Chuck Wisner | SpeakerHub

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Chuck Wisner is president of Wisner Consulting. His client list includes companies such as Google, Rivian, Apple, Tesla, Harvard Business School, Ford, and Chrysler. Wisner was a senior affiliated mediator with the Harvard Mediation Program and was among the first to be certified through the Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching program at the Newfield Institute. He was also a specialist in organizational learning and leadership as an affiliate with MIT’s Center for Organizational Learning. Wisner is author of The Art of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact.

Current position (1)

President

Wisner Consulting

Achievements (1)

Author

The Art of Conscious Conversations

Degrees (2)

Bachelor of Architecture degree

Boston Architectural College

1979 to 1986

Ontology of Language - Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching

Newfield Professional Coaching Program

1990 to 1991

Presentations

Presentations (4)

The Untapped Power of Conversations

The Art of Conscious Conversations lays out and explores four types of conversations - storytelling, collaborative, creative and commitment. These are distinctions that increase our awareness of how and why conversations work and why they don't. The tools and practices of each conversation help us better understand our autopilot patterns, how to change them, and how to be more mindful and effective at work and home. Each type of conversation has tools and practices ranging from self-awareness to the promises we make that determine who we are and how we show up in conversation. Whether leading an organization, team, or a community group, the new insights can be practically applied to purposefully create more successful conversations.
Results:
• Aware of conversational patterns and transforming possibilities
• Learn to process private negative thinking into productive dialogue.
• Understand the relationship between awareness, the ego, and talking on autopilot and more...

Killing the Deadly Meeting

The only medium by which meetings succeed or fail is conversations. The tools explored in The Art of Conscious Conversations provides a new lens through which we better understand and implement conversational distinctions for making meetings, more dynamic, streamlined, and purposeful. No more filling time, going in circles, unclear results, or letting the loudest voice or most senior person in the room dominate. Having conscious conversations in meetings creates psychological safety, engagement, and wiser decisions.

Results:
• Learn to apply a methodology that increases participation and collaboration.
• Avoid bad decisions that bypass two critical conversations.
• Reconsider and change communication patterns in meetings.
• Learn how slowing down the conversations makes for better decisions.
• Reconsider the cultural meeting norms that make participation and success difficult

Turning Down Our Inner Critic

The committee in our head, always ready with advice, is a conversational pattern that derails our attention, listening, and ability to collaborate. A comment by a colleague or boss can send us spinning down a funnel of worry and despair. By exploring The Art of Conscious Conversations, we will examine the relationships between our egos, the voices in our head, that hamper our ability to effectively communicate. A fresh look at investigating the committee dramatically changes how we talk and listen in the face of conflict and stressful conversations. The methodology of processing our private unexplored thinking guides us to reconsider our desires and goals, examine our standards, and become more mindful and able to manage issues of power misalignment.

Conflict vs. Collaboration

When in conflict our minds default to defending our position and fighting our way to resolution. Too often we enter difficult conversations with a closed mind and heart.
The art of collaboration lies in our ability to open our minds and hearts so we can humbly hear and acknowledge other points of view and enter a space of mutual learning and discovery.
Results:
•Methodologies to check and inquire into our personal defensive stories.
•Learn the art of inquiry using four archetypal questions.
•Transfer our patterns of listening from closed to open
•Slowing down a conversation to purposefully generate ideas
•Avoid rushing into decisions and expand our field of vision.

Past talks (1)

Exploring Conscious Conversations

Manchester Public Library

Manchester Ma.

March 6, 2023

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Books & Articles (8)

The Art of Conscious Conversations, Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact

Berrett-Koehler,

2022

How to Have Conscious Conversations at Work

How to Stop the Nasty Inner Voice From Ruining Your Relationships

What To Do When Someone Undermines You at Work

Should You Work From Home or Go to the Office?

Had I Only Understood This Earlier in My Life

For Better Relationships At Home and Work, Focus on How You Talk and Listen

Questions to Ask for Better Conversations

Expertise (10)

Clients

Apple

Google

Ford Motor Company

Tesla

DTE Energy

Reviews

Testimonials (1)

Chuck Wisner was wonderful to work with. He was flexible and resposive and got us press materials and a list of questions to get the conversation started. We had a packed house and his presentation about the power of conversations left those attending delighted and inspired. The question and answer part of the talk didn't feel practiced and Chuck was prepared for some difficult and esoteric questions from the audience.
Maddy Willwerth
Adult Services Manager
Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library
Author’s Chat Night
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Why choose me?

I am author of The Art of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact.