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IOSM Neural Skills Workshop
•
Leadership Series
Creating Trust &
Psychological Safety
You know what psychological safety is. You know why it matters. What no one has taught you - until now - is how to physically train the neural skills that cause your team to biologically experience safety, trust, and permission to perform.
FORMAT
Live Online • 2 Hours
DATE
Thursday, April 23
TIME
12:00 PM ET • 9:00 AM PM
INVESTMENT
From $99 per person
Reserve Your Seat
Date and Time
Thursday, April 23 • 12 PM ET
Duration
2 Hours, Expert-Led
Also Included
Learning Portal + OMN Membership
Individual
$199 per person
Teams of 2-9
$149 per person
Teams of 10+
$99 per person
OMN Education Members
Free
Organizational delivery available for teams of 10+.
Contact us to schedule a dedicated session.
The constraint isn't
knowledge.
It's capacity under
pressure.
Most leaders understand psychological safety. Many have read Edmondson, absorbed the Google research, and can recite the four behaviors. Yet when the pressure spikes - a bad quarter, a difficult conversation, a missed commitment - the team goes quiet, and the real issue goes unsaid.
This is not a knowledge gap. It's a capacity gap. And it has a neurological explanation: when leaders operate under threat, they transmit that threat state to everyone around them. Teams don't read intentions - they read your state. And they respond accordingly, below the level of conscious awareness.
"The most important question for a leader is not 'what should I do?' - it is 'what state am I in?"
The good news: the science is now clear. Leader affective presence - the consistent emotional tone a leader carries - directly predicts team psychological safety. And that capacity is trainable. Not through insight, but through neural practice.
WHY TRADITIONAL TRAINING FAILS
Intellectual understanding produces knowledge - not behavior change. The brain systems that govern trust-signaling operate largely below conscious awareness. They can only be trained through procedural, experiential practice.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF SAFETY
When a leader activates their own threat response, mirror neurons transmit that state to the team. Cortisol suppresses judgment, creativity, and collaboration. The team is neurologically impaired - not disengaged. This is a performance problem, not a culture problem.
WHAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Regulated leaders build safer teams. When leaders train the four neural skills that underpin trust - awareness, regulation, presence, and compassion - their teams experience it as a biological signal: it is safe to speak, challenge, admit, and contribute.
THE 2025 SCARF UPDATE
New research confirms Fairness and Autonomy are now the two most sensitive threat domains for today's workforce — with direct implications for how leaders must show up right now.
“At the heart of our most intractable business problems, we find people problems: chronic stress and burnout, interpersonal conflict, miscommunication, poor decision-making, and more. We waste massive amounts of money, time, energy, and resources trying to fix these issues, yet the true costs are much larger than we know.”
Thompson et al, Harvard Business Review, 2016
4 conditions of trust.
4 trainable neural skills.
Each trust condition that others need to feel safe is paired with a specific neural skill the leader can train - and a science-based practice that builds it.
01
Saftey
"Can I speak up here?"
Awareness
Notice your internal state. Calm the nervous system. Emotional awareness under pressure.
02
Reliability
"Can I count on you?"
Regulation
Pause before reacting. Respond well to risk, mistakes, and dissent.
03
Fairness
"Will I be treated justly?"
Presence
Listen to understand - full attention without agenda. Reduces bias, increases perceived fairness.
03
Care
"Do you have my back?"
Compassion
Perspective-taking, empathy, shared humanity. Activates oxytocin - the neurochemical of connection.
What you'll gain in two hours
This is not a lecture. It is a structured, experiential training session - combining the latest neuroscience with hands-on practices you can apply before your next difficult conversation.
The real neuroscience of trust and psychological safety
How threat states propagate through teams - the amygdala, cortisol, mirror neurons, and why your state is the signal your team is reading, not your words.
The 4 conditions your team needs — and the 4 neural skills to create them
A clear, memorable model that maps the conditions of trust to specific trainable capacities - and shows exactly how each one affects team behavior.
4 evidence-based neural practices, taught and experienced
Awareness breath, the STOP practice, mindful listening, and the Just Like Me compassion practice - guided live, with immediate application to leadership situations.
The 5 patterns that silently erode trust — and how to see them in yourself
Most trust breakdowns are not intentional - they are unregulated reactions. Learn to recognize the patterns before they compound.
A behavioral commitment you can act on immediately
"When X happens, I will do Y." You leave with a specific, personal practice anchored to your real leadership triggers.
Grounded in the leading research
This workshop synthesizes the most relevant current science on psychological safety, trust, and neural training for leaders - translated into practical behavior change.
Key frameworks and research drawn on throughout the session:
Edmondson - Psychological Safety
David Rock - SCARF
Paul Zak - Oxytocin & Trust
Leader Affective Presence (2024)
Mirror Neurons & Emotional Contagion
Google Project Aristotle
Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
Procedural Learning Theory
IOSM's curriculum integrates both explicit learning - clear evidence-based understanding - and procedural neural training that directly activates the skills being taught.
More than a workshop
Every registration includes extended learning resources and access to IOSM's professional community - so what you develop in two hours continues to deepen.
The Workshop
2-hour live, expert-led session - interactive, experiential, and structured for behavior change, not just awareness
Full workshop recording - revisit any section on your own schedule in the companion portal
Slide deck and reference materials - the full visual model and key frameworks for your own use
4 guided neural practices - audio-guided, available any time in the portal for sustained development
Self-paced learning modules - optional deepening content for each of the four trust pillars
Curated research library - direct links to the key studies and foundational papers behind the content
OM Network Membership
Daily insights and deep content - curated neural training and leadership research delivered to your feed
Peer community - connect with operating leaders, HR/OD professionals, and executive coaches working the same challenges
Problem-solving forums - communities of practice in leadership, workforce, and organizational development
Research and resources - ongoing access to IOSM's growing library of vetted neuroscience and leadership science
Upcoming events and workshops - early access and member pricing on IOSM's full Neural Skills Workshop series
OMN EDUCATION MEMBERS
Already an OMN Education Member? This workshop is included in your membership. Register at no additional charge and continue building your neural leadership skills across the full IOSM workshop series.
Built for practitioners,
not beginners.
This workshop assumes you already know why psychological safety and trust matter. It gives you what comes next.
Operating Leaders
VPs, Directors, and senior managers responsible for teams and results. You've read the research. You want the practical, neuroscience-backed method for building a team that actually speaks up, performs under pressure, and trusts your leadership.
HR, OD & Talent Leaders
Human capital professionals responsible for culture, engagement, and leadership effectiveness. You're looking for solutions that move the needle — behavior change that scales, backed by current science, and deployable to real leaders in real conditions.
Executive Coaches
Coaches working with senior leaders on trust, presence, and psychological safety. This gives you a science-grounded framework and a set of neural practices to add to your client work — moving coaching conversations from insight to genuine behavioral change.
Choose your option
All registrations include the live workshop, companion learning portal, guided practices, and OM Network Community Membership.
INDIVIDUAL
$199
per person
Full access for one participant. Ideal for individual leaders and coaches.
TEAMS OF 2-9
$149
per person
Shared language and shared practice accelerates results. Bring your leadership team.
BEST FOR TEAMS
TEAMS OF 10+
$99
per person
Maximum value for larger cohorts attending the public session together.
OMN EDUCATION MEMBERS
FREE
included in membership
This workshop is fully included in your OMN Education or Certification membership.
Deliver this workshop to your organization
Available as a dedicated organizational training session for teams of 10 or more - no cap. Scheduled at your convenience, delivered live online or on-site. The same expert-led content, adapted to your team's context. Contact us to discuss dates, customization, and volume pricing.
New science. Practical solutions.
Human skills that scale.
The Institute for Organizational Science and Mind (IOSM) was created to advance the science, practice, and application of neural training in leadership, workforce, and organizational development.
Our approach is grounded in a simple but consequential insight: learning about a skill is not the same as developing the brain's capacity to perform it - especially under pressure. Conventional training transfers knowledge. Neural training develops the capacities that drive behavior in complex, high-stakes, real-world conditions.
The Creating Trust and Psychological Safety workshop is part of IOSM's Neural Skills Workshop series - a year-round program of two-hour experiential sessions, each targeting a distinct mental or emotional leadership capability with the latest neuroscience and hands-on neural practice.
10+
Neural Skills Workshops in the annual leadership and wellbeing series
4+4
Trust conditions and neural skills - a unique, actionable leadership model
2 hrs
Expert-led experiential training - maximum impact, minimum time burden
Free
OM Network Community Membership - included with every registration