Executive and Leadership Coaching for Difficult Workplace Conversations

The conversation keeps getting postponed. The tension does not.

Through Finding Resolution Consulting, Ann Rosser specializes in workplace conflict coaching for leaders and professionals facing difficult workplace situations—before unresolved tension damages trust, confidence, working relationships, or team performance.

When Leaders and Professionals Face Difficult Workplace Situations

Situations I Help With →

Workplace situations can become difficult in many different ways. Sometimes the issue is clear. Sometimes you only know that it is taking up more time, attention, or energy than it should.

The examples below reflect some of the situations leaders and professionals bring to coaching. If none of them feels quite right, start with Difficult Workplace Conversations.

Manager pausing mid-conversation with a team member — employee accountability coaching

You keep repeating yourself but nothing changes

At some point, you begin wondering whether people are taking you seriously.

When you’ve said it and your team still doesn’t act →

Professional pausing before speaking up in a meeting

You see the issue but don’t speak up

You go along, then deal with the consequences later.

When you question the action asked of you but don’t speak up →

Leader reworking a report already submitted by their team — delegation and micromanaging coaching

You take on too much and become the default

Even when work is assigned, it keeps coming back to you.

When everything falls on you and you become overwhelmed →

Manager preparing for a direct conversation after recurring pushback from a direct report

You avoid addressing the pattern because the stakes feel high

The same issue keeps repeating with the same person.

When a direct report keeps pushing back →

Colleague pausing before raising a concern with a peer — conflict coaching for difficult conversations at work

You keep adjusting yourself to avoid friction

You carry the frustration instead of addressing it.

When you’re dealing with an uncomfortable situation with a colleague →

How Workplace Conflict Coaching Helps With Difficult Workplace Conversations

How I Help

Most workplace situations do not become difficult overnight.

Usually something has already been building for a while:

  • conversations that are being avoided
  • expectations that remain unclear
  • tension people are adapting around
  • situations that keep repeating
  • frustration that is no longer staying contained.

Through workplace conflict coaching, I help leaders and professionals address these situations more clearly and constructively before they become harder to repair.

“It was really great to have someone outside I could talk to and ask: is this normal?”

— Coaching client

Ann Rosser, executive and leadership coach and founder of Finding Resolution Consulting

About Ann Rosser

Experience Behind the Work

For more than 20 years, Ann Rosser has worked with leaders, professionals, and teams facing workplace challenges, communication issues, and situations that have become increasingly difficult to address alone.

Her background includes senior executive experience in corporate and association environments—including a Fortune 500 organization and a national medical association—as well as ongoing work in higher education and experience in federal-government settings.

Ann is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and a Supreme Court of Virginia certified mediator.

Clients often describe her as calm, practical, direct when needed, and easy to talk to.

Organization-Sponsored Coaching and Workshops for Teams

Organizations can engage Ann to support a leader facing a difficult workplace situation or to work with a team through workshops using DISC or Gallup/CliftonStrengths.

Sometimes the hardest part is knowing how to start the conversation.