Feeling Safe Means…

Feeling creative

Feeling heard

Feeling engaged

Feeling human

People Crave Feelings of Safety

And when your people feel safe, the results are profound.

How can we ask your people to share their creative ideas or bring their best selves if they are worried about experiencing harm?

My research found that experiencing any form of harm causes someone to disengage, check out, shut up, and ultimately leave.

But when we center safety, we see increased engagement, creative decision-making, and collective buy-in. 

In the last few years, 60% of people feel detached at work, and 19% feel outright miserable. 44% of workers suffer from high stress daily.

Only 3 out of 10 employees feel like their voice matters at work. 40% of people do not trust that their organizations will use their feedback to create change.

These adverse sensations have real-world costs, an estimated $8.1 trillion.

Having spent years studying how to prevent the most egregious harmful behaviors, I wanted to understand if there was any link between my previous work and these emerging trends. I started with a simple question.

"What does it mean to feel safe at work?"

Responses aligned with leading research. People yearned to express their identities and share their voices without fear of reprisal. Next, I explored what caused people to feel unsafe and how this impacted their emotions and behaviors. Something alarming emerged.

The severity of a source of harm mattered less than how it was acknowledged, addressed, and resolved. Further, in cultures where people struggled to speak up about minor issues, they felt incapable of speaking up about severely toxic behaviors.

A Lack of Safety Hurts Us All

How I Help Organizations

Although the business case for building safe cultures is apparent, every organization's path is unique. There are proven ways to cultivate cultures where people feel seen as their most human selves and heard when voicing their creative ideas.

Speaking & Education

I train using a system-based approach that blends original research, people-centered education, and proven, real-world best practices to ensure collective buy-in. 

Research Consulting

When we ask human-centered questions, we identify human-centered solutions. Let us help you figure out why your people might withhold their voices and how to turn their creative ideas into actionable solutions. 

Create Safe Research

We offer assessments and benchmarking to identify your safety gaps, assess why your people might withhold their voices, and outline tactics to drive change while building trust.

Why I Am Committed to Creating Safe Cultures

Countless business cases showing billions lost due to low engagement, missed innovative ideas, and higher turnover demonstrate the worth of creating cultures free from all harm. 

I care more about the human case. Every one of us has felt exhausted due to work. We've all experienced undue stress. We've all faced a time when our voices went unheard. Or one of our identities felt dismissed.

People crave safety. And we all deserve to feel safe. When we center feelings of safety, we create organizations where people are excited to belong and feel genuinely included.

Let's imagine safer, people-centered spaces together.