Psychological Safety; What can we learn from people with a different perspective…

Esther Vergeer, former professional wheelchair tennis player who was the world No. 1 in women's wheelchair singles from 1999 to her retirement in February 2013. Currently Esther is Chef de Mission for Team NL and ABN AMRO Tennis Tournament Director and with that, has experienced what it means to thrive in a psychologically safe environment during her career as well as how you can set a psychologically safe environment yourself in a high pressure environment. In this episode, she lets us in on how she developed her career, how that brought her where she is now and what impact psychological safety had in all of it.

Roland Slot, former founder and managing partner of Aberkyn and owner of the company Breathe, has made it his work to support people to use this human connection to create a workplace we can thrive in. Ensuring this is a psychologically safe place is a big part of that. In this episode Roland talks about his experience with the important elements of psychological safety and touches upon his experiences in the corporate world as well as in his role as a coach to teams and leaders.

Angela Maas is a professor in Cardiology at Radboudboudmc, specialized in cardiovascular disease in women, and ambitious about improving the role woman play in medicine and how they are treated at work. In conversation with Anne-Barbara, they discuss the development of these topics during Angela’s career and how it was for her to grow her career in a working environment dominated by men. Listen to this episode to hear how far we have come and how much there is still to win in Healthcare when it comes to psychological safety.

This time we have a special guest, and I think since Covid everyone in the Netherlands knows him; Diederik Gommers, Head of IC at Erasmus. He played a crucial role in the Outbreak Management Team during the pandemic. But he was also still a doctor at the hospital. What did he learn in these unprecedented times and did it change how he looks at and fosters Psychological Safety? This time our conversation will be in Dutch, so for our international listeners I kindly refer you to our other episodes that you can listen in English.

As a professor in Organisational Psychology and owner of a company in evidence based people management, Daan van Knippenberg tells us more about the contribution of Psychological Safety on the results of your organization. In conversation with Anne-Barbara Lemmens they discover the relation with Diversity & Inclusion. Listen to this episode to find out if you agree that we can look at it from the ‘glass half full’ perspective and what we can still do to become better at embedding Psychological Safety in our everyday lives.

The Royal Airforce can be labeled as the first organization where psychological safety was truly implemented under the name 'crew resource management'. The key ingredient is trust. Dennis elaborates about how trust can be built within a team and organization.

During this conversation we talk about how psychological safety is experienced within Deloitte based on the view of former CHRO and now Consulting lead Petra Tito. Petra also shares practical tips to open up the dialogue about this sensitive topic.