Emotional intelligence: how to have the conversations teams often avoid

The way a founder handles pressure has a direct influence on how a team communicates. Rapid change and competing demands make honest conversations harder, as people hold back even when clarity is needed most. Emotional intelligence helps founders understand what their team is experiencing and create conditions where people feel safe to speak openly.

This webinar introduces the emotional intelligence skills that sit beneath effective communication. We’ll cover:

• The emotional skills many teams are missing, so they avoid difficult conversations

• How to spot the signs that could influence trust, pace and performance

• Ways to respectfully bring unspoken tension into the open

• How emotional confidence supports clearer decisions and stronger alignment

This session offers practical insight you can apply straight away to help your team speak more openly and work with greater clarity. It’ll be followed by a Q&A session.

If you can’t join live, we’ll send the recording to everyone who registers so you can catch up anytime.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Speaker bio

Cara Cunniff is a leadership and performance consultant, speaker and angel investor who understands the realities of early stage growth. A former British Army officer in Psychological Operations, she has seen how people make decisions when ambition, pressure and uncertainty meet. She has built and run ventures across the UK and Europe, giving her a grounded understanding of what it takes to keep a young business moving. 

Through her consultancy, The Business of Emotions, she helps leaders strengthen emotional intelligence, navigate tension and create cultures where people feel safe to speak openly and work with clarity under pressure. She brings insight, steadiness and emotional clarity to founders and teams who want better communication, stronger connection and clearer decisions in the moments that matter.

Her work spans corporate, public sector, hospitality and executive education environments, supporting organisations such as Babble Cloud, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.