Hi, I’m Nicole Salem. I’m currently completing my M.S. in Industrial–Organizational Psychology at Marian University, where I study the science of the workplace and how people actually work. Before starting graduate school, I spent more than 10 years in operations across highly regulated environments, including serving as a CFO and HR Director in a SaaS fintech company. Much of my work focused on building and improving hiring, onboarding, and training systems, and making sure those systems...

When people talk about high-performing teams, they often focus on outcomes. Productivity, efficiency, retention, and innovation are all widely tracked and reported. But one of the most important drivers of those outcomes is rarely measured at all — psychological safety.

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