planet.

Bud started his career as the Head of Technology at a venture-backed startup, and quickly found himself advising Fortune 500 executives on their technology and innovation efforts. But the barriers to change we saw across their organizations weren't technical. They were cultural and organizational. Inertia, politics, dysfunction, as well as plain fear, stopped good ideas from being explored or even heard. Meanwhile, traditional consultants saw change primarily as a communications exercise, and focused on grand plans, not the hard work of implementation.

In response, Bud became obsessed with the real mechanisms behind organizational change - the levers that actually provide new behaviors and shared conditions, and ultimately drive their adoption at scale. He founded NOBL in 2014 as an evidence-based and experimentation-forward approach to transformation, which has garnered truly remarkable results and attention for clients.

Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.

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