Candid Conversation Workshop Series
Employees at every level.
We recommend starting with senior leaders to model the behaviours that create a high-ownership, productive, and decisive culture. From there, these workshops can be rolled out to team leads and individual contributors.
Many organizations also include high-potential employees to accelerate leadership capability early.
Tangible Outcomes
The Outcomes
Teams perform better because they:
Navigate healthy conflict instead of avoiding it.
Address underperformance sooner.
Communicate directly and constructively.
Make decisions faster.
Take ownership instead of escalating tension.
The result is a more decisive, productive culture built on trust and clarity.
Participants walk away with:
Greater confidence in having difficult conversations.
The ability to give immediate, honest, and constructive feedback.
Increased empathy and trust across teams.
Stronger solution-oriented dialogue.
Clear guidelines for communicating effectively in remote and hybrid environments.
The Process
How We Work
Build a High-Ownership, Direct, and Decisive Culture
This is a three-part workshop series delivered over three months.
Each session is 90 minutes (virtual or in-person), with one hour of pre-work to ensure participants arrive ready to practice.
The Series
Workshop 1: Radical Listening
Workshop 2: Radical Feedback
Workshop 3: Radical Questions
This is not lecture-based training.
REAL PLAY™
We use a highly experiential format where participants practice real conversations in real time. Using our proprietary REAL PLAY™ method, participants rehearse past and upcoming high-stakes conversations so they build both skill and confidence immediately. By getting real “reps,” participants build capability that transfers immediately into the workplace.
“Most of us put off hard conversations for too long. See if you can cut the length of time it takes to have hard conversations in half every time.”
Kyle Racki
CEO at Proposify
Proven Results
Results in Action
We partnered with a B2B software company to build a culture of direct communication and real accountability — strengthening performance and cross-functional collaboration.
The impact was measurable and visible.
After a series of workshops:
A client success team resolved ongoing conflict with engineering and agreed on a faster path to solving customer issues — improving retention and reducing internal friction.
The sales team secured alignment with product management on a previously rejected client project, unlocking new revenue.
The CEO saw the shift at the senior team level:
“Candid Conversations training has made our senior leadership conversations more honest. I am no longer avoiding conversations. Instead, we are managing conflicting ideas head-on and dealing with team underperformance faster — which supports our goal of efficient growth.”
CEO
Growth-Stage B2B SaaS Company
What Makes FIVEX Different
Daneal Charney has deep experience in building radically candid, high ownership and innovative cultures.
She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and conflict resolution coach, and the creator of proprietary methods, including REAL PLAY™.
Direct conversations. Faster decisions. Stronger performance.
