LIVE WITH RYAN DUNLAP | NOV 5-6, 2026
Untied Workshop:
Learn How to Lead Under Pressure
Design your personal conflict strategy plan for the moments leadership training never prepared you for.
Trusted By:
Live Coaching, Peer Training, and Experiential Learning
Every Leader Needs a Personal Strategy for Conflict.
Leadership is defined in critical moments, crisis, and conflict. Unfortunately most leaders have never been trained to manage those moments, leaving them susceptible to pressure, overwhelm, exhaustion, and frustration.
You're barely performing on the outside while overwhelmed on the inside.
You delay necessary conversations until small issues have grown into a big ones.
You've started questioning yourself instead of questioning the load you're carrying.
The cost is showing up at home, in your sleep, and in your health.
Conflict has become a pattern that you and others simply accept as "normal."
You don't recognize yourself anymore, and tired of pretending you're fine.
Who This Is For:
Founders and Entrepreneurs navigating overwhelm, anxiety, and pressure impacting their families and business.
Senior and Executive leaders facing burnout and exhaustion from complex pressures at home and at work.
Aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs looking to build capacity and resilience to step into higher levels of leadership.
ABOUT THE 2-DAY INTENSIVE
Two days to build a plan you'll lead from for years.
Through facilitated discussion and peer interaction, you’ll create a bespoke Conflict Clarity Plan in phases, each one shaped around your personality and the demands of your environments you operate in.
Every session adds a new layer, grounded in the F.I.R.S.T. Steps Framework. By the final session, those layers come together into a complete strategic plan you can lead from whenever conflict finds you.
What you will learn how to:
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The F.I.R.S.T. Steps Framework: Feelings, Interests, Relationships, Situations, and Tolls.
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Discover common pressure points and the early warning signs that show up before others see them.
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Design a personalized strategy to manage conflict and pressure that impacts you and those you lead.
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Respond to conflict challenges with greater clarity, intentionality, and command.
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How to build resilience and capacity to lead as your best self.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
Ryan’s session was extremely relevant to everyday life, in business as well as our personal lives!"
-G. Henninge, AMEX, Global Business Travel
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Ryan Dunlap
Founder and Chief Conflict Officer, Conflictish
Ryan is a former hostage negotiator turned conflict strategist. He deploys lessons from the field and the interrogation room into the boardroom, helping leaders discover practical ways to navigate high pressure situations well. Ryan holds an MS in Communication and Leadership and a graduate certificate in Strategic Communication Management from Purdue University. He is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), ICISF Crisis Intervention, and NAMI Crisis Intervention. Ryan is a certified DCJS Instructor, trained ADR Mediator, and certified Executive Leadership Coach.
Kevin Martinez
Program Director, Conflictish
Kevin is a retired law enforcement sergeant. Specializing in community engagement and instructional design, he is a nationally certified instructor who has spent his career developing leaders and training professionals to work under pressure across the United States and internationally. He is an IADLEST National Certified Instructor, a POST certified instructor, and he holds additional instructor certifications in De-escalation and Use of Force.
Workshop Details:
Day 1
Time
Session
9:00
9:30
11:00
11:15
12:30
1:30
3:00
3:15
4:30
Opening: The Balloon Exercise and Icebreaker
Module 1: Conflict and Pressure Principles
Break 15 min
Module 2: Strengths and Triggers, Second Balloon exercise
Lunch 60 min - Lunch Provided
Module 3: Live Coaching Session - Feelings
Break 15 min
Module 4: Interests & Needs 75 min
Close and Overnight Assignment
Day 2
Time
9:00
9:30
11:00
11:15
12:30
1:30
2:45
3:00
4:15
Session
Re-entry: overnight debrief in triads
Module 5: Relationship Management 90 min
Break 15 min
Module 6: Situations 75 min
Lunch 60 min - Lunch Provided
Module 7: Live Coaching Session - Tolls
Break 15 min
Module 8: Finalize The Conflict Clarity Plan
Commitments and close
Untied Workshop: A Two-Day Intensive for Leaders Under Pressure
A two-day reset for founders and senior leaders who are carrying more than anyone sees. Get clear on the pressure, learn what it is doing to you, and leave with a personal plan for leading well when it rises.
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2026, 8:30 AM EST – Nov 06, 2026, 4:30 PM EST
Conflictish HQ, Buford, GA, USA
About the event
2-Day Leadership Intensive | November 5–6 | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Daily
The higher you lead, the more pressure you carry. Burnout, overwhelm, and isolation at the top are not signs of a weak leader. They are often signs of a leader under pressure. And pressure that stays inside a leader does not stay there. It shows up in their decisions, conversations, and ultimately, their entire organization.
Led by former hostage negotiator Ryan Dunlap, this two day intensive walks leaders through the F.I.R.S.T. Steps Framework from Ryan's game-changing leadership book, How to Untie a Balloon. You will tackle real pressures you are carrying right now and work it through them while building your own Conflict Clarity Plan: a personal, practical system for identifying, simplifying, and mitigating pressure that is
Why you need to be in the room:
You have spent years investing in others. Almost none of that investment has gone into the person carrying the weight of it all; you.
You belong in this room if:
You are performing on the outside and pressurized on the inside
You have noticed yourself leading your people, teams, and organization below your greatest potential
The cost is already showing up somewhere: your sleep, your health, your home, or the way you treat others
You have no one at your level you can be honest with about what leading actually costs you
This is not a seminar you can sit in the back of. It is two days with a small room of leaders from other companies who carry what you carry, and it asks something of you. What you get back is clarity, a plan, and the capacity to lead the way you already know you can.
What you will learn:
The F.I.R.S.T. Steps Framework: Feelings, Interests, Relationships, Situations, and Toll
How to identify your triggers and the early warning signs that show up before anyone else sees them
A systematized way to reduce the impact that pressure has on you and those in your care
How to build resilience and capacity to lead as your best self
All attendees will receive:
A personally signed copy of How to Untie a Balloon: A Negotiator's Guide to Avoid Popping Under Pressure
The F.I.R.S.T. Steps workbook and a completed Conflict Clarity Plan
Breakfast and lunch both days
Tickets
General Admission
This ticket secures entry for day one and day two of the Conflict Management Workshop. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
$647.00
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