What if your team’s biggest performance blocker wasn’t capability—but silence?

In this episode, I’m joined by psychological safety expert Gary Keogh to unpack why so many people still don’t feel safe to speak up at work—and how most leaders are blind to it. We explore what psychological safety really is (and isn’t), why two in five people still hold back, and why 70% of leaders think their teams feel safer than they actually do.

Gary shares practical insights into the four domains of psychological safety, the impact of accurately measuring it, and the powerful shifts he sees during the breakthrough sessions he runs with teams. We also flip the usual doom-and-gloom narrative, highlighting positive examples like Netflix’s “farming for dissent” approach.

If you want to build a high-trust, high-performance culture—this is where it starts.

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The key moments in this episode are:

0:00:10 – Why silence still rules too many workplaces

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Get the full transcript of the episode here