It's All Your Fault
Bill Eddy and Megan Hunter explore the five types of people who can ruin your life — people with high-conflict personalities — and how they weave themselves into our lives in romance, at work, next door, at school, places of worship, and just about everywhere, causing chaos, exhaustion, and dread for everyone else.
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Megan and Bill co-founded the High Conflict Institute in 2008. Between them, they've trained more than 500,000 professionals worldwide and written some of the most-referenced books in the field.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder San Diego, CABill pioneered the High Conflict Personality (HCP) Theory and is viewed globally as the leading expert on managing disputes involving people with high-conflict personalities. Author of 25+ books.
Megan Hunter, MBA
CEO & Co-Founder Scottsdale, AZMegan is HCI's CEO and a leading expert on high-conflict personalities — particularly in workplace, customer service, government, ombuds, and religious settings.
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Worth Repeating: Why Some People Go Zero to Sixty with Anger (And Others Don't)
One of our favorite deep dives, revisited: why do some people go from calm to enraged in seconds flat, while others barely flinch? Bill and Megan dig into the science — and it might change how you…
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Worth Repeating: A Retired Judge's Playbook for Family Court Success
In this classic episode from the archives, Bill and Megan sit down with retired Judge Bruce R. Cohen, who spent 24 years as a family law attorney and nearly 20 years on the bench in Arizona's…
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From Case-by-Case to Conflict-Smart: High Conflict at Work, Part 4 of 4
High conflict behavior at work rarely stays contained to one person or one incident — it spreads across teams, drains HR's time, and quietly drives turnover and burnout long before anyone names it as…
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From Reacting to Responding: High Conflict at Work, Part 3 of 4
High conflict behavior doesn't just disrupt your team—it follows leaders home, costs organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars, and gets worse when managers react without a plan. The question…
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What HR Keeps Missing: High Conflict at Work, Part 2 of 4
High conflict at work rarely announces itself. By the time it becomes a formal HR complaint or a leadership crisis, the patterns were visible much earlier—and the tools most organizations rely on to…
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Why Workplace Conflict Is Surging: High Conflict at Work, Part 1 of 4
Workplace conflict is costing US businesses $359 billion a year—and behind a disproportionate share of that damage is high conflict behavior: the kind that ignores limits, escalates faster than most…
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