With more than 20 years of combined law enforcement, ministry, and executive leadership experience, Ryan Dunlap is a highly sought-after conflict and crisis management expert. He is the founder and chief conflict officer at Conflictish, a conflict strategy firm dedicated to helping leaders prevent, respond to and overcome conflict and crisis challenges. He is the creator of The Real Tact Model™, a custom framework for developing conflict competence. To date, he’s coached leaders around the globe and in several industries including biotech, government, nonprofit, faith-based, health care, pharma, education, food and beverage, and commercial construction, helping them to improve their conflict presence.
Dunlap is a former SVU detective, SWAT hostage negotiator, and crisis intervention officer who has facilitated hundreds of high-stakes interviews, interrogations, and negotiations. As a certified DCJS instructor and field training officer, Dunlap has trained and developed hundreds of law enforcement personnel.
He holds a master’s in communication and leadership, as well as a graduate certificate in strategic communication management from Purdue University, and earned his bachelor’s in criminal justice from Saint Leo University.
