How To Create Psychological Safety and Mitigate Bias as a Speaker with Robert L. Wilson

February 2025 Chapter Meeting | No cost to members | First time guests can attend at no cost by using code: FEBMEETING2025

Gain a deep understanding of psychological safety and its profound impact on group dynamics. Explore its intersections with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and learn actionable strategies to cultivate and sustain a culture of psychological safety with your audience.

Takeaways include:

• Foundations of Psychological Safety: Discover the definition of psychological safety, a climate of interpersonal trust and mutual respect.

• Calculated Risk-Taking and Productive Conflict: Learn the value of embracing risks and engaging in productive conflicts to foster innovation and problem-solving.

• Developing Team Norms and Agreements: Understand how to collaboratively create and adapt team norms that promote open communication and mutual respect.

• Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Psychological Safety: Delve into how psychological safety can enhance the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion efforts, leading to better outcomes and a true sense of belonging.

• Practical Strategies for Building Psychological Safety: Implement practical steps such as affirming meeting practices, transparent communication about business developments, and collaborative setting of behavioral expectations.

About Robert L. Wilson:

Robert Lawrence Wilson, is founding partner of Culture Shift Team, where he leads CST’s Diversity, Inclusion and Equity division. With more than 15 years of experience in diversity management, multicultural marketing, customer experience strategy, and leadership development, Robert develops comprehensive strategy and training for corporations, non-profit organizations, higher education, and government agencies. In addition to overall inclusion strategy, Robert also provides racial equity strategy and deployment expertise. 

Robert served in executive roles at Nissan North America, including Nissan’s director of Customer Experience and Nissan’s first director of Diversity and Inclusion where he developed and led Nissan’s diversity practice, spanning Nissan’s operations in North and South America, as well as a multicultural marketing strategy.

​Has served on the leadership boards of non-profit organizations promoting greater access to quality education for our nation’s most at-risk student populations. Robert is the co-founder and executive director of the Tennessee Diversity Consortium and serves as an adjunct professor in Vanderbilt University’s Leadership and Organizational Performance program. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University.

Robert’s Speaking Topics Include:

• Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Breakthrough
• From Ally to Ambassador:
• What it Takes to Become An Ambassador For Inclusion
• The Implicit Bias Algorithm 
• Equity in Action:
• A Roadmap to Identifying and Addressing Disparities 
• Mastering Inclusion in 20 Words or Less 
• Supercharging Your Business Resource Groups 
• Courageous Conversations in the Workplace