Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can’t agree — on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground — over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER Julia Dhar · Business strategist, champion debater BCG’s Julia Dhar is a champion of ideas, facts and productive disagreement.

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