Workshop #2 (Registration Closed)
The DEI Factor in Psychological Safety:
The Key to Everyone Thriving
March 20, 2024
9:00-11:30 a.m. Pacific / 12:00-2:30 p.m. Eastern
Presenter: Damon Stoddard
What would you say are the primary drivers of team and organizational success and overall wellbeing?
Research tells us the answer is psychological safety. And it is impossible to unlock the benefits of DEI without psychological safety. Unfortunately, efforts to improve psychological safety in the workplace rarely succeed—fewer than 10% of teams have every member feeling psychologically safe.
What can you and your team do to change that?
Presenter, Damon Stoddard, with his team at Microsoft, created a process and software that is helping more than 70,000 organizations worldwide improve psychological safety opening the door for everyone to thrive.
In this workshop, we’ll dive into the research and quantify the business impact of psychological safety. Furthermore, we’ll share the single biggest factor contributing to employees thriving. You’ll experience an interactive demonstration of the simple process Damon created that takes less than an hour per month, improves psychological safety, and increases team effectiveness by 25%. You’ll be introduced to software that enables this process. Finally, you will discover a method that you can start using immediately—it only takes 15 minutes a week for you and your manager. This technique increases psychological safety, improves employee engagement by 77%, and reduces employee turnover by 67%.
Psychological safety is a cornerstone of optimum organizational performance—a workplace where everyone feels valued and can express their ideas authentically.
It is impossible to unlock the benefits of DEI without psychological safety.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Succinctly define psychological safety.
- Quantify the business and personal impact of psychological safety.
- Implement a 50-minute process for your team to improve psychological safety and employee thriving.
- Implement a 15-minute weekly process for employee/manager check-ins to improve psychological safety, engagement, and turnover.
- Utilize a proven roadmap for unlocking the benefits of DEI by ensuring psychological safety is created for every team and individual in your organization.
About the Presenter
Damon Stoddard
With over 25 years of professional experience as a change leader at Microsoft and Honeywell, Damon Stoddard has a proven history of driving systematic, transformational change in organizations and has won numerous awards for his work.
Most recently, Damon earned the reputation as “The Psychological Safety Guru at Microsoft” because of his thought leadership in conjunction with workshops, executive coaching, and keynote speeches to thousands of Microsoft employees.
Furthermore, Damon co-created software that is used by more than 2,000 teams across Microsoft and 65,000 organizations worldwide to measure and systematically improve by creating thriving team cultures.
In his personal life, Damon is an author and also coaches authors to write and publish their own books. He wrote his first book, Pain Drives Change, in 45 days. In this highly acclaimed book, Damon shares his personal transformation of overcoming divorce and building the family of his dreams. This book became the foundation for Change YOUniversity where he and his coaches have coached thousands of men to build the families of their dreams and break the generational curses in their families forever.
In Damon’s second book, Apathy or Action, he shares his personal journey of fighting cancer that has inspired countless people to take action when facing fear in their own lives. Damon has successfully applied the principles he’s learned to numerous volunteer organizations, including a thriving men’s ministry and small groups ministry in his church. In Damon’s previous role as Vice President of Discipleship and Culture, he helped create one of the premier Christian junior football programs in the nation.
Together, he and his wife, Debbie, live near Seattle and enjoy the family of their dreams together.
If you’d like to learn more about how Damon can help your organization, feel free to message him on LinkedIn.
