The HR Mediators Podcast

What You'll Get:

Effective guidance from certified HR professionals & mediators - read more about our backgrounds below or on our LinkedIn

Ready-to-use tools including conversation scripts, quick checklists, and simple frameworks like TACTICS and RAISES - you'll have to listen to learn more!

A variety of wisdom from the perspectives of human resources, conflict resolution, and psychology gained from our education and experience

How Episodes Flow:

1. We read you a short scenario inspired by a real workplace situation - to protect privacy, we change all identifying details, adjust timelines, and blend similar accounts

2. We give you some time to reflect

3. We prove a short answer for anyone who just doesn't have the time to listen to the full chat

4. We dig into what’s really going on and how to work towards resolution

5. We like to end by giving you a few things we hope you take from the conversation

Who It's For:

Clear steps. Clean language. Results-focused guidance, one coffee chat at a time

Bottom Line:

Employees, managers, and HR/People leaders who want fewer blowups and more breakthroughs - without burning bridges

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Who We Are

Karen Gleason

Kendra Beseler

Kendra on LinkedIn

Karen on LinkedIn

Karen Gleason is an HR professional with 10 years of experience as an HR partner to organizational leaders, and 10 years in HR COE roles focused on compliance and dispute resolution.

Known for building strong cross-functional partnerships, Karen has supported professionals across healthcare, finance, engineering, hospitality, IT, retail, manufacturing, and sales. She’s passionate about identifying and solving challenges collaboratively, leading initiatives, fostering individual growth, and cultivating cultures of strong collaboration and synergy.

Outside of work, Karen volunteers as Fundraising Director on the BHS Drama Booster Board and serves as a Certified Mediator with the Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish County. She also enjoys spending time with loved ones, walking her dog, paddleboarding, traveling, and reading.

Kendra Beseler is known for driving global, tech-forward initiatives by starting where it matters most: understanding people: their needs, behaviors, and real-world constraints. She aligns strategy and execution, turning ambiguity into user-centric solutions, and leading cross-functional teams to measurable results.

A certified mediator with a background in HR and an MBA in International Business, she brings a global lens, empathy, structure, and practical tools to complex workplace conflicts.

Kendra is a hobbyist sommelier, passionate learner of technology and languages, volunteer with refugees and immigrants, cyclist, wife to a pretty awesome husband, and parent to one human and four dogs.