High-stakes conflict resolution
For executive-team fractures, founder tension, unresolved senior conflict and difficult strategic trade-offs.
BEN FOURIE · MASTER COACH
Resolve conflict
without losing trust.
Executive advisory, negotiation preparation and cohesion building for founders, senior leaders, executive teams and boards when relationships, reputation, money or mission are on the line.
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Calm thinking for
high-pressure rooms.
Ben combines executive coaching, principled negotiation, systemic team coaching and commercial experience as a Chartered Accountant to help leaders move through disagreement with clearer judgement and workable options.
Negotiation preparation and support
Clarify outcomes, alternatives, tradeables, objective standards and the message discipline needed for consequential negotiations.
Cohesion and trust building
Rebuild working relationships after leadership change, merger tension, strategy conflict or a breakdown in trust.
HOW THE WORK PROGRESSES
Address the issue.
Protect the relationship.
The work is practical, discreet and outcome-focused. It moves the group from positional argument to disciplined problem solving.
Diagnose the systemIdentify stakeholders, interests, power dynamics, decision rights and trust risks.
Prepare the negotiationDefine desired outcomes, walk-away options, tradeables and objective criteria.
Facilitate the roomSurface the unsaid, reduce defensiveness and keep people focused on the issue.
Rebuild cohesionTurn agreement into clear commitments, leadership behaviours and follow-through.
CREDENTIALS AND EXPERIENCE
Depth for complex
leadership situations.
Internationally accredited Master Coach with 15,000+ hours of individual and team coaching and facilitation experience.
Global leadership scale
Designed, quality-reviewed, facilitated and coached leadership work across Africa, Asia, North America and the United Kingdom.
Senior executive advisory
Experience with CEOs, founders, executive teams, boards and senior leadership groups.
Selected organisations
De Beers, Sappi, Nedbank, MTN, Accenture Africa, Anglo American, Standard Bank, RMB, DHL Africa, McDonald’s, MultiChoice and more.
TYPICAL OUTCOMES
Clarity, trust movement
and commitments that hold.
Leaders distinguish interests from positions, have more honest conversations, and leave with owners, timing and a way to repair drift.
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