Six hours, lasting change
Any team. Any learner. Any sector.
Better Conversations is an evidence-based communication framework that works across organisations, education, and research settings.
Who We Are
Nice to meet you
We are The Better Conversations Foundation, dedicated to helping people around the world connect on a human level. We develop and support open resources to help people listen to each other and be heard.
Better Conversations improve collaboration, deepen learning, and strengthen research. We work with a select few organisations each year, to effectively measure impact.
What We Do
Small changes, real impact
Small shifts can have deep and lasting impact. We've distilled the essence of good conversational skills into behaviours that stick—whether you're leading a team, teaching a class, or conducting research.
No fluff. Just a clear and reliable framework that's easy to understand and apply immediately.
For Organisations
- • Reduces wasted time and rework
- • Improves staff retention
- • Scales across departments
- • Works alongside AI tools
For Educators
- • Develops metacognitive skills
- • Supports pastoral care
- • Fits within curriculum
- • Adaptable across age groups
For Researchers
- • Standardised, reliable intervention
- • Evidence-based framework
- • Open-source approach
- • Research collaboration opportunities
One framework, multiple settings, far-reaching impact.
How It Works
Three interconnected elements
Evidence-based framework
Built on psychology, innovation and leadership research alongside organisational experience. Our materials are freely available. Partnership provides expertise in adapting them for your context.
Community of practice
Supported by a global network of practitioners sharing insights across sectors. Partnership connects you with experienced leaders and practitioners who've successfully implemented Better Conversations in different sectors.
Open & accessible resources
All materials transparently licensed under Creative Commons. Partnerships add implementation guidance, facilitator development, and sustained support for organisational change.
Why Partner With Us
Implementation that sticks
Guided implementation
Work directly with experienced leaders and practitioners who've successfully embedded Better Conversations across healthcare, education, and corporate contexts.
Measured impact
Co-design approaches to measure impact and gather participant experiences, tailored to your specific research question or organisational challenges. Apply it continuously and track the results.
Sustained support
Receive ongoing support to develop internal capacity throughout your organisation and the community it serves. Better Conversations diffuse naturally, with ease and in surprising ways.
Ready to transform your organisation?
Partner with us for deep implementation support—or explore our open-access materials to see our approach.
Choose Your Path
Find the right partnership model for your context
For Organisations
Transform your workplace culture with deep implementation support, facilitator development, and measurable impact.
For Educators
Embed conversation skills in your curriculum with guidance on pedagogy, assessment, and student outcomes.
For Researchers
Collaborate on research using our standardised intervention to study teams, groups, and conversation dynamics.
Connect with us
We'd love to hear from you
We developed a course that brought people together in our sister company. Then educators asked if they could use it. And researchers wanted to study it. We thought other people might like it too.
So we made a standard course that is open and easy to access and set up a community, because we knew we'd learn faster working with others. We left space for people to add their own content, to make this their own so it spreads further.
We think we have co-created something quite special. And now we're looking for the right partners to take this work deeper. We work with a select few organisations and educators each year co-designing implementation, developing internal capacity, and measuring real-world impact together.
Would you like to help us make a difference?