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Moderated Conversations & Panels

Turning complex, polarized topics into conversations people can actually learn from
Overview
  • Create psychological safety in conversations where stakes and emotions are high.
  • Keep discussions grounded in evidence without shutting down disagreement.
  • Surface underlying assumptions, incentives, and blind spots shaping opinions.
  • Prevent polarization, performative conflict, and oversimplification.
  • Help audiences leave with clearer thinking, not just louder opinions.
Details

What These Conversations Enable

Panels often fail because no one is managing the psychological dynamics in the room. My background in behavioral science allows me to work with the psychology of opinion-forming and bias in real time — helping people speak more clearly, feel safer doing so, and engage with opposing views without the conversation breaking down.

Such approach makes it possible to:

  • disagree without escalation or defensiveness,
  • explore nuance without losing momentum,
  • include multiple perspectives without turning the discussion into a shouting match,
  • surface what’s really driving opinions beneath polished arguments,
  • give audiences insight they can actually use after the event.
When we understand how people form opinions and beliefs, conversations stop breaking down.

Topics These Panels Are Especially Suited For

I’m most often invited to moderate conversations where the subject matter is sensitive, complex, or emotionally charged, including:
  • Technology, AI, and fear-driven narratives: why anxiety spreads faster than facts, how uncertainty shapes adoption, and how to introduce AI without stripping work of meaning.
  • Work, wellbeing, and burnout: why exhaustion persists even in organizations that genuinely care.
  • Leadership and organizational change: why change efforts meet resistance, and how cognitive biases shape leadership decisions.
  • Social polarization and identity: why debates slide into “us vs. them” thinking, and how identity and evolutionary psychology shape public discourse.
  • Ethics and responsibility: how good intentions collide with real human behavior in CSR, public policy, and organizational decisions.
In an era of polarization, burnout, and rapid change, understanding human behavior is no longer optional.

How I Moderate Conversations

I moderate conversations by understanding what drives them. In practice, that means:
  • listening for psychological drivers, not just stated opinions,
  • naming patterns when discussions start to derail,
  • slowing things down when certainty arrives too quickly,
  • challenging oversimplified narratives without putting people on the defensive,
  • creating space for disagreement without turning it into spectacle.
References
See What My Clients Have to Say
Jowita Michalska
Jowita Michalska
Digital European Union Ambassador | Chapter Ambassador at Singularity Group
Miro Konkel
Miro Konkel
Journalist at Puls Biznesu
Maciej Noga
Maciej Noga
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Grupa Pracuj
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