Crucial Conversations

Crucial Conversations are unscripted online dialogues designed to surface "edge" topics often overlooked in mainstream business education—topics such as de-growth, toxic leadership, or structural inequality. GRLI's role is catalytic and curatorial: identifying the questions that matter, inviting a diversity of voices (including marginalised perspectives), and holding a format that supports honest inquiry rather than comfortable consensus. By providing a platform for difficult but necessary discussions, the series helps keep GRLI's strategic direction grounded in reality and responsive to emerging conditions. It also creates a growing archive of recordings and syntheses that partners can use for learning and teaching.