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Tom Geraghty – Biography:

“The hardest working man in psychological safety” – Amy Edmondson

Tom Geraghty is an organisational ecologist: he looks at workplaces the way he was first trained to look at living systems — as complex, adaptive, and impossible to mechanistically control. Co-Founder, with Jade Garratt, of Psych Safety, he helps teams and organisations become safer, higher-performing, and better able to learn.

His work brings together psychological safety, Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), just culture, and complexity thinking, with a consistent focus on the gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done, and on the power dynamics that shape who feels able to speak up. He works with multinational corporations, healthcare organisations, academia, and government, and is an active researcher and writer.

That perspective is grounded in a career spent inside organisations, not only studying them. Tom began as an ecologist before moving into technology, holding CTO roles across sectors from tech startups to global finance firms; experience that keeps his work rooted in the operational reality of how teams actually perform under pressure.

Tom holds a degree in Ecology, an MBA, and a postgraduate diploma in Global Health from the University of Manchester, and is an expert reviewer for BMJ Journals. He is now studying for a PhD.

His mission is to make the world of work a safer, higher performing, more inclusive and equitable place.

Outside of work, Tom spends as much time as possible outdoors, mountain biking, hiking and travelling, and is a father to a wonderful young daughter.

Personal website: https://tomgeraghty.co.uk
Psych Safety: https://psychsafety.com
LinkedIn: @geraghtytom
Mastodon: @tom_geraghty@mastodon.online
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Tom is available to speak at a select number of conferences and events each year. Previous conferences and keynotes include high-profile events such as EHS Congress, The IT Leaders Summit, NHS Senior Leadership Conference, RDF, Continuous Lifecycle London, DevOps Lisbon, Re:Develop, and many more.

Note: I make myself available to volunteer at a few non-profit events, but otherwise, I charge a fee for speaking engagements, including private/internal conferences. If you’re inviting me to speak at your conference, then we may organise a training course to run alongside the conference. The profit from the training course may eliminate the need for the conference to pay a speaking fee.

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Abbreviated biography:

Tom Geraghty is an organisational ecologist who helps teams and organisations become safer, higher-performing, and better at learning. Co-founder, with Jade Garratt, of Psych Safety, he brings together psychological safety, Human and Organisational Performance, just culture, and complexity thinking — an approach grounded in an earlier career as a CTO across sectors from tech startups to global finance firms. He holds a degree in Ecology, an MBA, and a postgraduate diploma in Global Health, and has spoken at events including EHS Congress, The IT Leaders Summit, and the NHS Senior Leadership Conference.

Connect with him on LinkedIn (@geraghtytom), or explore his work at https://psychsafety.com.

One-line bio:

Tom Geraghty is an organisational ecologist who co-founded Psych Safety with Jade Garratt, helping teams become safer, higher-performing, and better at learning.

Speaker Introduction

Our speaker today has an unusual way of looking at organisations: he treats them as living systems — complex, adaptive, and never fully under control. An organisational ecologist by background and instinct, he’s the co-founder, with Jade Garratt, of Psych Safety, where he helps teams and organisations become safer, higher-performing, and better at learning.

His work brings together psychological safety, Human and Organisational Performance, just culture, and complexity — and it’s grounded in real operational experience: before this, he spent years in C-level technology roles, as a CIO and CTO across sectors from tech startups to global finance firms. He’s now a researcher and writer whose ideas have reached audiences at events including The IT Leaders Summit and the NHS Senior Leadership Conference.

He holds a degree in Ecology, an MBA, and a postgraduate diploma in Global Health from the University of Manchester. Please join me in welcoming Tom Geraghty.