Work And Life With Stew Friedman

Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler is a leading expert on conflict and organizational psychology. She’s also the founder and CEO of Alignment Strategies Group, and author of Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home and in Life, which was selected as a Financial Times Book of the Month. For two decades, Jennifer has advised senior leaders at global corporations as well as at large non-profit and governmental institutions. A former counterterrorism research fellow with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, she received her B.A. with honors from Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She currently writes the Achieving Conflict Freedom column at Psychology Today, and serves as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University, where she teaches a popular course on conflict freedom. In this episode, Stew and Jennifer discuss conflict, how to recognize your typical response patterns, and ways to ca