ICF Québec - English Coaches Breakfast

Lieu	Virtual Platform

Titre de l’activité/Title of the activity : 

Psychological Safety: How It Develops & What It Means for Our Work -
A two-part conversation – Part 2

Animateur/Speaker:

Dr. Laurie J. Leo

Laurie Leo, MBA and BS - Accounting and Computer Science, is the founder of Laurie Leo Advisory, where she works with senior leaders, their teams, and boards. Her practice spans both the generative work of strengthening culture, shaping strategy and navigating challenging situations, such as change, disruption, critical decisions, leadership transitions, and the hard conversations. Laurie is committed to fostering psychological safety with her clients and to helping them do the same in their organizations. 

She is certified in Gallup CliftonStrengths, Everything DiSC, Wiley’s Five Behaviors, the Fearless Organization Scan, and has completed training in Structural Dynamics (a framework for the dynamics of face-to-face communication). She also holds a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Leadership Learning Collaborative, and a Certificate in Strategic Leadership from Washington University in St. Louis.

DESCRIPTION: 

Psychological safety — a construct long-explored in empirical research — has entered the leadership landscape, as a term often described and understood inconsistently. Moreover, despite vast research about factors that typically foster psychological safety, significant research gaps exist related to the psychological safety needs of leaders and how psychological safety actually develops.

Laurie’s dissertation research addressed those two gaps to create a theory of how safety is constructed for senior leaders. Session 1 highlighted her research and findings. Session 2 offers a guided conversation about how to create value for your coaching/consulting clients based on this research.

Session 2 — What the research means for our work as coaches

We will discuss implications of this research for the leaders we work with, for their teams, and for the wider organization. I will frame each topic briefly and then facilitate a group conversation to explore these topics with respect to our practices.

There are more possibilities than an hour allows, so we will focus on three or four. Possible topics for Session 2 include:

• Psychological safety as a dynamically changing perception, versus a condition achieved and maintained
• How a leader’s identity influences their perceptions of psychological safety or unsafety
• The influence of work relationships and trust on psychological safety
• Feel the fear and do it anyway: the costs and benefits of leaders using personal agency to foster their own safety
• The influence of communication on perceptions of psychological safety or unsafety
• Organizational impacts of leaders’ perceptions of either psychological safety or unsafety

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