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Main Stage
Mar 18, 2026
9:00 AM9:50 AM
Employee Experience and EngagementOrganizational Design
Unleashing Employees to Build a Learning Organization
Speakers:
Amy EdmondsonHarvard Business School & AuthorNovartis Professor of Leadership and Management
Description
How do we transform workplaces into environments where employees experience their work as meaningful and their teams as conducive to learning? We consider why psychological safety is a foundation for engagement, innovation, and high performance, and what leaders at all levels can do to help create it.
By shifting from a focus on engagement surveys and other metrics to action-oriented strategies that engage employees in assessing and improving their lived experience of work, people leaders at all levels can help build and manage a system in which employees co-create solutions to ongoing problems. Evidence from research and case studies supports the power of a mindset shift from measuring engagement to helping every employee engage fully in meaningful work in a positive, connected community. Ultimately, a learning organization is built not by measuring alone, but by making work better through better leadership and better systems.
Key Takeaways:
• Psychological safety as a foundation for engagement and innovation
• Actionable strategies for leaders to foster learning-focused teams
• Shifting from metrics to improving lived work experiences
• Empowering employees to co-create solutions to workplace challenges
• Building a learning organization through better leadership and systems
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