Building Psychologically Safe Workplaces: Strategies for HR Leaders
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Speaker : Nqobile Pamela Xaba
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When : Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Nqobile Pamela Xaba is an HR Professional, Leadership Consultant, and Transformational Facilitator with over 20 years of cross-sector experience spanning financial services, FMCG, public sector, and ICT industries. She is the Founder of Nonkosi Creatives, a consultancy focused on activating human-centred leadership and organisational culture transformation.
Pamela holds a Business Administration degree from GIBS Business School, with awards in Strategic Marketing and Self-Mastery. Her work sits at the intersection of people, purpose, and performance — crafting strategies that are both soul-led and business-driven.
She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Business Management at the Central University of Technology and hosts the acclaimed podcast The Diversity Roundtable, where she curates dialogue on leadership, identity, and inclusion.
Core Focus Areas:
- Leadership Development & Culture Transformation
- DEIB Strategy & Training
- HR Strategy, Talent Acquisition & Coaching
- Facilitation of Strategic Dialogues
- Women Empowerment & Advancement
Pamela believes that leadership is a daily act of humanity, and her mission is to help organizations lead with empathy, amplify human potential, and build cultures that reflect the best of who we can be.
Psychological safety is a critical element of a healthy workplace culture. Coined by Harvard researcher Amy Edmondson, it refers to the shared belief that it’s safe to take interpersonal risks — to speak up, offer ideas, ask questions, or admit mistakes without fear of humiliation.
For HR leaders, psychological safety is not just a concept to promote, but a foundation to embed in hiring, onboarding, performance management, and leadership development.
In this session, we’ll explore how psychological safety intersects with organisational trust, employee well-being, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll look at real-life organisational case studies and HR challenges that often hinder psychological safety, such as micromanagement, fear-based cultures, and unconscious bias.
Most importantly, we’ll unpack the role of HR in leading and sustaining psychologically safe cultures through practical strategies, frameworks, and facilitation techniques. You’ll leave the session with tools to influence leadership behaviours, elevate employee voice, and shift the organisational mindset toward openness, learning, and resilience.
Areas Covered
- What psychological safety is — and what it isn’t
- The business and human case for psychological safety
- Links between psychological safety, inclusion, and performance
- Common barriers to psychological safety in HR systems
- HR's role in building and sustaining psychological safety
- Creating trust-based policies, systems, and leadership behaviours
- Facilitating open dialogue and feedback cultures
- Psychological safety audits: what to measure and how
- Tools to support leaders and teams in building safety
- Real-world examples and case studies
Who Should Attend
- HR Managers and Executives
- Talent & Learning Professionals
- Organisational Development Practitioners
- DEIB Officers
- Team Leaders and Line Managers
- Culture and Change Consultants
Why Should You Attend
In workplaces where psychological safety thrives, employees speak up without fear, innovation flourishes, and teams become more resilient and engaged. But achieving this state doesn't happen by accident, it requires intentional HR leadership, courageous conversations, and culture-shifting practices.
This session is designed to empower HR professionals to not only understand psychological safety as a concept but also to own their role in creating these environments across teams and functions. You’ll gain insight into the business case, neuroscience, and DEIB links behind psychological safety, and learn how to translate these insights into tangible HR strategies.
Whether you’re responding to employee engagement gaps, preparing for cultural transformation, or building a more inclusive organization, this session will help you lead with empathy, credibility, and impact.
Topic Background
Psychological safety is increasingly recognized as a core driver of organisational performance, innovation, and inclusion. For HR leaders, understanding and embedding psychological safety is no longer a “nice to have” but a strategic imperative.
In an era marked by workplace disruption, hybrid environments, and increased mental health awareness, HR professionals are tasked with building ecosystems where people feel seen, heard, and valued without fear of retribution or ridicule.
This course bridges the gap between theory and practice, equipping HR leaders with actionable strategies to build and sustain psychologically safe workplaces.
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$160.00
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