Anna Lecat

Anna Lecat is a Conflict and Communication Expert, 3-time global CEO, TEDx speaker, EO Certified Speaker, and Amazon Best Selling Author of Loving Conflict: Creating Collaboration Where Others See Division.

For 28 years she has built and led companies across 3 continents and facilitated more than 1,000 leaders. Born in Ukraine, Anna spent 20 years in China, then lived in the United States, and now calls France home. She works in English, French, Mandarin, and Russian.

Anna holds a master's in international relations and diplomacy from Central European University, completed executive education at Harvard Business School and Berkeley, and continues her research across conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, and psychology.

She helps people resolve conflict in the relationships that matter most: a co-founder, a board, an executive team, a spouse, a family business, or a family facing succession. Loving Conflict™ is the methodology she built running her own companies. It teaches 5 principles for staying in a hard conversation, disagreeing well, and repairing trust when it breaks, taught through practice and through the language of Argentine tango, which she has danced since 2006.

The settings change, but the question stays the same: how do we stay in the conversation when it would be easier to leave?

Her answer is practical: conflict is not the problem. Avoiding it is.