April Networking Event - Staying Emotionally Agile During Conflict

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2025

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Location: MicroLab

Snacks & drinks included

When conflict shows up in your work or business, between colleagues, with a key hire, inside your team, the stakes feel personal. It's not just a workplace issue. It's your relationships, your culture, your energy on the line.

Whether you're running your own business or navigating a corporate environment, most of us push through. We manage it, sidestep it, or let it simmer. What's much harder and far more valuable is staying clear-headed in the middle of it. Emotionally agile. Clear-headed. Able to respond from values rather than reaction.

This evening brings together women entrepreneurs and corporate professionals for a candid conversation about exactly that. You'll get a practical lens on your own conflict patterns, tools you can use the next day, and time with people who know that how we work together matters just as much as the work itself.

Key Takeaways

• Recognize your conflict patterns - Understand what happens in your body and mind when conflict arises, before it shapes your response.
• Use emotions as data, not noise - Learn how emotional agility (Dr. Susan David's framework) helps you unhook from difficult feelings without dismissing them.
• Respond from values, not reaction - Practical tools to stay grounded in what matters, even when a conversation gets hard.

Why Join:

• You've ever felt flooded in a tense conversation and wished you could respond differently
• You lead a team, run a business, or work inside one, and conflict tends to go underground
• You're curious about what emotional agility actually looks like in practice, not just in theory
• You want to meet other women who take the human side of work seriously
• You're ready for an evening that's honest, practical, and genuinely useful

Evenings like this are rare, where the conversation is real, the room is safe, and you leave with something you can actually use.

Diana Vermeul - Executive Conflict Strategist · Organizational Ombuds Consultant · Certified Emotional Agility Practitioner

Diana is the founder of Harmonikon - Harmonised Conflict and the creator of the Harmonikon Method, a framework for building conflict-resilient organizations during high-stakes transitions. With nearly a decade of international experience as a dispute resolution expert, ombuds practitioner, mediator, and leadership advisor, supporting organizations ranging from early-stage scaleups to global institutions with more than 20,000 employees. She brings both organizational depth and human clarity to complex workplace dynamics.

She is one of a small number of globally certified Emotional Agility Practitioners, trained under Dr. Susan David's framework, which she weaves into her work with leaders navigating the messier, more human side of organizational change.

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