Relational Intelligence Specialist, Speaker & Author
Turn important difficult or conflictive conversations into opportunities to effectively connect, transform, and create collaboration and innovation. High-achieving leaders loose too much valuable time and resources trying to resolve misunderstandings, and conflicts that lead to low engagement and reduced productivity. Leaders spend at least 75% of their time communicating, yet, half of all leaders have poor dialogue skills, costing their companies millions of dollars annually.
In the same way, busy high achieving couples complain they “don’t communicate well,” and there is conflict and negativity that is hard to overcome.
Do YOU know how to have effective conversations that connect? Open dialogue engages the often-forgotten power of conversation to address challenges and transform relationships. By leading through conversations you can close the gap between leadership potential and performance. By having conversations that connect you can re-ignite your love and enjoy a positive connected relationship.
How to Lead Conversations that Connect
I’m a holistic thought leader, international speaker, and trainer. As a communication and transformation expert with more than 30 years of experience, I offer my unique interdisciplinary perspective on Leadership Development, Communication, and Systems Thinking, to create safe spaces for open conversations that connect and transform. The resulting deep transformation takes people from negative conflictive interactions to effective and happy ones fostering effective communication and productive actions so they can have more successful, fulfilled, and balanced lives.
I can guarantee you that if you want to be more effective and have more influence, conversations that connect are your best and quickest way to remove obstacles, facilitate engagement, increase productivity, and allow for change.
The type of conversations we encourage are based on the principles of dialogue. Dialogue comes from the Greek root dia meaning across or through, and logos which means word or study. The picture or image that this suggests is a stream of meaning flowing among, through, and between us.
“Conversations persuade, connect, and drive action”
Whether you are looking to progress in your leadership journey, create a culture of open communication in your organization or communicate better at home, Transformative Conversations® will give you the tools you need to safely navigate through the challenges of the 21st century.
Leadership
Leaders spend at least 75% of their time communicating, yet, half of all leaders have poor dialogue skills, costing their companies millions of dollars annually. Transformative Conversations® Consulting works with top-tier business leaders. We provide expert advice and effective strategic management of your important, often difficult conversations around conflict resolution, negotiations, and executive team challenges and disagreements. We also help you plug in the human factor in the change equation. See how we can help.
Couples
You don't just fall out of love. You forget to make your relationship a priority and it takes you to emotional bankruptcy. You stop having fun and nurturing love and intimacy. Your relationship becomes boring and conflictive. Over time, a chasm opens and constant negativity makes life miserable. Transformative Conversations help high-achieving couples go from negativity and conflicts to rekindle love and connection. Leave bickering and negativity behind and actively reclaim a more loving and positive future. Old wounds can be healed, and trust and intimacy can be re-established.
Women
You thought reaching your next milestone would make you happy. Instead, you are struggling with stress, negativity, and feel drained instead of fully alive. Transformative Conversations will take you in a journey to transition from stress, worry, and negativity to RESET your brain for a heart-coherent life full of happiness, purpose, and freedom to thrive. This program is for women over 45 who want to get out of their comfort zone, stop spinning their wheels, and start living their dream. The right mindset and attitude are the foundation for a happy and successful life.
Blog
Dr. Ada publishes articles of interest. There are many blogs already published. This is information freely shred for your growth and benefit. Take advantage of it!
The book Transformative Conversations is a superb resource to any leader, or coach, who is working to improve their communication as a leader. It’s also helpful for people in relationship. What is special about this book is the way Dr. Ada weaves wisdom from many sources into a useful flow that informs the reader about not only why this is a valuable subject, it gives clear guidance on how to pull it off.
This book provides practical tools and guidance to transform your communications by helping you create deeper understanding and meaning. The text is full of effective illustrations, stories, examples, helpful exercises and even prescriptive guidance on specifically what to say to facilitate participation, collaboration, dialogue and handle certain difficult situations.
If you want to know how dialogue helps to balance the amount of listening and asserting occurring between people at work, and how to ignite engagement and commitment to accomplishing business priorities, this book provides instructions on both.
Buy the book Transformative Conversations for yourself. Buy multiple copies to distribute to your team and friends. Leave a review of the book on Amazon. Donate the book, especially to non-profit organizations to widen the conversation. Above all, join the conversation!
Tell your colleagues, friends and family about the importance of reviving the art of conversation. There's no better way to make an impact than to become an active advocate yourself. Join now and make an impact!
Learning to take back control of my life by controlling the way I think and react has made a huge difference for me. I was looking at myself as a failure and feeling like one. My stress levels were getting out of control. I found myself getting angry easily, and blaming everybody and everything for the way I felt. By becoming crystal clear on what I needed to change and how to do it, and by feeling supported in the process, I can now smile again and feel empowered to be more successful in my work and in my life. –Peter
At Transformative Conversations Consulting we help people have important strategic conversations. Principal analyst, conversation strategist, dialogue facilitator expert, and mediator Dr. Ada Gonzalez uses her exceptional interdisciplinary skills and experience to assist clients with complex, highly structured engagement, planning, conflict resolution and change efforts.
Through the years, Dr. Ada has spent more than 200,000 hours facilitating complex and often conflictive conversations among teams, couples, and leaders. She helps organizations, business group and couples going through a relationship crisis to prevent lockdown and find the best positive outcome. She is an expert in developing respectful, honest and constructive approaches to address difficult issues.
Dr. Ada Gonzalez helps people flourish by integrating what others often treat separately. She combines neuroscience, psychology, relationships, communication, leadership, personality, and faith into one coherent, practical philosophy of human flourishing. Then she translates that philosophy into everyday conversations and decisions that change lives.
