Safe Enough to Soar ― Accelerating Trust, Inclusion & Collaboration in the Workplace

Bestselling authors and renowned diversity consultants Fred Miller and Judith Katz bring their long-awaited new book that shows any manager or member of a team how to create safe environments for everyone in their company.

Do you feel safe enough at work to share your ideas, thoughts, and experiences? Raise tough issues? Deal with conflicts? Do your best work?

Many people feel unsafe in work interactions. They hold back, hesitate, and make themselves smaller out of fear of ridicule or retribution. The lack of safety is why new ideas and new people often have such a hard time succeeding in today's organizations, and directly contribute to why stress levels are so high. Many people have the skills they need to do their best work and the ideas to solve problems but lack the safety to apply them. This book describes what constitutes a safe environment and the actions--by both leaders and team members--necessary to create collaborative, inclusive workplaces in which people feel safe enough to be their best selves. Written in plain, everyday language, Safe Enough to Soar identifies the default mindsets and behaviors that create hostile work environments and block collaboration, engagement, partnership, and the acceptance of new ideas and new people. Expert authors Fred Miller and Judith Katz chart a simple, step-by-step process that will enable organization's individuals, work-groups, and teams to skip past the dysfunctional mire of defensiveness, micro-aggressions, cover-your-ass compromises, and judging, and launch them into the innovation-inspiring, collaboration-fostering zone of organizational bravery. When people feel safe enough to act and interact, they step up, speak up, and fully engage...and they and their organizations spread their wings and soar.

Frederick A. Miller is a pioneer in implementing inclusion-building processes in organizations, and is a partner in The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group since 1979, and has been CEO since 1985. He has served on the boards of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., the Institute for Development Research, the National OD Network, and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He has worked with CEOs and senior level executives from such companies as Mobil, DuPont, Grainger, Toyota, Foxwoods Casino, Eileen Fisher, United Airlines, the McArthur Foundation, the City of San Diego, and Apple. He is the coauthor of The Inclusion Breakthrough, Be BIG, and Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration.
As one of the nation's thought-leaders on diversity and inclusion, Judith Katz helped pioneer and define anti-racism training. Since 1985, she has partnered with Frederick A. Miller as Executive Vice President of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. She is the coauthor of The Inclusion Breakthrough, Be BIG, and Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration. She has consulted to many of the most progressive organizations in the world, including Merck & Co., Eileen Fisher, Cummins Engine Company, Toyota, DuPont, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Social Venture Network.