Resolving Conflict The Positive Way

Bill Durkin, Founder of One Positive Place, is an inspirational speaker, author, and coach. For over 30 years, Bill has been teaching leaders how to help their teams thrive and families flourish.  His unique and positive approach has produced results for over 40,000 leaders throughout the United States, Canada, England, South America, Spain and Africa.  Bill has been president of two non-profit boards and Chairman of the Corporate Network for the Association of Corporate Growth in Chicago. He also served 4 years as an alderman in Darien, Illinois.

Bill attended Loyola University on a basketball scholarship and graduated with a degree in marketing.  He lives with his wife and two boys in Darien, Illinois.

His Rotary talk will focus on Resolving Conflict The Positive Way.   It’s based on his new book coming out in 2017.  Regardless of whether you’re involved with business battles or family feuds, your life as a leader is filled with conflict. It’s not a question of if but rather when you’ll have to deal with your next disagreement. The only uncertainty regarding conflicts is whether your relationships and results tend to get stronger or weaker after you collide with a co-worker, client, family member, or friend.  The quality of our relationships and results will not get better by eliminating conflict from our lives…improving how we handle them will.