A Leading People Café session with Gerry Murray
How to Have Conversations That Make a Difference
▾ Reserve My Place ▾You probably already know the conversation. The one sitting on your calendar for a week. The feedback you keep finding reasons to delay. The moment you felt something shift in the room, and said nothing.
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Why does this keep happening — even to people who are good at their jobs, good with people, good under pressure?
What you'll learn
The Conversation Compass
The four forces behind any conversation that matters, and a way to read, in the moment, which ones the situation is actually calling for.
Why your strongest force can trip you up
It's rarely about which force you're strongest in. It's whether your default is the most useful one for what's in front of you right now.
What you can do differently
Something you can use before your next challenging conversation, and, a way to measure your Compass preferences.
This session is for you if…
- You're a people manager, HR/L&D leader or coach — someone whose work depends on effective conversations.
- You've noticed that the conversations you dread most are rarely about facts. They're about timing, trust, and reading the room.
- You'd like 60 minutes with peers who take conversation seriously as a leadership skill.
Leading People Café – Format & Details
DATE
Thursday 24, September 2026
TIME
14:00 CEST
FORMAT
Live on Zoom
PRICE
Completely FREE
HOST
Gerry Murray
REPLAY
Shortly after
About Gerry Murray
Gerry has spent his career inside the conversations this Café is about — nine years in communications at DHL's World HQ, then consulting work, training and coaching with large global organisations and the EU, where the conversations that actually mattered were rarely the ones on the agenda.
Hosting 100+ episodes of the Leading People Podcast has put him inside hundreds more conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers on leadership, people and performance. Watching the same four things trip up smart, well-intentioned people again and again — in the boardroom, in corridors, in meetings, and on the stage — is what led him to create the Conversation Compass in the first place.
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Quick questions
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One last thing
The conversations that matter most rarely announce themselves in advance. They show up disguised as ordinary ones — a check-in, a piece of feedback, a disagreement that could go either way. What changes the outcome isn't more effort. It's knowing which of the four Conversation Compass forces the moment actually needs.
Sixty minutes. FREE. Bring your curiosity.
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