Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety

This training is designed to equip diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) advocates and professionals with the tools and knowledge to create and sustain psychological safety within their teams and organizations. Psychological safety is a crucial element for fostering DEI, as it enables team members to speak up, take risks, and bring their authentic selves to work without fear of retribution. Through this session, participants will explore the connection between psychological safety and healthy work cultures, understand its importance for driving innovation and inclusion, and learn strategies to cultivate it within their organizations.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Define psychological safety and explain its significance in promoting inclusion within teams and organizations.
2. Understand the impact of psychological safety on team dynamics, innovation, and employee well-being, particularly for underrepresented and historically marginalized groups.
3. Identify barriers to psychological safety and how they can hinder inclusion efforts in the workplace.
4. Analyze the nuanced relationship between psychological safety and organizational culture—exploring how cultural norms, leadership styles, and systemic structures either enable or inhibit psychological safety.
5. Develop actionable strategies to foster psychological safety in their own teams, ensuring all voices are heard and valued including techniques for empowering leaders to model habits and techniques that develop psychological safety through everyday practices.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Tenisha “Ava” Williams is an experienced diversity, equity, and Inclusion consultant, speaker, and facilitator with over a decade of experience with organizational assessment, strategic planning, and equity-centered change management. Ava has led project teams focusing on identifying and addressing inequities for various leaders and executives at over 100 organizations. She is known for introducing frameworks and tools beyond conventional DEIA discussions - urging audiences to imagine how their work can build an organizational culture that strives for belonging for all and deliver tangible and measurable outcomes for communities affected by structural inequities.

Gabrielle Roffe works to understand the unique ways people connect to and protect their environments and, through transformative community practices, redefine environmental stewardship. She has spent the past 13 years leading in DEI work to amplify voices of underrepresented communities to advance equity, inclusion, and belonging in the access and design of cities, neighborhoods, and other public spaces and services. Gabrielle has partnership and DEI capacity-building, community engagement, and creative placemaking expertise. She enjoys leading equity committees to develop innovative strategies and tactics to address internal and external organizational DEI needs.

Yinka Ajirotutu is an award-winning innovative thought leader, social justice advocate, and senior consultant who is known for developing, motivating and leading diverse teams to achieve unprecedented goals in the areas of change management, JEDI, and creating cultures of inclusion and belonging. She has extensive experience working with executive leadership and supporting the development and implementation of their strategic vision for their organizations for nonprofits and other public sector organizations.

Event Venue

Online