The Psychological Safety Multiplier: Neuroscience Behind High-Performing Teams
📅 Date: September 23, 2025
🕒 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
🌐 Venue: via Zoom
🎟 Registration: Complimentary for Members and Non-Members
Agenda:
7:00 - 7:15 pm Chapter Announcements
7:15 - 8:15 pm Presentation
8:15 - 8:30 pm Q&A
The Psychological Safety Multiplier: Neuroscience Behind High-Performing Teams
Psychological safety isn’t just about harmony. It’s a performance multiplier grounded in neuroscience and psychology. When teams feel safe, they shift from fear to curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. This session explores the science behind high-performing teams, highlighting how trust, connection, and positive emotions fuel stronger outcomes. We’ll also show how inclusive practices help every voice contribute fully. Through research, real-world examples, and practical tools, participants will learn how to transform everyday interactions into catalysts for trust, creativity, and project success.
Here are the learning objectives for this presentation:
1) Explain the neuroscience and psychology that link psychological safety to team performance.
2) Identify inclusive leadership practices that enable all voices to contribute fully.
3) Apply practical tools to turn everyday interactions into drivers of trust, creativity, and project success.
Speaker Bio:
Britt Sikora Drake is an accomplished Agile delivery leader with more than a decade of experience guiding cross-functional teams across sports tech, fintech, pharmaceutical research, and sports betting. Currently a Manager of Delivery Management at DraftKings, she specializes in scaling Agile frameworks that drive efficiency, predictability, and team engagement. Her career highlights include building a Scrum chapter from the ground up, scaling delivery systems through 900% growth, launching products into dozens of regulated markets, and coaching leaders to achieve 97% predictability across complex programs.
Beyond delivery excellence, Britt is deeply committed to equity and inclusion. A first-generation college graduate and LGBTQ+ professional, she holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina and an M.S. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Warwick, where her research explored how interpersonal relationships and gender identity are socially constructed. She extends her commitment to equity as the founder of a scholarship for underrepresented students in STEM. Recognized for blending candor and curiosity with data-driven coaching, Britt fosters inclusive, high-performing spaces. Outside of work, she serves as the events co-lead on the Young Friends of PAWS advisory board, mentors aspiring professionals, and dotes on her two adorable rescue pups.
