Speak-Up Culture

"A must-read for any leader who wants to cultivate the psychological safety required for people to speak up." — Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School **"**Shedletzky will walk you through exactly how to listen so your team will speak up and step up. Essential!”" — Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor **"**A critical element for any high-performing team." — Rich Diviney, retired Navy SEAL Commander Speak-Up Culture gives leaders a proven, practical framework for building psychological safety at work. Stephen Shedletzky spent more than a decade working alongside Simon Sinek, serving as Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience. In Speak-Up Culture, he shares research-backed leadership principles, case studies and engaging anecdotes for fostering psychological safety, building trust, and creating workplaces where people are willing to speak up. There is a cost to poor leadership: lackluster performance, missed opportunities, and even disaster. When people stay silent, organizations pay the price. Yet leaders have the power to create something different: a speak-up culture where people feel it is both safe and worth it to share ideas, feedback, concerns, disagreements, and mistakes. Researchers call this psychological safety. In Speak-Up Culture, you will learn to: Identify the behaviors that make speaking up feel risky Build psychological safety through everyday leadership actions Encourage constructive dissent and better decision-making Recognize and remove the barriers that keep people silent Create a culture where speaking up becomes the norm This is the practical and engaging guide to building psychological safety, earning trust, and creating workplaces where people contribute their best thinking and efforts. Because the bottom line is that organizations with speak-up cultures are safer, more innovative, more engaged, and better-performing than their peers.