Karen Kemerling, PhD: Psychological Safety: Foundation of High Performing Teams

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Agenda:
The Psychological Safety Webinar would cover the following:
• What is psychological safety?
• Why does it matter to companies?
• What are the stages a team, group, company must go thru to build psychological safety ?

• This includes building psychological safety thru four stages: Inclusion, Learning, Contributing, and Challenging the status quo.
• These are the stages to build a culture that encourages employees to bring their best self to work and the building blocks that empower innovative and thriving companies.

Bio:
Karen Kemerling is an energetic and inspirational executive leader and
coach. She applies a variety of leadership principles to build confidence
in individuals, empower teams, and generate a competitive advantage.
She is the founder of K2 | Leadership Development – a leadership coaching
and organizational development company.
She brings 30+ years of leadership experience as a past President, COO, and
CIO, leading all aspects of business in large global companies, smaller
businesses, and non-profits. Her superior strategic management,
implementation, negotiation, and team collaboration skills focus on delivering
services that empower the business and promote productivity in the
workforce.
Karen is a Vistage CEO Chair, where she coaches CEOs, business owners, and key executives to address
and solve their toughest challenges. She coaches each leader through one-to-one coaching sessions and
through the power of the monthly CEO peer group collaborative sessions.
Karen is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), a Certified Agile Leader (CAL), a Neuroscience Certified
Brain Based Coach, and she is a Psychological Safety Certified Trainer and Coach. She uses these
approaches in workshops and to actively coach leaders to develop a growth-mindset and foster
psychologically safe teams and organizations.
Karen developed the online Psychological Safety – Building High Performing Teams 6-week intensive
workshop that gives leaders actionable and tangible steps leaders can take to incorporate Psychological
Safety in the work environment.
Karen co-developed the Women in Agile Leadership (WiAL) program, supporting and encouraging
women executives & leaders to find their voice and lead authentically in a complex multi-cultural setting.
In 2011, Karen was nominated by the Denver Business Journal as the CIO of the year in the Non-Profit
Sector. In 2015, she was also voted one of the top 3 Businesswomen of the Year in Denver.
In 2002, Karen successfully completed her doctoral dissertation on the Productivity of Remote Teams
and achieved her Doctorate degree in Management and Organizational Development.
In addition, Karen holds a Master of Science degree in Management of Information Systems (MIS) and a
Bachelor of Science in computer science and a minor in electrical engineering.
Karen loves Colorado, the outdoors, all sports, guitars, rescue dogs, and family.