We're a collective of people from all over the world, with a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences.
We believe in helping to make the world of work a safer, higher performing, more inclusive and equitable place.
When teams feel safe to speak up, they thrive, and the organisation thrives.
We believe that an organisation is made of connections. And when psychological safety is overlooked, those connections suffer, and your organisation suffers. Let’s stop that from happening.
Tom Geraghty
Co-Founder and Delivery Lead
After completing a degree in ecology, Tom’s first job title was “Experimentalist”. From there, he moved into technology to become a CIO, CTO, and to being an organisational change consultant.
Tom once worked in an environment that cultivated fear. Where people were afraid to speak up, suggest new ideas and admit mistakes. The business suffered and was going backwards. And people weren’t happy. Needless to say, he didn’t stay there very long.
But from experiencing how not to do things, it made him driven to learn and teach others how to do things. To help organisations create an environment that promotes change, experimentation and support.
Tom founded Iterum Ltd as a vehicle to deliver a new approach to training and consultancy around the world of work. Iterum has clients globally, including in healthcare, aviation, manufacturing and technology, and is the organisation behind psychsafety.com Today, Psych Safety is the primary source of psychological safety content around the world. A continuously evolving platform that pulls together resources for everyone to benefit from.
Tom is also a father, an avid mountain biker, and holds an MBA and a post-graduate diploma in Global Health & Humanitarianism. Tom’s full bio is here.
Jade Garratt
Co-Founder and Director of Education
Jade’s first degree in Physics from Oxford University may have taught her a lot about Science, but she found the learning environment elitist, competitive and unsupportive. However, she credits this experience with giving her a clarity about her values. In her career since, which has spanned teaching, teacher education, leadership and curriculum development, she strives to create healthy, inclusive and psychologically safe learning spaces. The opposite, in fact, of the environment she experienced.
Undeterred from pursuing a career in education, Jade has 18 years of experience across education, the charity/ non-profit sector and the private sector. She’s always been drawn to the complex, messy, beautiful reality of working with people and teams. Alongside this work she has gained a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and is working towards a PhD in Education with the University of Nottingham.
Jade ensures all our courses, workshops and tool kits deliver the outcomes that you want, making sure you have the knowledge, skills and resources to enable you, your teams and organisations to thrive.
Diana Stepner
Community Moderator
Bea Poyton
Content creation, marketing and research
Bea is a Classical Civilisation student studying at the University of Nottingham. She has experience in PR and is interested in management consultancy and culture in the business world, hence finding her way to our team. Bea is also super-creative – during lockdown, she completed a Diploma in Cryptozoology (the study of mythical animals!) followed by another in cake baking and decorating. She loves to write, spending time on her own novels as well as academic research and articles.
Nick Hayward
Web Developer
Deisa Tremarias Grimau
Resident Illustrator
Communicating is Deisa’s lifetime passion: in this process, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Literature with a mention in creative writing and a publishing diploma from Venezuela’s Central University. After that, she continued developing verbal and writing studies to match with graphic design and how to explore the visual appeal and the function of comprehensive management in illustration.
The next moves are taken through 10 years of working with books, magazines and printed materials and also with digital formats in various publishing houses, advertising companies and related freelance projects. Deisa’s workshops, courses and presentations are focused on creativity as the foundation for connecting people and ideas with interesting and attractive results: she believes in play and experimentation as part of the dynamic in the creative process.
When Deisa isn’t drawing something or tattooing someone, she enjoys street art, spending time with her daughter and friends, chatting about life, time and memes, as well as exploring new spots at natural spaces to observe and restore energy.
Balázs Szakmáry
DevOps Specialist
Navya Adhikarla
Expert Contributor
Navya Adhikarla has written articles for psychsafety.com, including “(Don’t) Look me in the Eye: The Challenge of Eye Contact”.
Navya is a hopeful, courageous, and caring leader who is sometimes (mediocrely) witty. She’s an Engineering Management graduate from Duke University, with experience in consulting, project & program management and public speaking. Navya has engaged in coaching professional students and teams in Leadership & Management during her time as a professional student, and strongly believes it to be both my inherent gift and purpose. If there’s three things she believes in, they are:
- the transformational power of inclusion, innovation and superior leadership;
- that purple is truly her colour;
- and that she is the world’s best self-proclaimed vegetarian chef in the making.
As much as she loves creating art, she means to change the world with her writing (her personal blog: https://thefryingspansandflyingpuns.wordpress.com). Oh, did we mention she’s multiply neurodivergent and that her nickname in grad school is “The Purple Wonder”?
Why should you trust us?
We don’t believe there’s one ‘best’ way
We don’t believe in maturity models, “best practice”, or rigid roadmaps. We don’t just teach one model or framework of psychological safety – we teach them all, from The Four Stages (which we use to explore “wrong” models, and the Fearless Scan (where we explore diagnostic tools).
We focus on three core capabilities for organisational change.
- Contextual Labs and Workshops: discussions, ethnographic sensing, network mapping and micro-narratives.
- Experience Engineering: simulations, job probes, decision games and rapid experiments.
- Capability Networks: establishing Communities of Practice, peer learning, knowledge recombination and evolution.
Every team is different, so every approach to change is different. That’s why we take the time to understand how you and your team work and what you’re trying to achieve – and suggest the best way forward for you. And if something isn’t clicking? We simply respond, adapt, and change.
Shared learning = more value
Our team have been at the sharp end of work and also held senior leadership positions in different industries and sectors. We work with clients in many verticals, including technology, aviation, healthcare, education and more. Practices and approaches that work for one can work for another – one of our favourite things is the cross-pollination of ideas across contexts, so we use shared learnings to get the most out of your organisation – regardless of industry.
We move with the industry, and with the research
Psychological safety is all about continuous improvement. So we stay up to date on best practices by regularly talking with the psychological safety community and being involved in academic research across numerous institutions. Plus, we never stop reading. So you’ll always feel like you’re moving forwards with us, never backwards. We adhere to our core principles of psychological safety, which you can read here.
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