EP 100: The Power of Healthy Tension with Tim Arnold
Tension and conflict are inevitable in our work with clients and within our teams and in today’s rapidly changing world, they can feel more intense than ever. While we often try to avoid discomfort, today’s guest shows how embracing tension can actually become a competitive advantage. After hearing Tim Arnold speak at a recent company retreat, his message resonated so strongly that I wanted to share it with you.
For over 20 years, leadership expert Tim Arnold has helped organizations from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits navigate complexity and drive meaningful results. Drawing on his diverse experience and bestselling books Lead with AND and The Power of Healthy Tension, Tim teaches leaders how to harness “AND” thinking in an either/or world.
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The Power of Healthy Tension with Tim Arnold
Tension and problems are just human nature - we will come across it in our business with our clients and even with members of our team. And over the last few years, as the world has been changing, it feels these emotions and tensions are even stronger than ever before. Human nature sometimes pushes us to stray away from the tension and conflict, but today’s guest is here to tell us that we can harness it to actually be a competitive advantage! Tim Arnold spoke at a recent company retreat and his message resonated with me so much that I wanted to share this story with you.
For over two decades, Tim Arnold has empowered organizations—from Fortune 500 companies to grassroots non-profits—to navigate leadership, change, and complexity with confidence.
Tim is a leadership development expert. He has spent over two decades helping leaders navigate complexity, build effective teams, and drive results within organizations such as the United Nations, World Vision, UPS, Allstate Insurance, and Stanford Medicine. His diverse experiences, from launching, scaling, and selling a successful for-profit business to leading a homeless shelter, have provided him with invaluable insights into the challenges and triumphs of leadership.
His expertise is particularly focused on helping leaders harness the power of “AND” thinking in an Either/Or world—a concept central to his bestselling books, “Lead with AND” and “The Power of Healthy Tension.”
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EP 100: The Power of Healthy Tension with Tim Arnold





