Psychological safety isn’t just the subject of the event.
It’s how the event is designed.

Proactive, Responsive, & Restorative: A Psych Safety Tool Exchange

Minette Norman, Karolin Helbig, Helen Sanderson Ph.D., Dima Boulad, Wilder Akasha Grace

A tool you've only heard about is just an idea, however, a tool you've practiced is something you can actually use. This session gives you the change to experiment and practice real tools for psychological safety. In rounds of proactive tools and responsive and restorative tools, you'll learn a new tool, try it on with the group, and debrief honestly on how it landed and how you'd adapt it for your own context. Expect to leave with at least two tools you can immediately apply and make it your own.

The New Interpersonal Risk: Why AI Needs Psychological Safety

Penny Locaso, Carl Miller, Michaela Zuckova

Somewhere in your organization today, someone shipped work an AI wrote and told no one. Someone else is quietly ashamed of how much they use it. A third has their name on a document they don't fully understand. This is the new interpersonal risk, and whether people carry it openly or in silence depends on the climate around them. The GRIN Labs founders Carl Miller, Penny Locaso, and Michaela Zuckova bring real case studies from the teams that lived them, including a global technology company and an international consumer brand, showing how those teams wrote their own rules and what changed when they did. You'll work a case in small groups, design the agreements you'd set, then hear what actually happened, with members of those teams joining live. You'll leave with the questions that surface your own team's silences, and with agreements that do the holding no policy ever could.

Trust in Practice: Building, Breaking, and Repairing It

Trust and psychological safety are often used interchangeably, but they're not the same thing, and knowing the difference changes how you build both. In this session, Charles Feltman, whose definitions of trust and distrust have shaped the work of leaders like Brené Brown, helps participants draw a clear understanding of the two, then breaks trust down into four concrete assessment domains: sincerity, reliability, competence, and care. Bring your own stories — moments when trust was built, broken, or slowly restored — and use Charles's framework to understand what actually happened underneath the surface, and how repair is possible when trust breaks down. You'll leave with precise language for naming what's missing in a relationship and a practical starting point for rebuilding it. In this highly interactive session, facilitator Manal Sayid invites us to look beneath the familiar advice to “speak up” and examine the power, cultural norms, identities, histories and informal rules that shape what speaking can actually cost. Together, participants will explore why the same environment can feel very different depending on where someone sits within a system; reconsider what silence might be communicating; and experience a practical approach for examining how risk is distributed in teams, meetings and organizations. Rather than asking “How do we make people braver?”, we'll experiment with a different question: “What would we need to change so that courage costs people less?” Participants will leave with a practical Risk Audit they can use to examine psychological safety through power and context, and redesign how they invite voice before, during and after difficult conversations.

Who Can Afford to Speak? Psychological Safety, Power and the Unequal Distribution of Risk

Manal Sayid

Psychological safety is often described as creating environments where people feel able to speak up, disagree, admit mistakes and take interpersonal risks, but what happens when those risks don't cost everyone the same thing? In this highly interactive session, facilitator Manal Sayid invites us to look beneath the familiar advice to “speak up” and examine the power, cultural norms, identities, histories and informal rules that shape what speaking can actually cost. Together, participants will explore why the same environment can feel very different depending on where someone sits within a system; reconsider what silence might be communicating; and experience a practical approach for examining how risk is distributed in teams, meetings and organizations. Rather than asking “How do we make people braver?”, we'll experiment with a different question: “What would we need to change so that courage costs people less?” Participants will leave with a practical Risk Audit they can use to examine psychological safety through power and context, and redesign how they invite voice before, during and after difficult conversations.

Safe by Design: The Behavioral Science of Psychological Safety

Matt Furness

You've run the training and said all the right things. And yet, your people still won't say the difficult thing on Monday. So what's actually stopping them? In this session, behavioral scientist Matt Furness reveals why human nature is probably set up to fight you, and how to use it to your advantage. With peculiar stories and smart science, he’ll help you shift behavior so psychological safety finally sticks.

The Wisdom Is in the Room: Peer Consulting Lab

Jace Malz

What psychological safety challenge are you still dealing with? Maybe you keep circling the same conversation. Maybe your team falls into the same patterns, no matter what you try. Maybe your leader says they want honesty, but it never feels safe to share what you think or feel. Bring a challenge that still feels unresolved, something that would benefit from having a few people think it through with you. This session is a chance to sit down with peers and help each other think through what’s actually happening. You’ll get questions, different perspectives, and ideas you may not have considered on your own. You'll probably leave seeing the situation a little differently, with a clearer sense of what matters and what you might try next.