Embracing Difficult Conversations

The Power of Speaking the Truth

Most people hold back from telling the truth—not because they don’t know it, but because they fear what will happen when they say it.

Through The Riehl Method, we replace the illusion of transparency with a reality of trust. We uncover the unspoken truths that have been holding you and your team back—so you can lead with clarity, build aligned teams, and achieve lasting business success.

Is the Fear of Conflict
Holding Your Organization Back?

Avoiding difficult conversations doesn’t eliminate conflict—it just buries the real issues deeper. The Riehl Method helps organizations embrace truth-telling, creating a culture where transparency fuels trust, alignment, and lasting success.

Organizational +
Leadership Development

Build a leadership culture where difficult conversations are embraced—not avoided. Our customized programs help your team shift from time and energy wasted putting out endless operational fires to achieving measurable business results through transparency, accountability, and trust.

Speaking +
Workshops

Empower your audience with the mindset and tools to navigate high-stakes conversations with confidence. Jess delivers engaging, high-impact keynotes and workshops that challenge teams to replace dishonest harmony with honest discomfort, cultivating true alignment and results.

What You Gain When You Work With Riehl Consulting

Alignment

Bridge the gap between your vision of success and what success looks like through the lens of your leaders and individual contributors—ensuring clarity and shared direction.

Accountability

Develop a lighthearted blame-free approach to accountability, so people are willing to own a mistake, course correct and move forward.

Autonomy

Empower your leadership team and staff with the “why” behind every system and protocol, so they can make better decisions in real time—without hesitation or second-guessing.

Trust

Build deep trust across all levels of your organization through transparency, listening, and action. When people know they can speak the truth and be heard, alignment follows.

Retention

Eliminate the frustration that leads to disengagement. A culture of trust and transparency inspires people to give their best, stay invested, and champion your business.

Profitability

When difficult conversations are embraced instead of avoided, slippage is replaced with focus, efficiency, and results—positively impacting your productivity and bottom line.

Embracing Difficult
Conversations

On the other side of the difficult conversations you’re avoiding is a culture built on transparency and trust. Avoidance doesn’t eliminate conflict—it just allows misalignment, frustration, and disengagement to take root.

The truth exists whether you acknowledge it or not.

Through The Riehl Method, we don’t just encourage tough conversations—we equip you with the mindset, language, and actionable strategies to have those conversations effectively. This method combines deep reflection with practical tools, helping your team move from hesitation to confident, productive dialogue.

Rather than focusing solely on what’s being said, we reveal what’s not being said. When organizations embrace a culture of truth-telling, they eliminate the fear associated with speaking up and replace it with a foundation of trust, alignment, and real progress.

The greatest act of respect in any team? Telling one another the truth.

Client Experiences

  • “She was able to seamlessly help us navigate business growth while sustaining the culture that took so many years to build. Her combination of understanding people, how they work and all the emotions that go into the day-to-day, while also the ability to deeply analyze all business aspects is incredible.”

    Ryan Wilson | Owner of The Wilson Group, Real Estate

  • “I could clearly see her ability to cut through the noise, focus on the elephant in the room and develop a plan to deal with the root cause of some complex issues, all while making it seem simple to lean in and achieve our goals. She has such a keen ability to bridge gaps, developing trust at every level and in many cases finding the diamonds in the rough.”

    Rhonda Farrell | Director of Operations, Restoration Company

  • “If you are fortunate enough to meet and possibly work with Jess Riehl, you will immediately realize that she is an exceptionally talented business leader and coach. Jess is someone who installs a sense of curiosity and play, while inspiring whomever she is consulting, coaching, managing, or teaching to a core message: “you will succeed, if you find that place in yourself that you can trust.”

    Dr. Timothy Dukes | Leadership and Team Consultant, Co-Author of "Present Company: Cultivating Cultures of High Performance in Teams and Organization.”

Ready to Embrace Difficult Conversations?

Get Riehl Transparency

We help you create a culture of truth telling, so you can eliminate the fear associated with speaking up, and shift to a foundation built on trust.