Listen. Lead. Transform.
Hear the whispers before the roar
You’re a business leader facing constant challenges…
Navigating change, resolving conflict and tough conversations are business as usual.
Ignoring the early warning signs is not your best strategy.
It’s time to empower yourself and your people with proven emotional intelligence skills.
- Are you seeing tension in team meetings?
- People avoiding eye contact, staying silent, or speaking in clipped tones?
- Are you experiencing increased absenteeism or mental health leave requests?
- Disengaged staff during performance reviews?
- Office or team cliques?
- Silo mentality between teams or departments?
- Leaders second-guessing themselves, feeling tired or isolated?
This is not normal workplace stress.
These are the whispers before the roar.
The whispers are the early warning signs which are often ignored, the subtle issues that signal deeper problems are brewing.
The roar is time-consuming, costly, ineffective, and painful for all involved.
About Desiree
Hello, I’m Dr. Desiree Beekharry, founder and leader of Manage the Conflict.
I help business leaders like you resolve conflicts with unwavering confidence before they get out of hand.
I focus on the human element, providing tailored workshops and coaching that equip you to excel, ditch the drama, and drive high-performance outcomes.
My straightforward approach offers actionable tools and a shared language to tackle challenges head-on, transforming them into powerful growth opportunities.
My expertise isn’t just theory; it’s forged from extensive experience in areas like disaster and emergency management with organisations including Australia’s emergency services, Swissair, American Airlines and the UN Emergency Travel & Conferences Unit.
Drawing on my experiences over 25 years and across nine countries, I deliver next-level conflict management that works for everyone from startups to corporations.
Available Workshops
Workshops are proactive, strategic and human-centred with a focus on improving communication.
I aim to empower you with new skills and new language that you can use with your teams to effectively manage conflict, build self-esteem and enable you to become the leader you aspire to be.
Improve your skills to move your team discussions from troubled and conflicted exchanges to robust and energetic constructive conversations.
I offer tailored-to-you workshops including:
Conflict Management
Behavioural Profiling
Cultural Awareness
Applied Project Management
Managing from Chaos to Normality
I particularly enjoyed the well-structured and small-group format, which fostered personalised engagement and meaningful discussions. I left the workshop with a significant boost in confidence in my ability to handle situations using the ACE framework."
Consider early intervention and cultural transformation:
- Psychosocial Risk audit and mapping: Support leaders in identifying hidden people risks that impact compliance, wellbeing and performance.
- Change Management preparedness.
- The Power of “No”.
We have to be respectful. Acknowledging our emotions and how we react to our emotions is what will define us.
Conflicts can be resolved if we always go in with the lens that there are always two perspectives of view point."
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I chose the shamrock in my logo because it is a symbol of unity.
It is also a symbol of luck. Shamrocks grow in clumps and represent a sense of togetherness.
The three leaves are symbol of trinity, and the A.C.E. Principle is the foundation.
My work is built on navigating personal battles with discrimination and workplace bullying.
These challenges ignited my commitment to making a difference.
This lived experience is the bedrock of my coaching, helping organisations realise that great leadership means effectively handling the human element, not just the tasks.
We can achieve both employee well-being and a strong bottom line within a supportive and inclusive culture.
Other Opportunities to Engage
Public Speaking
I offer public speaking to encourage people to bring themselves in their entire being to the table. Whether professionally, socially or personally there is no need to leave a part of ourselves at the front door.
As a Public Speaker, I tend to speak energetically and enthusiastically of women taking the risk of being who they are (their authentic self – which is such a bit of a buzz word), caring enough for themselves to show up as themselves.
Some speaking topics include:
- Authenticity and behaviour
- The power of “No!”
- From crisis to normality
- Dare to risk
- Fight or flight
Private Coaching can offer you:
- Clarity on personality clashes
- Effective performance management
- Resolution of competing priorities
- Restoration of relationships
Her openness and honesty lets me know she’s trustworthy. Desiree holds so much wisdom, just naturally AND through her own life experience. Her guidance and insights clearly come from her heart.
These are absolutely the qualities I look for in a coach…”
Discover how we can enhance your team’s skills and enable you to become the impactful, confident, and effective manager you know you can be.
Profiling helped me define how I tick in a concise manner."