We create high performing teams and leaders

With our proven expertise in conflict management, executive and team coaching, mediation and facilitation, Balanced Curve designs and delivers memorable, results-driven programs that improve individual and organisational performance

Balanced Curve programs are designed
to help our clients:
  • Master difficult conversations and successfully manage conflict
  • Develop executive-level leadership skills
  • Build highly productive teams
  • Achieve successful outcomes by mediating discussions and facilitating activities

The approach of our team, led by Mark Rosenberg, is unique and our goal is simple: to help leaders, managers and their teams to improve their performance.

Since 2008, we’ve helped numerous Australian organisations and Government departments.

Mastering Hard Conversations

In Mastering Hard Conversations: Turning Conflict to Collaboration, Mark Rosenberg draws on his extensive experience as an executive coach and mediator to provide leaders with insights and practical tools to improve communication and master hard conversations.

Available as a paperback, ebook and audiobook.

Recent Articles

Hard Conversations Made Easy
20th April 2026

WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN COMMON? When you are involved in a conflict, identifying the common ground is often hard. You and the other person may both want great outcomes for the organisation. You may both respect each other’s talents. But this gets lost in the traffic. It can be useful gaining insight into what…

The Conversations Leaders Avoid — and Why They Matter Most
16th March 2026

Many communication problems that appear in organisations are not actually about communication at all. They are about conversations that never happen. A leader notices tension between colleagues but hopes it will resolve itself. A performance issue sits unresolved because addressing it feels uncomfortable. A disagreement in a meeting is quietly set aside rather than explored…

Failing to step up and have the hard conversation has consequences
15th April 2025

My experience is that when leaders consistently avoid hard conversations, their colleagues, team members and bosses start suggesting they are not up to the job. Being known as somebody who won’t have these hard conversations damages your reputation as a leader. It’s useful to ask yourself, ‘What would people think of me as a leader…