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 built around relationships. So when psychological safety is overlooked, those relationships are too. And your organisation suffers. Let’s stop that from happening.
Tom Geraghty
Founder / CEO of Iterum Ltd
After completing a degree in ecology, Tom’s first job title was “Experimentalist”. From there, he’s gone from IT and engineering to 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 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 all of Tom’s, and others’, resources for others to benefit from.
Tom is also a father, an avid mountain biker, and studying for a Master’s Degree in Global Health & Humanitarianism. Full bio is here.
Jade Garratt
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 educational spaces. The opposite, in fact, of the environment she experienced.
Undeterred from pursuing a career in education, Jade has 15 years of experience across various sectors, including secondary education, the charity sector, policing, higher education and private industry. Jade is an advocate for lifelong learning, holding positions from classroom teacher to senior leadership in educational enhancement. Alongside this work she has gained a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and is working towards a PhD in Educational Practice with the University of Nottingham.
Jade helps ensure 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.
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.
Tom Barron
Marketing 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”?
Balázs Szakmáry
DevOps Specialist
Bea Poyton
Content creator and researcher
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.
Why should you trust us?
We don’t believe there’s one ‘best’ way
We don’t adhere to one particular framework. 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 roadmap for you. And if something isn’t clicking? We simply switch it up.
Shared learning = more value
We’ve held senior leadership positions and we work with clients in many industries, including technology, aviation, healthcare, education and more. And practices that work for one can work for another. 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.
