Building a Fearless Organization: A Fieldbook for Creating Psychological Safety at Work - Softcover

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AMY EDMONDSON is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and a leading scholar on psychological safety, teaming, and organizational learning. She is the author of Teaming, The Fearless Organization, and Right Kind of Wrong and works with organizations worldwide to build cultures where people can speak up, learn, and thrive. Motivated by the idea of learning organizations, early in her research she stumbled upon psychological safety as a key to unlocking learning at work.

MICHAELA KERRISSEY is an associate professor of management at the?Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she leads the Teaming Lab. Her award-?winning research focuses on how teams innovate and perform in today’s fast-moving world. She became interested in psychological safety by witnessing its power in teams, and she has sought to advance our understanding of how to foster it ever since. She works with organizations around the world to advance psychological safety and teaming.

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Practical tools for building psychological safety across your organization

Psychological safety drives team learning, creativity, and accountability, yet many organizations struggle to translate the concept into consistent daily practice. Building a Fearless Organization: A Fieldbook for Creating Psychological Safety at Work, by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Harvard Chan School professor Michaela Kerrissey, provides practical tools and actionable steps for creating an interpersonal climate where every team member feels genuinely empowered to express ideas, ask questions, acknowledge mistakes, and raise concerns early and often.

Designed as a hands-on companion to The Fearless Organization, this reliable resource uses ?real-life scenarios and detailed strategies to illustrate how psychological safety can ignite creativity, clarify goals, enhance accountability, and redefine leadership at every level. Drawing on decades of original research at Harvard, Edmondson and Kerrissey equip readers with structured approaches that work whether teams are navigating smooth day-to-day operations or confronting significant challenges in the knowledge economy.

Written for leaders, managers, executives, teams, and organizational development professionals, Building a Fearless Organization delivers the structured guidance needed to move from understanding psychological safety to actively building it. Whether you are leading a small team or transforming an entire enterprise, this guide serves as a practical roadmap for lasting cultural change.