Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm helping

leaders activate performance and change without the burnout. We do leader activation boot camps,

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Today's episode is an interview that I got to do with Amanda Perez

Leader. Amanda has led award-winning health education, capacity building, and organizational

development programs for more than 20 years. She's an expert, speaker, and facilitator,

and most recently has completed a professional certification in conflict resolution,

mediation, and peace building from Columbia University. In this conversation, I invite Amanda to share

some insights with me on what she's seeing and hearing in the workplace with regards to conflict,

and to share some actionable tips we can all implement to help drive cohesion over

conflict. I hope you enjoy. Amanda Perez, Leader, thank you so much for joining me on the

Modern Mentor podcast today. I'm so excited you're here. Me too. I've been looking forward to this.

Absolutely. So quick background, full disclosure. Amanda, you and I went to college

together in a year that will stay anonymous. We were in the same, we were at a big school,

but we were in a pretty small major together. We knew of each other, but we really have only

gotten to know each other meaningfully as adults.

Within the past year or so, and for me, it has been a tremendous pleasure.

I have learned so much from you already, and I am so excited to bring all of your wisdom to my audience today.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Awesome. So Amanda, you are currently a practitioner of conflict resolution within organizations. That is a, keep me honest, a certification,

I think that's the right word, that you obtained fairly recently. You are, historically, you're more of an organizational

psychology, organizational development practitioner. And in the past couple years, you've opted to

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