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In today's teams and organizations, a troubling culture of silence often prevails. The fear of speaking out, driven by concerns about potential negative consequences, is a genuine and widespread issue. This culture of silence can stifle creativity, hinder innovation, and prevent valuable insights from emerging.

At our event, we delve into the urgent need for psychological safety—a concept that is the antidote to this stifling silence. You'll gain a deep understanding of what psychological safety is and why it's crucial in today's workplace. But we go beyond awareness. We empower you with actionable insights and strategies. We will provide agile techniques and practices to break the silence within your teams and organizations. You'll learn how to create spaces where people feel safe to express their thoughts, ideas, and concerns without fear of backlash or reprisal.

By attending this event, you'll not only transform your own coachees’ and workplace experience but also become an active advocate for the global movement for psychological safety. Together, we can create workplaces where psychological safety thrives, innovation flourishes, and individuals and organizations achieve collective brilliance.

Join us in taking a stand against the culture of silence. Don't miss this opportunity to make a lasting impact in your business and organization and in the world.

• You will understand the concept of psychological safety and its importance in coaching, teams and organizational relationships.
• You will learn to identify signs of a culture of silence and its impact on personal and organizational development.
• You will develop agile and facilitation strategies and techniques for addressing and resolving conflicts - within the coaching relationship and teams while maintaining psychological safety. 
• You will be inspired and learn more about how you can contribute to the global movement for psychological safety.

CAREER
Jessica is 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.

A CHAMPION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
In 2019, she championed a grassroots movement within the company she worked. The focus was on upholding the company values and psychological safety at work. Within 2 years, the efforts gained over 25,000 engagements. Jessica has been recognized with more than 20
global awards for this initiative.

VANGUARD VOICES: BUILDING A GLOBAL MOVEMENT
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. 

FAMILY
A global cosmopolitan and humanitarian, Jessica has lived, travelled or worked in close to 40 countries. She is married to a German-South African and together they have 3 young children.