Heath L. CarlsonCorporate & leadership
The Conversation You’re Avoiding Is Costing You
Candour, accountability and the six moves that get stuck work moving again
Speaker · Author · AI Educator
The human side of change — and of AI.
Heath L. Carlson helps leaders and teams have the conversations that move them forward — through change, setbacks and the arrival of AI.
Heath L. Carlson · Creator of the CORNER Method™ · 32 years helping people through technology change
The CORNER Method™
Six moves. One question each.
A practical framework for the moment you’re stuck: from the conversation you’ve been avoiding to a next step you actually repeat.
- CConfrontWhat conversation am I avoiding?
- OOwnWhat is mine to own?
- RReframeWhat is this teaching or revealing?
- NName the Next StepWhat is the smallest meaningful action?
- EEngage OthersWho can help me move?
- RRepeatWhat choice does the person I am becoming make next?
Free · about six minutes
Where do you stall?
Everyone agrees with all six moves. Almost nobody makes all six. Answer 24 statements for one real situation, and you’ll see the exact step where you tend to stop — plus one move and a seven-day drill to get past it.
Your answers stay on your device. A self-reflection tool, not a psychological test.Keynotes & workshops
Two tracks. One framework.
Corporate & leadership
Leading Around the Corner: Change, AI and the Conversations That Move Teams
The human side of AI adoption, from someone who has led technology change since 1994
Personal development & conferences
Success Is Always Just Around the CORNER
The signature keynote: survival, reinvention and the voices at the table
Personal development & conferences
Reinvention Doesn’t Have an Expiration Date
Career change, second acts and choosing again — at any age
For teams: the Team Stall Point Report
See all ways to work togetherYour people take the assessment before or after the event. You see where the team stalls — anonymised — with a leadership debrief on what to do about it.
About Heath
Heath L. Carlson is a speaker, author and AI educator who helps leaders and teams have the conversations that move them forward — through change, setbacks and the arrival of AI. His career began in 1994 teaching accountants to trade paper ledgers for software, and over 32 years he has founded and led three technology firms and advised businesses as a fractional CTO. After surviving a near-death experience, he built the CORNER Method™: six practical moves from an avoided conversation to a repeated next step. He is the author of Lunch with Lucifer (forthcoming from Mark Victor Hansen Library) and will speak at the BNI Global Convention in Monaco in October 2026.
32years in technology, since teaching CPAs to leave paper ledgers in 1994
3technology firms founded and led: Computer Coach, Concerto Networks, My Computer Pro
6moves in the CORNER Method™ — one question each, built to be practised
24statements in the Stall Point Assessment™ — six minutes to find where you stop
The book · forthcoming
Lunch with Lucifer
Not a story about meeting the devil. A story about meeting yourself.