Psychological Safety
How safe your people feel to speak up, challenge, and fail forward.
Measures team-level psychological safety across four dimensions: voice and candour, risk-taking and experimentation, inclusion and belonging, and learning orientation. This is a performance metric, not a comfort metric. Teams that feel safe to speak up, challenge, and admit mistakes out-learn teams that do not.
Your personalised report
Multi-page PDF + interactive web report
4
dimensions
Self
assessment mode
11+
report pages
90-day
action plan
What It Measures
4 dimensions, each with behavioural anchors
Every dimension is scored, benchmarked, and accompanied by specific coaching recommendations.
Voice & Candour
Do people speak up with problems, ideas, and disagreements? Or do they wait to be asked, filter heavily, or stay silent?
Risk-Taking & Experimentation
Can people try new approaches without fear of punishment if it does not work? Or does failure carry a penalty?
Inclusion & Belonging
Do all team members feel they can contribute authentically? Or do some voices dominate while others withdraw?
Learning & Growth Orientation
Does the team treat mistakes as learning events? Or does it default to blame and root-cause accountability?
What You Receive
A genuine coaching document, not a score sheet
Four-dimension safety profile with team-level scoring
Specific coaching questions designed to surface the unsaid
Pattern signatures: what the leader rewards and punishes, often unknowingly
Micro-experiments to build safety through observable behaviour change
Research-grounded framing: why safety drives performance, not just comfort
Interactive report, PDF, and Aiden AI voice debrief
Sample Report Insight
Voice and candour scored lowest. This means people are choosing what to tell you. The cost is invisible: problems arrive late, decisions go unchallenged, and the leader is the last to know what the team already sees.
Who Is It For
Built for leaders who want signal, not noise
Leaders who suspect their team is filtering what they share upwards
Teams where problems surface too late or decisions go unchallenged
Organisations running culture change or inclusion initiatives
Any leader who wants to know what their team is not telling them
Research Basis
Grounded in Amy Edmondson's psychological safety framework (Harvard Business School), adapted for leadership team contexts with behavioural anchors.
Developed by JBL High Performance
2,800+ leaders assessed worldwide
Get Started
Ready to take the Psychological Safety assessment?
From $99 you get the interactive web report, multi-page PDF, pattern signatures, micro-experiments, and three months of Aiden AI coaching.
Add 360 multi-rater feedback on other instruments for perception gap analysis. Premium includes a 1:1 debrief with Jimmy and a personalised development plan.
Questions
Psychological Safety assessment FAQs
What does the Psychological Safety assessment measure?
It measures 4 dimensions: Voice & Candour, Risk-Taking & Experimentation, Inclusion & Belonging, Learning & Growth Orientation. How safe your people feel to speak up, challenge, and fail forward.
Who is the Psychological Safety assessment for?
Leaders who suspect their team is filtering what they share upwards. Teams where problems surface too late or decisions go unchallenged. Organisations running culture change or inclusion initiatives. Any leader who wants to know what their team is not telling them.
What do I get when I take it?
Four-dimension safety profile with team-level scoring. Specific coaching questions designed to surface the unsaid. Pattern signatures: what the leader rewards and punishes, often unknowingly. Micro-experiments to build safety through observable behaviour change. Research-grounded framing: why safety drives performance, not just comfort. Interactive report, PDF, and Aiden AI voice debrief.
Is the Psychological Safety assessment free?
No, it is a paid assessment. Plans start at $99 and include the interactive web report, a multi-page PDF, pattern signatures, micro-experiments and three months of Aiden AI coaching. If you want a free starting point first, the Leadership Friction Finder shows where friction is costing your team in about 8 minutes.
Can other people rate me as well?
This one is a self-assessment, so it reflects how you see your own patterns. If you want other people's view too, pair it with a 360-enabled instrument such as Leadership Capability.
What is it based on?
Grounded in Amy Edmondson's psychological safety framework (Harvard Business School), adapted for leadership team contexts with behavioural anchors.
Not sure this is the right instrument? Start with the free Leadership Friction Finder or read what leadership friction is.