Maiysha Clairborne

Research shows that psychological safety in the workplace has a positive effect on employee and leadership engagement and retention. Conversely, low levels of psychological safety lead to high stress, isolation, and over time are associated with burnout. When leaders and employees feel safe to be and express themselves, learn, make mistakes, contribute, and challenge the status quo, they are more likely to bring their best self to work, and more likely to stay with their organization. But what constitutes psychological safety and what are the factors that threaten and cultivate it. In this talk, Dr. Clairborne defines psychological safety, its components, what threatens and destroys it, and lay out the path for how leaders can begin to create psychologically safe cultures to help their workforce thrive.

Most people thing they are good listeners, however, there is one thing that most people do not account for that impacts their ability to listen fully. In this talk, Dr. Clairborne explains how we mostly listen, the science behind why and the one thing that if we shifted would improve listening, communication, and leadership in all areas of our life.