This week on Conflict Managed we are joined by Jessica Bensch, a passionate advocate for psychological safety at work and founder of Vanguard Voices.

Jessica Bench is a Canadian-Indian, living in Switzerland and working as an Agile Coach in a pharmaceutical company. She has managed many high profile organizational change projects and led employee engagement initiatives over the course of 20+years.

In 2019, she championed a grassroots movement with the company she worked. The focus was on upholding the company values and psychological safety at work. Within two years, the efforts gained over 25,000 engagements. Jessica has been recognized with more than 20 global awards for this initiative.

Jessica is now building a worldwide not-for-profit movement, Vanguard Voices, on the topic of psychological safety. She deeply believes that we do not change the world simply by keeping quiet and perpetuating the status quo. We make positive change by confronting our fears and speaking out our truth, individually and collectively.

A global cosmopolitan and humanitarian, Jessica has lived, traveled or worked in close to 40 countries. She is married to a German-South African and together they have three young children.

www.vanguardvoices.com

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Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services. Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services (3pconflictrestoration.com)