Meet Your Team
Anna Nielsen, Founder
Anna is a seasoned executive leader and conflict navigation expert who refuses to accept conflict as only a destructive force. She's on a mission to ignite a paradigm shift, empowering individuals, teams, and organizations to embrace conflict as a source of strength.
Recognizing the absence of a standardized approach to conflict navigation in most organizations, she developed the Conflict Capable Framework.
This framework blends her extensive experience as a mediator, conflict navigation trainer, and facilitated dialogue expert, creating something entirely new.
Anna's work transcends conflict management; it guides organizations in cultivating vibrant cultures, charting ambitious futures, and achieving extraordinary heights.
She loves improv, popcorn, paddleboarding, creative writing, high-fives, and meeting you. She is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, Gabe, and Morris, the bouncy Golden Retriever.
Hallie Pond, Collaborative Solutions Specialist
As the Collaborative Solutions Specialist, Hallie facilitates Conflict Capable training and Guided Conversations.
She has worked across industries (retail, non-profits, and technology), functions (customer success, executive teams, and human resources), and roles (manager, executive, human resources business partner, speaker, facilitator). Hallie helps teams to realize their full potential by teaching healthy communication skills and dignified conflict navigation techniques - leading to higher job satisfaction and increased organizational success.
She holds a DISC certification, a bachelor’s degree in global studies from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, as well as an advanced certificate in conflict resolution, and a master’s in organizational psychology from Columbia University.
Hallie loves reading, camping, traveling, and running. She’s currently based in northern Minnesota after spending the past 15 years in West Africa, San Francisco, and New York City.