04.06.2026 • 14 Min.

In the main episode I made the case that psychological safety is a key performance indicator, and that the way we handle AI adoption exposes and amplifies the leadership already in place. This reflection episode is about what you can actually do about it with your own team. I share two practices and one principle for building and protecting the environment where people feel safe to say where AI is helping and where it isn't. The first practice is the muscle underneath all the others. The second turns AI mistakes into collective learning and trains a team to protect their critical thinking. Underneath both sits the responsibility to make sure that the reality of work reaches the people who decide about it.