Amy C. Edmondson

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2019), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 15 languages.

Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012),  Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organizational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. 

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

Featured Work

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along” spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. 

This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.

• Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
• Create a culture where it’s “safe” to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
• Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today’s knowledge economy

• Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization

Shed the “yes-men” approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. Psychological Safety at Work: How to Ensure Learning and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy helps you bring about this most critical transformation.

Extreme Teaming

Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. 

Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today’s global enterprises. 

The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries – that often are in flux. 

Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore large-scale systemic innovation that calls for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an award-winning "smart city" start-up launched with the ambitious goal of creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch. The collaboration brought together software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, builders, and technology corporations. Taking a close look at the work, norms, and values in each of these professional domains, readers gain insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging, and what leaders can do to help.

Teaming

How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming.

Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.

• Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results
• Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work
• Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well
• Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others

Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.

How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team

Books

• Edmondson, Amy C. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership. Emerald Group Publishing, 2017. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds. Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming to Innovate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. Jossey-Bass, 2012. View Details
• Moingeon, B., and A. Edmondson. Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage. London: SAGE Publications, 1996. View Details
• Edmondson, A. A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. View Details

Journal Articles

• Mortensen, Mark, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 45–49. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Derrick P. Bransby. "Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 10 (January 2023). View Details
• Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "A Strategic View of Team Learning in Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 2 (July 2022): 476–507. View Details
• Carboni, Inga, Robert Cross, and Amy C. Edmondson. "No Team is an Island: How Leaders Shape Networked Ecosystems for Team Success." California Management Review 64, no. 1 (November 2021): 5–28. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Ranjay Gulati. "Agility Hacks." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021). View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tijs Besieux. "Reflections: Voice and Silence in Workplace Conversations." Journal of Change Management 21, no. 3 (2021): 269–286. View Details
• Kerrissey, Michaela J., Anna T. Mayo, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Fluid Cross-boundary Teams." Academy of Management Discoveries 7, no. 3 (September 2021): 381–405. View Details
• De Jong, Jorrit, Amy C. Edmondson, Mark Moore, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Jan Rivkin, Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo, and Santiago Pulido-Gomez. "Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle." Stanford Social Innovation Review (website) (Spring 2021). View Details
• Kundu, Palak, Olivia Jung, Luca F. Valle, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg, and Ann Raldow. "Missing the Near Miss: Recognizing Valuable Learning Opportunities in Radiation Oncology." Practical Radiation Oncology 11, no. 3 (May 2021): e256–e262. View Details
• Kundu, Palak, Olivia Jung, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg, and Ann Raldow. "Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in Radiation Oncology." Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 47, no. 1 (January 2021): 15–22. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "The Only Thing to Fear Is Unproductive Fear." Dialogue Q1 (2021). View Details
• Kerrissey, Michaela, Patricia Satterstrom, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Into the Fray: Adaptive Approaches to Studying Novel Teamwork Forms." Special Issue on The Challenges of Working with "Real" Teams. Organizational Psychology Review 10, no. 2 (May 2020): 62–86. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. "Today's Leaders Need Vulnerability, Not Bravado." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 19, 2020). View Details
• Harvey, Jean-François, Kevin J. Johnson, Kathryn S. Roloff, and Amy C. Edmondson. "From Orientation to Behavior: The Interplay Between Learning Orientation, Open-mindedness, and Psychological Safety in Team Learning." Human Relations 72, no. 11 (November 2019): 1726–1751. View Details
• Cross, Robert, Amy C. Edmondson, and Wendy Murphy. "A Noble Purpose Alone Won't Transform Your Company: Leadership Behaviors That Nurture Interpersonal Collaboration Are the True Drivers of Change." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 2 (Winter 2020). View Details
• Kundu, Palak, Olivia Jung, Kathy Rose, Chonlawan Khaothiemsang, Nzhde Agazaryan, Amy C. Edmondson, Michael L. Steinberg, and Ann C. Raldow. "Psychological Safety and Near Miss Events in Radiation Oncology." Journal of Clinical Oncology 37, no. 27 suppl. (September 20, 2019): 231. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Tiziana Casciaro, and Sujin Jang. "Cross-Silo Leadership." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 3 (May–June 2019): 130–139. View Details
• Koh, Howard, Sara J. Singer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Health as a Way of Doing Business." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 321, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 33–34. View Details
• Swendiman, Robert A., Amy C. Edmondson, and Najjia N. Mahmoud. "Burnout in Surgery Viewed Through the Lens of Psychological Safety." Annals of Surgery 269, no. 2 (February 2019): 234–235. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Extreme Teaming in an Uncertain World." Life Science Leader (April 2018). View Details
• Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 346–360. View Details
• Lee, Michael Y., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 35–58. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Special Issue on Creating High Performance Teamwork in Organizations. Human Resource Management Review 28, no. 4 (December 2018): 347–360. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation." Design Intelligence Quarterly 23 (Third Quarter 2017): 16–18. View Details
• Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning." Academy of Management Discoveries 3, no. 3 (September 2017): 302–321. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 6 (June 2016): 53–59. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Monica Higgins, Sara J. Singer, and Jennie Weiner. "Understanding Psychological Safety in Healthcare and Education Organizations: A Comparative Perspective." Special Issue on the Role of Psychological Safety in Human Development. Research in Human Development 13, no. 1 (2016): 65–83. View Details
• Casciaro, Tiziana, Sigal G. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, Cristina B. Gibson, David Krackhardt, and Giuseppe Labianca. "The Integration of Psychological and Network Perspectives in Organizational Scholarship." Special Issue on the Psychology of Organizational Networks. Organization Science 26, no. 4 (July–August 2015): 1162–1176. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Chris Argyris (1923–2013)." American Psychologist 70, no. 5 (July–August 2015): 473. View Details
• Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Organization Science 26, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 405–422. View Details
• Nawaz, Haseeb, Amy C. Edmondson, Tony H. Tzeng, Jamal K. Saleh, Kevin J. Bozic, and Khaled J. Saleh. "Teaming: An Approach to the Growing Complexities in Health Care: AOA Critical Issues." Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 96, no. 21 (November 5, 2014). View Details
• Valentine, M., and A. C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Organization Science 26, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 405–422. View Details
• Schippers, M. C., A. C. Edmondson, and M. A. West. "Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures." Small Group Research 45, no. 6 (December 2014): 731–769. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei. "Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 1 (2014): 23–43. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Hannes Leroy. "Preface." In Leading in Health Care Organizations: Improving Safety, Satisfaction and Financial Performance. Vol. 14, edited by Tony Simons, Hannes Leroy, and Grant T. Savage, xv–xxii. Advances in Health Care Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2013. View Details
• Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes. "Informal Peer Interaction and Practice Type as Predictors of Physician Performance on Maintenance of Certification Examinations." JAMA Surgery 149, no. 6 (June 2014): 597–603. View Details
• Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard. "Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 113–119. View Details
• Valentine, Melissa, Ingrid M. Nembhard, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments." Medical Care 53, no. 4 (April 2015): e16–e30. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Teamwork on the Fly." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012). View Details
• Carmeli, Abraham, Asher Tishler, and Amy C. Edmondson. "CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure." Strategic Organization 10, no. 1 (February 2012). View Details
• Detert, J. R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 3 (June 2011): 461–488. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Strategies for Learning from Failure." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011). View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, Tiona Zuzul, and Robert Eccles. "Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments." Blog: Early Ecocities. Economist: The Ideas Economy (January 10, 2011). View Details
• Goodman, Paul S., Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior 31 (2011): 151–176. View Details
• Edmondson, A. C., and I. Nembhard. "Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits." Journal of Product Innovation Management 26, no. 2 (March 2009): 123–138. View Details
• Kish Gephart, Jennifer, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 163–193. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "The Competitive Imperative of Learning." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 60–67. View Details
• Garvin, David A., Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino. "Is Yours a Learning Organization?" Harvard Business Review 86, no. 3 (March 2008): 109–116. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Sara J. Singer. "Confronting the Tension Between Learning and Performance." Systems Thinker 19, no. 1 (February 2008). View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., James R. Dillon, and Kate Roloff. "Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process." Academy of Management Annals 1 (2007): 269–314. View Details
• Edmondson, A. C., and S. E. McManus. "Methodological Fit in Management Field Research." Academy of Management Review 32, no. 4 (October 2007). View Details
• Tucker, A. L., I. Nembhard, and A. C. Edmondson. "Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units." Management Science 53, no. 6 (June 2007): 894–907. View Details
• Detert, J. R., and A. C. Edmondson. "Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak Up." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007). View Details
• Nembhard, Ingrid Marie, and A. Edmondson. "Making It Safe: The Effects of Leader Inclusiveness and Professional Status on Psychological Safety and Improvement Efforts in Health Care Teams." Special Issue on Healthcare: The problems are organizational not clinical. Journal of Organizational Behavior 27, no. 7 (November 2006): 941–966. (Award for Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship, Ross School of Business, University of Maryland.) View Details
• Roberto, Michael A., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Facing Ambiguous Threats." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006). View Details
• Edmondson, A. C., and D. M. Smith. "Too Hot to Handle? How to Manage Relationship Conflict." California Management Review 49, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 6–31. View Details
• Cha, Sandra, and Amy Edmondson. "How Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." Leadership Quarterly 17, no. 1 (February 2006): 57–78. View Details
• Cannon, M. D., and A. C. Edmondson. "Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve." Long Range Planning 38, no. 3 (June 2005): 299–319. View Details
• Edmondson, A. C. "Learning from Failure in Health Care: Frequent Opportunities, Pervasive Barriers." Quality & Safety in Health Care 13, no. 6 (December 2004): 3–9. View Details
• Lee, Fiona, Amy C. Edmondson, Stefan Thomke, and Monica Worline. "The Mixed Effects of Inconsistency on Experimentation in Organizations." Organization Science 15, no. 3 (May–June 2004): 310–326. View Details
• Tucker, A., and A. Edmondson. "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change." California Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2003). (Winner of Accenture Award For the article published in the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management​.) View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Speaking up in the Operating Room: How Team Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams." Journal of Management Studies 40, no. 6 (September 2003): 1419–1452. View Details
• Edmondson, A., Michael A. Roberto, and Michael Watkins. "A Dynamic Model of Top Management Team Effectiveness: Managing Unstructured Task Streams." Leadership Quarterly 14, no. 3 (June 2003): 297–325. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, Gary P. Pisano, Richard Bohmer, and Ann Winslow. "Learning How and Learning What: Effects of Tacit and Codified Knowledge on Performance Improvement Following Technology Adoption." Decision Sciences 34, no. 2 (spring 2003): 197–223. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Framing for Learning: Lessons in Successful Technology Implementation." California Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 34–54. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and Sandra Cha. "When Values Backfire." Harvard Business Review 80, no. 11 (November 2002). View Details
• Sole, Deborah, and Amy Edmondson. "Situated Knowledge and Learning in Dispersed Teams." British Journal of Management 13 (September 2002): S17–S34. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "The Local and Variegated Nature of Learning in Organizations: A Group-Level Perspective." Organization Science 13, no. 2 (March–April 2002): 128–146. View Details
• Carroll, J. S., and A. C. Edmondson. "Leading Organizational Learning in Health Care." Quality & Safety in Health Care 11, no. 1 (March 2002): 51–56. View Details
• Tucker, Anita L., Amy C. Edmondson, and Steven Spear. "When Problem Solving Prevents Organizational Learning." Journal of Organizational Change Management 15, no. 2 (2002). (Best paper proceedings, Academy of Management Conference, Healthcare Management Division.) View Details
• Tucker, A. L., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Managing Routine Exceptions: A Model of Nurse Problem Solving Behavior." Advances in Health Care Management 3 (2002): 87–113. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano. "Disrupted Routines: Team Learning and New Technology Adaptation." Administrative Science Quarterly 46, no. 4 (December 2001): 685–716. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano. "Speeding Up Team Learning." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 9 (October 2001): 125–134. View Details
• Pisano, Gary P., Richard Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 47, no. 6 (June 2001): 752. View Details
• Bohmer, Richard, and A. Edmondson. "Organizational Learning in Health Care." Health Forum Journal (March/April 2001), 32–35. View Details
• Cannon, M., and A. Edmondson. "Confronting Failure: Antecedents and Consequences of Shared Beliefs About Failure in Organizational Work Groups." Special Issue on Shared Cognition. Journal of Organizational Behavior 22, no. 2 (March 2001). View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Book Review of The Innovation Journey by Van de Ven, Polley, Garud and Venkataraman." Academy of Management Review 25, no. 4 (October 2000). View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Book Review of Theory and Research on Small Groups edited by R. Scott Tindale et al." Administrative Science Quarterly 45, no. 3 (September 2000). View Details
• Gurwitz, J. H., T. S. Field, J. Avorn, D. McCormick, S. Jain, M. Eckler, M. Benser, A. Edmondson, and D. W. Bates. "Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events in the Nursing Home Setting." American Journal of Medicine 109, no. 2 (2000): 87–94. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1999): 350–383. (Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior, 2000 by the Academy of Management.) View Details
• Edmondson, A., and B. Moingeon. "The How and Why of Organizational Learning." Financial Times (February 6, 1998), 14–15. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and B. Moingeon. "From Organizational Learning to the Learning Organization." Management Learning 29, no. 1 (1998): 5–20. View Details
• Cullen, D. J., J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson, and L. L. Leape. "Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units." Critical Care Medicine 25, no. 8 (August 1997): 1289–1297. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Learning from Mistakes Is Easier Said than Done: Group and Organization Influences on the Detection and Correction of Human Error." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 32, no. 1 (March 1996): 5–28. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Three Faces of Eden: The Persistence of Competing Theories and Multiple Diagnoses in Organizational Intervention Research." Human Relations 49, no. 5 (1996): 571–595. View Details

Book Chapters

• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. "Leadership in Times of Upheaval: The Rise of the Empathic Leader." In Social Scientists Confronting Global Crises, edited by Jean M. Bartunek. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021. View Details
• Schippers, Michaéla, Amy C. Edmondson, and Michael A. West. "Team Reflexivity." In The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning, edited by Linda Argote and John M. Levine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin. "The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management." In How Could this Happen? Managing Errors in Organizations, edited by Jan U. Hagen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. View Details
• Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019. View Details
• Schippers, Michaela C., Michael A. West, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Reflexivity and Innovation." In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes, edited by Eduardo Salas, Ramon Rico, and Jonathan Passmore, 459–478. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. View Details
• Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teaming Routines in Complex Innovation Projects." In Organizational Routines: How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed. Vol. 5, edited by Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langly, and Haridimos Tsoukas. Perspectives on Process Organization Studies. Oxford University Press, 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Psychological Safety." In Contemporary Organizational Behavior: From Ideas to Action, by Kimberly D. Elsbach, Anna Kayes, and D. Chris Kayes. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2015. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Martine Haas, John D. Macomber, and Tiona Zuzul. "The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability." Chap. 11 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tiona Zuzul. "Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, October 2013.) View Details
• Roloff, Kathryn S., Anita W. Woolley, and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Contribution of Teams to Organizational Learning." In Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. 2nd ed. Edited by M. Easterby-Smith and M. Lyles, 249–272. London: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. View Details
• Herron, Jock, Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles. "Beyond Platinum: Making the Case for Titanium Buildings." Chap. 4 in Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability, by Rebecca L. Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman, 77–100. MIT Press, 2013. View Details
• Cannon, Mark D., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Learning from Failure." In Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, edited by Norbert M. Seel, 1859–1863. New York: Springer, 2012. View Details
• Rashid, Faaiza, and Amy Edmondson. "Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in High Risk Endeavors." Chap. 6 in Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring Challenges and Emerging Answers, edited by Roderick Kramer and Todd Lowell Pittinsky, 129–150. Oxford University Press, 2012. View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Annissa Alusi, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul. "Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?" Chap. 18 in Infrastructure Sustainability and Design, edited by Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos, and Daniel Schodek, 247–265. New York: Routledge, 2012. View Details
• Nembhard, Ingrid M., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Psychological Safety: A Foundation for Speaking Up, Collaboration, and Experimentation." In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. Oxford University Press, 2011. View Details
• MacPhail, Lucy H., and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error." In Errors in Organizations, edited by D. Hoffman and M. Frese. Routledge, 2011. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Crossing Boundaries to Investigate Problems in the Field: An Approach to Useful Research." In Useful Research: Advancing Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman and Edward E. Lawler III. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011. View Details
• Fried, Bruce J., Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." In Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 6th ed., edited by Lawton Burnes, Elizabeth Bradley, and Bryan Weiner. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2011. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail. "Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition." In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311–332. Psychology Press, 2009. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and Kate Roloff. "Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams." In Team Effectiveness in Complex Organizations: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches, edited by E. Sales, G. G. Goodwin, and C. S. Burke.Organizational Frontiers Series. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008. View Details
• Singer, Sara Jean, and A. C. Edmondson. "When Learning and Performance Are at Odds: Confronting the Tension." In Learning and Performance Matter, edited by Prem Kumar and Phil Ramsey. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008. View Details
• Edmondson, A. C. "Psychological Safety." In International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, edited by Stewart R. Clegg and James R. Bailey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007. View Details
• Hackman, J. Richard, and A. C. Edmondson. "Groups as Agents of Change." In Handbook of Organization Development, edited by Thomas G. Cummings. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2007. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and Josephine Pichanick Mogelof. "Explaining Psychological Safety in Innovation Teams." In Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams, edited by L. Thompson and H. Choi, 109–136. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. View Details
• Edmondson, A., Erika Ferlins, Laura Feldman, and Richard Bohmer. "The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats." In Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster, edited by M. Farjoun and W. Starbuck, 220–245. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. View Details
• Fried, Bruce M., Sharon Topping, and A. Edmondson. "Groups and Teams." In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior, edited by S. Shortell and A. Kaluzny. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1994. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and J. R. Detert. "The Role of Speaking Up in Work Life Balancing." In Work and Life Integration, edited by E. Kossek and S. Lambert. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Psychological Safety, Trust and Learning: A Group-level Lens." In Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches, edited by Roderick Kramer and Karen Cook, 239–272. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. View Details
• Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "Consumer-Driven Health Care: Management Matters." Chap. 52 in Consumer-Driven Health Care, edited by Regina E. Herzlinger, 570–588. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. View Details
• Lee, F., A Caza, A. Edmondson, and S. Thomke. "New Knowledge Creation: A Study in Positive Organizing." In Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by K. S. Cameron, J. E. Dutton, and R. E. Quinn. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Anita Williams Woolley. "Understanding Outcomes of Organizational Learning Interventions." Chap. 10 in Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, edited by M. Easterby-Smith and M. Lyles, 185–211. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Managing the Risk of Learning: Psychological Safety in Work Teams." In International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork, edited by M. West. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. View Details
• Sole, D., and A. Edmondson. "Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-Functional Development Teams." In The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge: A Collection of Readings, edited by C. W. Choo and N. Bontis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard Bohmer, and Gary Pisano. "Learning New Technical and Interpersonal Routines in Operating Room Teams: The Case of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." In Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Technology. Vol. 3, edited by B. Mannix, M. Neale, and T. Grifith, 29–51. Stamford: JAI Press, 2000. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "A Safe Harbor: Social Psychological Factors Effecting Boundary Spanning in Work Teams." In Research on Groups and Teams, edited by B. Mannix, M. Neale, and R. Wageman, 179–200. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1999. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and B. Moingeon. "Learning, Trust and Organizational Change: Contrasting Models of Intervention Research in Organizational Behavior." In Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice, edited by L. Araujo, J. Burgoyne, and M. Easterby-Smith. London: Sage Publications, 1999. View Details
• Moingeon, B., and A. Edmondson. "Trust and Organizational Learning." In Trust, Learning and Economic Expectations, edited by N. Lazaric and E. Lorenz, 247–84. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998. View Details
• Leonard, Dorothy A., P. A. Brands, Amy Edmondson, and Justine Fenwick. "Virtual Teams: Using Communications Technology to Manage Geographically Dispersed Development Groups." In Sense and Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, 285–98. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Learning from Mistakes Is Easier Said than Done: Group and Organization Influences on the Detection and Correction of Human Error." In Organizational Psychology, edited by D. Kolb, I. Rubin, and J. McIntyre. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1979. View Details
• Moingeon, B., B. Ramanantsoa, and A. Edmondson. "Confiance et Recherche-intervention." In Pour une Nouvelle Approche du Management Public: Reflexions Autour du Michel Crozier, edited by M. Finger and B. Ruchat, 131–151. Paris: Éditions Seli Arslan, 1997. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and B. Moingeon. "When to Learn How and When to Learn Why: Appropriate Organizational Learning Processes as a Source of Competitive Advantage." In Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage, by B. Moingeon and A. Edmondson. London: Sage Publications, 1996. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and B. Moingeon. "The Learning Organization: An Integrative Approach." In Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives. Vol. 2, edited by A. F. Alkhafaji. University Press of America, Inc., 1995. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Notes on Edgar Schein." In The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, edited by P. Senge, R. Ross, B. Smith, C. Roberts, and A. Kleiner, 267–268. New York: Doubleday, 1994. View Details
• Edmondson, A., and S. Janger. "Business in Transformation." In Creative Work, edited by W. Harman and J. Horman. Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems, 1990. View Details

Working Papers

• Bresman, Henrik, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Exploring the Relationship between Team Diversity, Psychological Safety and Team Performance: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-055, February 2022. View Details
• Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "Team Learning and Superior Firm Performance: A Meso-Level Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-059, December 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-013, August 2016. (Revised February 2017.) View Details
• Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Inequality in Knowledge Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-001, July 2012. (Revised August 2017.) View Details
• Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-062, January 2012. (Revised June 2014.) View Details
• Rashid, Faaiza, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-089, February 2011. View Details
• Alusi, Annissa, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul. "Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-062, December 2010. (Revised January 2011, March 2011, April 2011.) View Details
• Staats, Bradley R., Melissa Valentine, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-031, September 2010. (Revised December 2010, May 2011, and October 2011.) View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

• Edmondson, Amy C., and Michael Roberto. "Executive Decision-Making at Zola." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 623-033, November 2022. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Herman B. Leonard, Michael W. Toffel, and Michael Norris. "Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy." Harvard Business School Case 622-116, July 2022. (Revised November 2022.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Michael Roberto. "Executive Decision-Making at Zola." Harvard Business School Case 622-074, May 2022. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Claudia Pienica. "Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force." Harvard Business School Case 622-079, February 2022. View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim, and Sarah E. Farrell. "Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water." Harvard Business School Case 412-100, January 2012. (Revised April 2012.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 622-047, November 2021. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Olivia Jung. "The Turnaround at Ford Motor Company." Harvard Business School Case 621-101, April 2021. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Elena Corsi. "Leading Culture Change at SEB." Harvard Business School Case 621-074, February 2021. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Nancy Boghossian Staples. "Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-077, December 2020. (Revised October 2021.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Nancy Boghossian Staples. "Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Streamlining a Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 621-076, December 2020. (Revised October 2021.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Michaela J. Kerrissey. "Enabling Teamwork at the Cleveland Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 621-040, September 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Joshua Raymond. "Cockpit Dynamics in Air France 447 and United 232." Harvard Business School Case 620-127, April 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-126, April 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, Ranjay Gulati, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-058, September 2019. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, Ranjay Gulati, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-059, September 2019. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ranjay Gulati, Patrick J. Healy, and Kerry Herman. "The Genesis Lab at Novartis." Harvard Business School Case 620-007, November 2019. View Details
• Fuller, Joseph B., Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Tonia Labruyere. "Corporate Transformation at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany." Harvard Business School Case 319-072, December 2018. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Jean-François Harvey, and Johnathan R. Cromwell. "Leading Open Innovation at BT." Harvard Business School Case 619-013, July 2018. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Community Values and Learning Culture Agreement Supplement." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 617-706, April 2017. View Details
• Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel-Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 417-709, February 2017. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., David Ager, and Emily Harburg. "Teaming at Disney Animation." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 617-036, January 2017. View Details
• Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 417-706, November 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai, and Jean-François Harvey. "Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues." Harvard Business School Case 617-007, August 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Emer Moloney. "Sustainability at Siemens." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 516-118, May 2016. (Revised August 2016.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)." Harvard Business School Case 616-034, January 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 616-035, January 2016. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ashley-Kay Fryer, and Morten T. Hansen. "Transforming Care at UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge." Harvard Business School Case 615-052, March 2015. View Details
• Rangan, V. Kasturi, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Emer Moloney. "Sustainability at Siemens." Harvard Business School Case 514-026, August 2013. (Revised January 2016.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Bethany S. Gerstein, and Melissa Valentine. "Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-063, April 2014. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Bethany Gerstein, and Melissa Valentine. "Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 614-083, June 2014. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., David L. Ager, Emily Harburg, and Natalie Bartlett. "Teaming at Disney Animation." Harvard Business School Case 615-023, August 2014. (Revised May 2015.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Annelena Lobb. "Arup: Building the Water Cube." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 614-082, June 2014. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Barbara Larson. "The Deep: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 614-071, June 2014. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "The Deep: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 614-055, February 2014. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "The Deep: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-054, February 2014. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Danone – Networking Attitude." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 614-702, November 2013. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Kerry Herman. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 613-012, May 2013. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Jeremy Tachau. "'Argo': The CIA's Mission Impossible in Iran." Harvard Business School Case 613-087, April 2013. (Revised August 2016.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and James Weber. "Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 413-064, September 2012. (Revised December 2012.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, John Macomber, and Ryan Johnson. "Living PlanIT (TP) ." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 413-039, August 2012. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Mary Saunders. "Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green." Harvard Business School Case 613-053, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.) View Details
• Tucker, Anita, and Amy Edmondson. "Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Video Supplement 2012." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 613-710, February 2013. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona Zuzul. "Designing a Culture of Collaboration at Lake Nona Medical City." Harvard Business School Case 613-022, October 2012. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and David Lane. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 613-003, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Kerry Herman. "Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (B) ." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-096, May 2012. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Kerry Herman. "Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-095, May 2012. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Faaiza Rashid, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-046, November 2011. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Natalie Kindred. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (TN) (A), (B) and (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 610-076, May 2010. (Revised April 2012.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ruth Dittrich, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-079, May 2011. (Revised March 2012.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ruth Dittrich, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-080, May 2011. (Revised March 2012.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim, and Sarah E. Farrell. "A Note on Water." Harvard Business School Background Note 412-050, August 2011. (Revised February 2012.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, Faaiza Rashid, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-047, November 2011. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
• Roberto, Michael, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 305-033, June 2005. (Revised May 2018.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti, and Akiko Kanno. "Ricoh Company, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 610-053, February 2010. (Revised December 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Bertrand Moingeon, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Ane Damgaard Jensen. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-107, December 2007. (Revised September 2011.) View Details
• Tucker, Anita L., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center." Harvard Business School Case 609-109, June 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-044, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-064, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-086, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A), (B), (C), and (D) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-032, September 2003. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-016, September 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-017, September 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-018, September 2009. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Bradley R. Staats, and Melissa Valentine. "Program Management at Wipro Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 611-052, January 2011. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Turnaround at the VHA (TN) (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-176, June 2008. (Revised December 2010.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Yi Kwan Chu. "Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai." Harvard Business School Case 411-040, December 2010. (Revised November 2013.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. Case Series (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 611-030, September 2010. View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Abhijit Prabhu. "The Greening of DUMBO." Harvard Business School Case 410-079, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana Karadzhova. "Arup: Building the Water Cube." Harvard Business School Case 410-054, February 2010. (Revised June 2010.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tiziana E. Casciaro. "Leading Change at Simmons (TN) Case Series." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 607-144, May 2007. (Revised May 2010.) View Details
• Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission." Harvard Business School Case 304-090, April 2004. (Revised May 2010.) View Details
• Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Thyne, and Tiona Zuzul. "Living PlanIT." Harvard Business School Case 410-081, February 2010. (Revised November 2013.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Thyne. "Leading Change at Simmons (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-061, February 2010. (Revised March 2010.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Charlie Eitel, CEO, Simmons - 2003." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 610-703, October 2009. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Charlie Eitel, CEO, Simmons - 2008." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 610-705, October 2009. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Tiziana E. Casciaro. "Leading Change at Simmons (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-062, September 2007. (Revised May 2009.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Tiziana E. Casciaro, and Kate Roloff. "Leading Change at Simmons (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-063, September 2007. (Revised May 2009.) View Details
• Roberto, Michael, Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Laura Feldman, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 305-032, March 2005. (Revised May 2009.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Ann Cullen. "Information Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 609-027, July 2008. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Ann Cullen. "Information Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 609-028, August 2008. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Michael Roberto, and Laura Feldman. "Children's Hospital and Clinics (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 303-071, June 2003. (Revised August 2008.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., and Amy C. Edmondson. "YUM! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 606-108, April 2006. (Revised April 2008.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Verizon: The Introduction of DSL (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-056, September 2007. (Revised April 2008.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Transformation at the IRS (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-057, January 2008. (Revised April 2008.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, and Christine Harris-Van Keuren. "Cleveland Clinic (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-124, March 2008. (Revised April 2008.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy, and Barbara Larson. "The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-140, February 2008. (Revised February 2017.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Mitchells/Richards (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-090, February 2008. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Brian R. Golden. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-062, August 2007. (Revised January 2008.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Brian R. Golden, and Gary J. Young. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-061, July 2007. (Revised January 2008.) View Details
• Roberto, Michael A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Everest Leadership and Team Simulation." Simulation and Teaching Note. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008. Electronic. (Product number 2650.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ingrid M. Nembhard, and Kate Roloff. "Children's Hospital and Clinics (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-073, September 2007. (Revised October 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Charlotte Pride: Simmons Bedding Company (DVD)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 608-701, October 2007. View Details
• Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren, and Eliot Sherman. "Cleveland Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 607-143, May 2007. (Revised September 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Michael Roberto, and Anita L. Tucker. "Children's Hospital and Clinics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-050, November 2001. (Revised September 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., John A. Davis, Corey B. Hajim, and Kelly Mulderry. "The Mitchell Family and Mitchells/Richards." Harvard Business School Case 605-047, November 2004. (Revised September 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Kathryn S. Roloff. "Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 606-123, June 2006. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
• Casciaro, Tiziana E., Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus, and Kate Roloff. "Leading Change at Simmons (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-046, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
• Casciaro, Tiziana E., Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus, and Kate Roloff. "Leading Change at Simmons (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 406-047, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, and Corey B. Hajim. "Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients." Harvard Business School Case 603-067, October 2002. (Revised April 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Corey B. Hajim. "Safe to Say at Prudential Financial." Harvard Business School Case 603-093, February 2003. (Revised March 2007.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 607-063, February 2007. (Revised April 2013.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Victoria Winston. "Dansko, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 606-071, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.) View Details
• Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 605-069, February 2005. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
• Frei, Frances X., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Influencing Customer Behavior in Service Operations." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-061, March 2006. View Details
• Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, James Weber, and Eliot Sherman. "Yum! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over." Harvard Business School Case 606-041, September 2005. (Revised January 2006.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Ninth House: e-Learning Software (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 605-063, March 2005. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Stacy McManus. "A Note on Methodological Fit in Management Field Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 604-072, January 2004. (Revised February 2005.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Michael A. Roberto, and Richard M.J. Bohmer. "Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2005. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9297C.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Safe to Say at Prudential Financial (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-021, September 2003. (Revised March 2004.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Kristin Lieb. "Richmond Events." Harvard Business School Case 604-055, November 2003. (Revised February 2004.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Large-scale Change at the WSSC (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-078, January 2004. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Electric Maze Exercise, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 604-046, October 2003. (Revised January 2004.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Frances X. Frei, and Corey B. Hajim. "Ninth House: e-Learning Software." Harvard Business School Case 601-047, January 2001. (Revised January 2004.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 603-070, October 2002. (Revised May 2021.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 603-072, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 603-073, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Corey B. Hajim. "Mitchells/Richards." Harvard Business School Case 604-010, July 2003. (Revised December 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "Organizing to Learn Module Note." Harvard Business School Module Note 604-031, October 2003. (Revised November 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Electric Maze Exercise, The (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-020, October 2003. (Revised October 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 604-035, October 2003. (Revised January 2016.) (Six supplements available for Chris Berkowitz, Dana Jones, Jan Trow, Kim Wilson, Leslie Rhee, and Terry Maneri.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Michael Roberto. "Children's Hospital and Clinics." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-802, August 2003. View Details
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• Edmondson, Amy C., and Corey B. Hajim. "Large Scale Change at The WSSC." Harvard Business School Case 603-056, February 2003. (Revised March 2003.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Frances X. Frei, and Corey B. Hajim. "Transformation at the IRS." Harvard Business School Case 603-010, September 2002. (Revised November 2002.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-068, October 2002. (Revised May 2021.) View Details
• Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Catalyst Medical Solutions (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 602-032, November 2001. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Naomi Atkins. "Catalyst Medical Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 601-014, July 2000. (Revised November 2001.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Naomi Atkins. "GM Powertrain TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 601-036, July 2000. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., and Mikelle Eastley. "GM Powertrain." Harvard Business School Case 698-008, June 1998. (Revised April 2000.) View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Emily Heaphy. "Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 600-083, April 2000. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Emily Heaphy. "Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-154, March 1999. (Revised February 2000.) View Details

Presentations

• Edmondson, Amy C. "How to Lead in a Crisis." In The Way We Work Series. TED Talks, October 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C. "The Impact of Covid-19 on Psychological Safety in the Workplace (Interview)." HSTalks Business and Management Collection (April 23, 2020). View Details
• "The Psychological Safety Imperative." HSTalks: The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd., April 30, 2020. View Details
• Edmondson, Amy C., Ann Winslow, Richard Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano. "Different Patterns of Performance improvement for explicit and tacit knowledge: An empirical test." . View Details
• Dillon, James R., Shikhar Sarin, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams." Paper presented at the Product Development and Management Association Annual Global Conference on Product Innovation Management, Orlando, FL, September 2007. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Methodological Fit in Management Research." Kurt Lewin Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 1, 2003. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "How Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams." Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, Department of Work, Organization and Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 1, 2003. View Details
• Edmondson, A. "Methodological Fit in Organizational Field Research: A Framework." Paper presented at the MIT Organization Studies Seminar, December 01, 2002. View Details

Other Publications and Materials

• "The Fearless ICU." Critical Matters (podcast), Sound Physicians, February 24, 2022. View Details
• "How to Let Go of Perfectionism." Well Balanced (podcast), March 7, 2022. (Season 1, Episode 18.) View Details
• "Amy Edmondson, Professor Leadership & Management at Harvard." Leadership Bites (podcast), October 4, 2021. View Details
• "Amy Edmondson." Episode 78. Play to Potential (podcast), September 2, 2021. View Details
• "Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One." Episode 430. Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, July 27, 2021. View Details
• "How to Build Psychological Safety in Your Workplace with The Fearless Organization Author, Amy C. Edmondson." Episode 169. The Melting Pot (podcast), November 9, 2021. View Details
• "The Secret to Building a Higher-Performing Company—Amy Edmondson." Selling with Love (podcast), July 15, 2021. (Formerly Superhumans at Work.) View Details
• "LeadershipLIVE™—Dr. Amy Edmondson." LeadershipNOW (podcast), July 12, 2021. View Details
• "Matthew Barzun and Amy Edmondson." Great Podversations (podcast), July 9, 2021. View Details
• "Amy Edmondson: Are You Missing One of Your Most Important Jobs as a Manager?" Episode 18. The Breakdown with Chris Clearfield (podcast), February 18, 2021. View Details
• "Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations." No. 51. Scaling Culture (podcast), June 16, 2021. View Details
• "Psychological Safety and Fearless Organisations." Episode 112. Corporate Unplugged (podcast), December 28, 2020. View Details
• "How to Build Psychological Safety, with Amy Edmondson." Episode 404. Coaching for Leaders (podcast), April 14, 2019. View Details
• "Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace." HBR IdeaCast (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, January 22, 2019. View Details
• "Encore Teams That Succeed with Amy Edmondson." Out of the Comfort Zone (podcast), VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network, January 1, 2021. View Details

Research Summary

Overview

My research examines psychological safety and cross-boundary teaming within and between organizations. I am particularly interested in how leaders enable the learning and collaboration that are vital to performance in a dynamic environment. In one stream of my research, I study collaboration among diverse experts to solve challenging problems in cities. In this stream, teaming across industry boundaries is increasingly important. Yet, teaming and learning among diverse experts, facing high uncertainty, requires facing both interpersonal and technical risks. A second stream of my research examines how leaders create psychological safety in support of organizational agility as needed to thrive in fast-paced, challenging, uncertain contexts.

Awards & Honors

Ranked #1 in the 2021 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.

Winner of the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from INGRoup in 2021.

Received the IOC Vision of Excellence in Leadership Award from the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital in 2021.

Received the Talent Development Champion Award from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in 2021.

Named 2020 Valkhof Chair by the Radboud University Medical Center.

Finalist for the 2019 McKinsey Award for the Best Article in Harvard Business Review for "Cross-Silo Leadership" (May–June 2019) with Tiziana Casciaro and Sujin Jang.

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was named one of Soundview Magazine’s Best Business Books of 2019.

Winner of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management.

Named the Most Influential International Thinker in Human Resources by HR Magazine in 2019

Winner of the 2019 Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for being a “pioneer of psychological safety and author of The Fearless Organization, a ground-breaking blueprint on creating a fear-free culture.”

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was named one of the Best International Non-Fiction Books of 2019 by the Sharjah International Book Fair.

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was listed as #14 on the Porchlight Business Best Seller list in 2019.

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was selected as an 800-CEO-READ Business Book in the Management and Workplace Culture category in 2018.

Winner of the 2018 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School.

Named one of the 20 Most Influential International Thinkers in Human Resources by HR Magazine in 2018.

Included in the 2017 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.

Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Talent Award.

Named as one of the Most Influential International Thinkers in Human Resources by HR Magazine in 2017.

Winner of the 2017 So!WHAT Award for the most outstanding article from five years earlier for “CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure” (Strategic Organization, February 2012) with Abraham Carmeli and Asher Tishler.

Winner of the First Annual OBHR Distinguished Scholar Award from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management in 2017.

Named as one of the Most Influential International Thinkers in Human Resources by HR Magazine in 2016.

Included on the 2015 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.

Awarded the Doctorem Honoris Causa from Universiteit Maastricht in 2013.

Included on the 2013 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.

Named as one of the Most Influential International Thinkers in Human Resources by HR Magazine in 2013.

Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division for "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work" (Academy of Management Journal, 2011) with James Detert.

Honorable Mention, 2012 Best Conference Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society for "Managing Ambiguity: Growing a New Business in a Nascent Industry" with Tiona Zuzul.

Winner of the Best Paper with Practical Implications Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management for her paper with Melissa Valentine, "Team Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming" (HBS Working Paper 12–062 and Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2012).

The 16th Annual Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Interactive Award in eLearning in 2011 with Michael Roberto for “Leadership and Team Simulation: Everest V2.”

Winner of the Best Article published in 2011, from the Academy of Management Journal, for "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work" with Jim Detert (June 2011).

Winner of the 2004 Accenture Award for "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change" (with Anita Tucker, California Management Review, winter 2003).

Winner of the 2000 Academy of Management Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior for "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams" (Administrative Science Quarterly, December 1999).

Additional Information

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Areas of Interest

• leading change
• organizational behavior
• organizational learning
• psychological safety
• teams
Additional Topics
• corporate culture
• group dynamics
• health care quality
• leadership
• service operations
• top management teams
• trust
• values
Industries
• consulting
• health care
• nonprofit industry
• professional services

In The News

In The News

• • 01 Mar 2022
  • Fortune

  Four Warning Signs of a Psychologically Unsafe Culture for Women of Color
• • 20 Dec 2021
  • The Anxious Achiever Podcast

  Psychological Safety in Theory and In Practice
• • 02 Dec 2021
  • Harvard Business School

  HBS Faculty Recognized in 2021 “Thinkers 50” List
• • 01 Dec 2021
  • Australian Financial Review

  18 Books Every Business Leader Should Read
• • 29 Nov 2021
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