Liz Crowley

What happens when the biggest problem consuming a CEO or senior leader isn’t the market, the competition, or the product, but a relationship with someone sitting at the leadership table?

As the founder of HR Collaborative Solutions, I have spent more than 25 years helping leaders navigate exactly those kinds of situations.

I began my leadership career in the high-pressure world of investment banking, where strong personalities, enormous expectations, and difficult workplace relationships came with the territory. That experience ultimately led me into various senior HR leadership roles, where I became the person executives turned to when performance broke down, trust eroded, or a relationship with a key leader became increasingly difficult to manage.

Today, I work privately with CEOs and senior leaders facing high-stakes conflict with members of their leadership teams. I give them a confidential place to think out loud, separate facts from emotion, understand what’s really happening, and decide what needs to happen next.

And importantly, I'm not there to mediate between both sides. I advise the CEO or senior leader through the conflict.

My work helps leaders prepare for difficult conversations without unnecessarily escalating the conflict, determine whether trust and performance can be restored, and, when they can’t, plan a clear and dignified exit.

I believe the real cost of leadership conflict often isn’t the disagreement itself. It’s the distraction, second-guessing, delayed decisions, and lost momentum that come with leaving it unresolved.

My primary goal is simple: help CEOs and senior leaders move from a place of conflict to clarity so they can refocus on leading the business again.