Psychological Safety: Patterns from Child Psychology to Build Safety in Teams

In this presentation, ZXM’s Partner for Agile Enterprise Transformation, Matthew Hodgson, looks at psychological safety through the lens of a psychological, research-based approach to creating psychological safety – and an example of its use to deal with Agile team dysfunction, strengthen trust and help build a learning culture in teams.

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Matthew Hodgson

Matt is the CEO of Zen Ex Machina, Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and SAFe SPC5. He's an author, keynote speaker, and a regular presenter at international conferences across Australia, USA, Asia, and Europe. He's an executive advisor on large scale agile transformations and highly successful with his focus on organisational psychology and culture.

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