#115 - Amy Edmonson: Cultivating Psychological Safety to Foster Risk-Taking and Innovation

Episode notes

Amy C. Edmondson the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, renowned for her research over the last 20 years on psychological safety and teaming. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and more. Named by Thinkers50 in 2021 as the #1 Management Thinker in the world, Amy’s TED Talk “How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team” has been viewed over three million times. She is the author of The Fearless Organization, Teaming, and most recently, Right Kind of Wrong. In this episode, we dive into the complex territory of navigating risk and failure in the midst of our ever-uncertain world. In this conversation, Amy shares: What psychological safety is - and what it is not, with the central idea being grounded in allowing people the space to experiment and fail.

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