Work
Psychological Safety
I both publish on and present on strategies for organizations from top to bottom to recognize unsafe teams and build toward teams that fail forward using psychological safety tenants.
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The latest presentation to the right, The Fearless Organization, references Dr. Amy Edmondson's 2018 book. Her seminal article at Harvard Business Review is "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams."​
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Powers, A., & Fife, D. (2025). Psychological Safety in Libraries: It’s a Team Sport. College & Research Libraries News, 86(3), 104. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.86.3.104
AI for Leadership
Academic Leaders are faced with decisions about how to manage the whiplash changes in information environments. These range from managing expectations across campus to providing ethical leadership to allocating resources for new technological investments. I have begun presenting on these new challenges in order for leadership to explore paths forward. I believe the essential work that the library must do in this environment is to educate our constituencies on what is "under the hood." This is the same work we have done with databases, Google, OPACs, etc. In using AI (which is a given), they need to know what they are and aren't searching.
