Dana Caspersen is a conflict engagement specialist and author helping leaders navigate and transform conflict with clarity and impact.
WORK
Over the last 15 years, Dana has designed and led trainings internationally and worked as a consultant, coach, and speaker with organizations across sectors — from New York’s Lincoln Center to the Planetary Science Institute to Service Corporation International — on constructive conflict engagement.
In this work, she has drawn on her extensive experience and training as a conflict engagement specialist (MS, Conflict Studies and Mediation) and decades as an award-winning performing arts leader.
Dana’s books have been translated into eight languages and are rich, accessible resources for supporting real change.
Today, Dana works in small, intentional settings with leaders who want to transform how they meet conflict — not through quick fixes, but through hands-on, illuminating work. Her 10-month flagship program, Conflict Fluency, creates the conditions and community that support transformative change.
Selected awards:
BESSIE AWARD for Outstanding Creative Achievement
LAWRENCE OLIVIER AWARD for Outstanding Achievement, nominated
SELECTED ARTICLES
Leader to Leader: The Power Matrix: How Leaders can Lead Without Coercion
New York Times Profile:
Dana Caspersen
SELECTED PODCASTS
SELECTED TALKS
Conflict Is a Place of Opportunity
Conflict and Physical Thinking:
Keynote talk of the German Dance Prize Symposium (English)
SELECTED PROJECTS
The Exchange
An action dialogue on violence
The Polarity Party
An immersive, participative event on polarization
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Under | Stand
An interactive dialogue on racism
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BOOKS: FEATURED IN
SELECTED CLIENTS
Through its dynamic disruptions, every conflict is proposing constructive change.
Dana Caspersen