Psych Safety Day 2026
Know it. Feel it. Do it.
“Second time attending and again one of the most meaningful events I've attended. Real stories, real impact. The content was thoughtful, the facilitation exceptional, and the impact lasting.”
Ula Szarek · Cross-cultural psychologist and psych safety practitioner
Every part of the event does what it teaches.
You’ll learn psychological safety by experiencing it. We show, not tell, how a Zoom room of strangers becomes a connected community.
The people you’ll be working with.
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Past attendees, rounded.
Led by people who do the work,not just talk about it.
Behavioral scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, researchers, executive coaches, consultants and team leaders.
Amy Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.
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Carl Miller
Carl Miller is co-founder of The GRIN Labs, a leadership advisory built on a simple idea: AI works best when humans see each other first. His background spans fintech, sales leadership, and enterprise AI consulting, and he has spoken and facilitated in more than 20 countries, guided by the belief that the wisdom is in the room. Through The GRIN Labs he works with leadership teams at global technology companies, consumer brands, and professional sports organizations on Intentional AI: tools and practices that make how a team works visible, discussable, and safe to change. He is also the founder of The Purpose Project, a community and set of reflective programs helping leaders align their work with what actually matters to them.
LinkedInCharles Feltman
Charles Feltman is an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator, and the author of The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work, now in its third edition with nearly 100,000 copies sold. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience coaching leaders and teams — including work with Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley — Charles breaks trust down into distinct, learnable competencies: sincerity, reliability, competence, and care. He holds a Master's degree in Organizational Development from USC and a BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz. His definitions of trust and distrust are the same ones bestselling author Brené Brown says she has used in every book she's written, calling them practical, actionable, and meaningful. He has a number of impressive sounding certifications related to his work, but what is most important to him is that he is a certified husband, father and grandfather.
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Claire Gray
Claire Gray is an executive coach, leadership and team facilitator, and author of Thriving Teams: When Teams Unite, Align & Achieve and Thriving Leaders: Learn the Skills to Lead Confidently. She is the host of the Thriving Leaders Podcast and founder of Thriving Culture, working with organizations across sectors — from financial services and technology to government and not-for-profit — to build accountability, psychological safety, and high-performing cultures. With over two decades of experience across Australia, Asia, North America and the UK. Claire is known for simplifying complexity and equipping leaders with practical tools they can apply immediately.
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Dima Boulad
Dima Boulad is Head of Design Research at the Dubai Design Lab, an action lab under the Dubai Future Foundation focused on using design and creativity to make Dubai one of the world’s most liveable cities. With more than 14 years of experience across the public and private sectors, she leads a team that applies human-centered design to craft policies, systems and strategies that improve quality of life for Dubai’s residents. Before this she was an Innovation Design Manager at EY and an independent design consultant, including as a Community Fellow with OpenIDEO and in design research for the International Rescue Committee and Doctors Without Borders in Beirut. She specializes in qualitative research, service and experience design, and systems and futures thinking, and speaks and mentors on human-centered design, including for TEDx Beirut, the Salzburg Global Seminar and the Jameel Arts Center.
LinkedInElaine Lin Hering
Elaine Lin Hering is a speaker, facilitator, and former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on six continents and facilitated executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She has served as the Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and a Managing Partner for a global leadership development firm. She has worked with coal miners at BHP Billiton, micro-finance organizers in East Africa, mental health professionals in China, and senior leadership at the US Department of Commerce. Her clients include American Express, Chevron, Google, Nike, Novartis, PayPal, Pixar, and the Red Cross. She was named a Thinkers50 global management thinker to watch and is the author of the USA Today Bestselling book Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully (Penguin).
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Helen Sanderson Ph.D.
Helen Sanderson is the author of Psychological Safety in Practice, published by Kogan Page in October 2026, which sets out the Five Foundations for psychological safety and the fifteen practices that build them. The practices were used in Wellbeing Teams, the care organization she founded and ran. Her TED talk shows Team Agreements and one-page profiles in a team meeting there. She is currently learning with 200 leaders how teams can put Team Agreements into everyday practice in the NHS.
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Jace Malz
Jace Malz is a leadership development consultant and executive coach. Through his practice, Inbo, he works with senior leaders and leadership teams in the moments when the old way of working stops working. His work spans one-on-one coaching, team coaching, and facilitation with clients including Mila, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Privy Council Office, McGill, and Cirque du Soleil. He holds a Master's degree in Human Systems Intervention, is a PCC Certified Coach and is ORSC-trained in team coaching.
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Jason Eisner
After years of working with colleagues and clients around the globe on psychological safety, Jason started Psych Safety Day as an annual meet up that brings everyone together to actually practice the skills (not just talk about them), learn new perspectives, and connect with really good people. In year 3, it continues to grow, with attendees from almost 40 countries and expert facilitators that provide diverse perspectives.
LinkedInJeff Wetzler
Dr. Jeff Wetzler is an expert on adult learning and leadership development. He brings over 25 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur, operating executive, and advisor to top corporate and NGO leaders around the world. He is the author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life, and co-founder of Transcend.
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John Engel
John Engel is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Institute at Klingberg Family Centers, where a dedicated team of professionals is healing relationships for a better world by advancing trauma-informed systems through training, consultation, coaching, and research. John collaborates with leaders to foster equitable, psychologically safe, and trauma-informed work environments through organizational development, team learning, and leadership best practices. John is a doctoral candidate concentrating in change leadership, with a dissertation focused on psychological safety in racially diverse work teams in the human service sector.
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Julio Muhorro
Julio Muhorro is a power coach, facilitator and speaker from Mozambique. He draws on 10 years of experience in management, training and research to help entrepreneurs, leaders and organizations tap into their power, engage their stakeholders from a place of deep purpose, and drive long-lasting social and economic impact.
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Karlyn Percil-Mercieca
Karlyn Percil-Mercieca is a cultural architect, speaker and consultant with KDPM Consulting Group. She speaks on gender and racial equity, intersectional leadership, and how to create culturally safe workplace culture. From Oprah’s Lifeclass to Cityline and stages around the world, she inspires women to discover their inner warriors and reclaim their power.
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Karolin Helbig
Karolin Helbig is a leadership consultant focused on mindset and emotional intelligence and holds a PhD in human genetics. She believes in the transformative power of bringing one’s best self to work and making the workplace psychologically safe for everyone. She integrates neuroscience findings that revolutionize our understanding of the human brain and translates these findings into powerful leadership practices. Karolin spent many years as a top management consultant with McKinsey & Company, working as part of teams at all levels of psychological safety. She is the co-author of The Psychological Safety Playbook and The Psychological Safety Playbook for Changemakers.
LinkedInDr. Kim McLear
Kim McLear, PhD, is a civic designer, movement strategist, and artist working at the intersection of systems change, democracy, and social connection. Her work has been featured in CNN, Forbes, and Glamour. She designs liberation-focused innovation ecosystems for civic builders, using systems thinking, tech, and cultural strategy to strengthen collective action under conditions of uncertainty. Drawing on music and rhythm, her work helps communities move from fragmentation toward coherence, creativity, and sustained change.
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LaTasha Reece
LaTasha (Tasha) Reece is the Research Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Institute, where she supports research, evaluation, and the implementation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale. Her work focuses on advancing trauma-informed systems through meaningful data, research translation, and organizational learning. LaTasha brings an interdisciplinary background in public health, physiology, and molecular biology and is currently completing her doctorate in Community Care and Counseling with a specialization in Traumatology. Her research interests include traumatic stress, health equity, and compassionate, trauma-informed approaches that can strengthen individuals, organizations, and communities.
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Manal Sayid
Manal Sayid is a facilitator, consultant and trainer who helps leaders, teams and organizations navigate complexity, build alignment and move difficult conversations toward clear decisions and action. As President of Sayid Consulting, she brings a highly participatory approach to strategic planning, organizational development and collaboration, creating the conditions for people to surface what matters, work through competing perspectives and move forward with greater clarity and shared ownership.
LinkedInDr. Marcia Goddard
Dr. Marcia Goddard is a neuroscientist and psychologist who specializes in translating brain-behavior science into practical strategies that boost performance and team dynamics in high-stakes environments. As founder of Brain Matters, she works with organizations to diagnose cultural barriers and design evidence-based interventions that drive high performance.
LinkedInMatt Furness
Matt Furness is an expert in learning and behavioral science. He has an award-winning First-class BSc degree in Psychology from University of Bath and an Occupational Psychology MSc with Distinction from Birkbeck. Matt has spent over a decade developing leaders, people, and culture in 100+ organizations. He's advised and delivered sessions for organizations like Primark, Google, Accenture, BDO, Smith+Nephew, Hollywood Bowl, Société Générale, and the UK Civil Service. After leaving EY in 2023, Matt founded Click, a behavioral science consultancy specializing in the expert-to-leader transition. Matt shares 60-second nuggets of wisdom on behavioral science to 30,000+ people on LinkedIn. He lives near London.
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Michaela Zuckova
Michaela Zuckova is a co-founder of The GRIN Labs and The Purpose Project. She spent fifteen years building startups and leading large-scale digital transformation, and knows how easy it is to perform your way out of touch with yourself. Through The Purpose Project she guides Inner Compass cohorts across the US and Australia, small groups using AI as a thought partner to explore values and identity; travelers have included CEOs, chiefs of staff, coaches, teachers, and two Catholic nuns. Through The GRIN Labs she brings the same care into organizations with Intentional AI: slowing down before optimizing, and building small AI habits that grow trust and judgment.
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Minette Norman
Minette Norman is an award-winning author, speaker, leadership consultant, and former Silicon Valley software executive who spent decades leading global teams. As the author of The Boldly Inclusive Leader and the co-author of The Psychological Safety Playbook and The Psychological Safety Playbook for Changemakers, Minette is committed to helping leaders unlock the full potential of the people in their organizations. She translates research and real-world experience. into simple, practical actions that transform how people work together. Minette’s approach is grounded in empathy, curiosity, and courage, the essential skills for modern leadership.
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Penny Locaso
Penny Locaso is a behavioral scientist, provisional psychologist and international keynote speaker, and a partner at The GRIN Labs. She works in the Psychology of AI: the study of how everyday interactions with AI reshape how people think, feel, behave and relate, at work. Her premise is simple. What looks like an AI problem is usually a human one first. For organizations, this is the missing link in AI implementation. Most rollouts are built around the technology, not the people using it. Penny calls the alternative Intentional AI: consciously directing how, when and why you engage with AI, so you remain the author of your own thinking and protect the habits of mind that let you lead, connect and perform at your best. The same tool, used two ways, either sharpens judgment or erodes it. The difference is intention. A published, peer-reviewed researcher in intentional adaptability, she has worked with Deloitte, Microsoft, Google, NAB and Booking.com. Her work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, TEDx and the Australian Financial Review.
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Romy Alexandra
Romy Alexandra is a Chief Learning Officer, Learning Experience Designer, and Facilitator on a mission to humanize workplaces and learning spaces to accelerate high performance culture. A former Peace Corps Volunteer and Fulbright Scholar, Romy brings a global perspective and over 15 years of international expertise spanning 90 countries across 5 continents. She has worked with organizations across every sector - from governments to universities to Fortune100 to Formula 1 teams - helping individuals and teams unlock their potential and accelerate learning velocity and psychological safety. Romy is the learning experience designer behind Psych Safety Day 2026.
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Shaheen Hajira
Shaheen is an inclusive learning designer and facilitator, and founder of Ta’leem Consulting, a social enterprise dedicated to designing accessible, equitable, and impactful learning experiences. With over 13 years’ experience in learning and development across industry and higher education, she does this through co-creating programs that elevate marginalised voices and drive systemic change. Shaheen’s work focuses on reshaping traditional learning and development into spaces where everyone, especially those often unheard, can thrive. Grounded in human-centered design and a passion for social equity, her work empowers learners and leaders to build more inclusive programs, platforms and services.
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Vishal Jain
Vishal Jain is a consultant, facilitator, and researcher that thrives on building connection and community. His experiences in the corporate, education, and non-profit sectors have all brought him to the same conclusion: we have a responsibility to build a more equitable world in which everyone can thrive. With expertise in gender and masculinity, Vishal works to empower individuals, communities, and organizations to leverage their experiences and take responsibility for their role in a better world. Vishal has served as an Equity and Inclusion Fellow and a Community Engagement Coordinator at Harvard University, and was the inaugural Director of DEI for the office of Career Advancement at the University of Chicago. He spent time as a management consultant with Kurt Salmon, part of Accenture Strategy, and as the first Director of Business and Program Development for The Ever Forward Club, a youth socio-emotional learning non-profit. Vishal is currently pursuing his PhD in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He holds a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Business from Emory University.
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Wilder Akasha Grace
Wilder Akasha Grace is a transformational experience designer, facilitator, and founder of The Business of Being Human™ and The Human Capacity Lab™. Her work explores the distinctly human capacities that become more consequential as technology accelerates—attention, curiosity, discernment, self-trust, relationship, and the ability to stay present when the answer isn’t obvious. Drawing on decades of experience across education, leadership, systems thinking, embodiment, and human development, Wilder designs experiential environments where leaders and teams can observe how they listen, respond to pressure, navigate difference, and make decisions. At the heart of her work is a simple question: What conditions allow human beings to become more capable, more connected, and more fully alive?
LinkedInWhat past attendees said.
Two days, your way.
Designed around Head, Heart and Hands: know it, feel it, do it. You choose how you take part in every session: speak, write, work with others, or observe.
Connection Before Content: Setting the Stage for Psych Safety Day
Beyond the Buzzword: The Future of Psychological Safety
Proactive & Responsive: A Psych Safety Tool Exchange
Day 1 Closing Circle
Day 2 Opening
Who Can Afford to Speak? Psychological Safety, Power and the Unequal Distribution of Risk
Frameworks in Focus: A Living Library of Psych Safety
Day 2 Closing Circle
“I protected the time to attend this event with all my might. The day was enlightening, practical and had me feeling both inspired and creative.”
Here’s how the two days work.
Make it stick after November 19.
Up to 85%
of what people learn at training and conferences never makes it back to the job.
Insight without follow-through fades fast. This year we’ve partnered with the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, whose work is closing the gap between learning and doing, so what you learn here changes what happens on Monday morning and in the months after.
In partnership with
The Accountability Appointment
Wednesday, February 17, 2027 · 9:00–10:30 AM PT · Online
You’re far more likely to follow through on what you’ve said out loud to people who will ask you about it later. Come back together with fellow attendees to review your action plan, get support where you’re stuck, and recommit.
Included with every ticket.
Your calendar invitation follows registration.
Two days in 2026, up from a single day in 2025.
Choose the experience that fits.
Two days of practice, not a one-off talk. From $349.
Organizations pay $10K to $50K for one talk on psychological safety. Psych Safety Day gives you two days of practice for a fraction of that.
The virtual venue
Join the global community doing this work.
Join hundreds of practitioners building psychologically safe workplaces. Facilitator and session announcements land here first.
Common questions.
People who believe how a team feels is a performance question. You’ve seen what happens when someone stays quiet, and you want to be the one who changes that.
In practice: L&D leaders, HR professionals, coaches, consultants, executives and team leads. Solo or with your whole team. New to psychological safety or years in, there is something here for you.
Yes — fully virtual on November 18–19, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific each day. Attend from anywhere with a computer and internet.
Yes. 90-day access to all session recordings is included with every ticket. Can’t attend live? We offer a recordings-only ticket.
Experiential workshops in small groups, plus one panel. You choose how you take part: speak, write, work with others, or observe.
5+: 15% off. 10+: 25% off. 25+: contact us for custom enterprise pricing.
We’ve got you covered. Use our Convince Your Manager kit — a ready-to-send email with ROI data, pricing, and a one-paragraph justification.
We’ll be hosted on a platform designed for interactivity, with breakout rooms for small-group exercises, live chat and polling. Live sessions run on Zoom to keep the tech easy, but get ready for a new kind of Zoom experience. Breakout rooms are encouraged, and no one is ever moved into one against their will. Engage as your energy allows.
Yes. We offer reduced pricing for attendees from lower-income countries, non-profits, NGOs, educators, and students. Reach out via our contact form or the financial aid section at checkout.
Email us any time before the event and we refund your ticket in full.
Questions? We’re here.
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