Amy Edmondson
Amy Edmondson is a Harvard Business School professor, author, and speaker who explores how people speak up, work together, and learn from failure.
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- Work
- Author, researcher, speaker, and Harvard Business School professor
- Focus
- Psychological safety, teaming, and learning from failure
- Education
- AB, AM, and PhD from Harvard University
- Early career
- Chief engineer for Buckminster Fuller in the early 1980s
- Teaching
- At Harvard Business School since 1996
Mini bio
How it started.
Before becoming a professor, Amy worked as chief engineer for architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. She later directed research at Pecos River Learning Centers, working on organizational change, and earned her graduate degrees at Harvard.
The surprise that shaped her work.
As a doctoral student studying hospital teams, Amy expected stronger teamwork to go with fewer medical errors. Instead, better teams had more reported errors. The finding led her to examine whether those teams were more willing to talk about mistakes, opening a path into her research on psychological safety.
Ideas you can use.
Amy joined Harvard Business School in 1996. Her books and talks bring questions about teamwork and learning to a wider audience. The Fearless Organization focuses on workplaces where people can speak up; Right Kind of Wrong explores how to learn from failure. The latter won the 2023 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year award.
Creditschronological, newest first
Writing
- 2025What People Get Wrong About Psychological SafetyCo-author with Michaela J. Kerrissey
- 2023Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing WellAuthor
- 2018The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and GrowthAuthor
Talks
- 2018How to turn a group of strangers into a teamTED speaker
Awards
- 2026 Warren Bennis PrizeWith Michaela Kerrissey, for What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety.
- 2023 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearWinner for Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well.
- 2019 Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea AwardRecognized for her work on psychological safety.
- 2017 Thinkers50 Talent AwardAward recipient.
Quotes
It matters how you fail.Amy Edmondson, official website
From the Big Think+ video featured at https://amycedmondson.com/.
Trivia
- Her first degree at Harvard was in engineering and design.
- Before her academic career, she worked with Buckminster Fuller.
- Her TED talk about teaming draws on the 2010 rescue of 33 miners in Chile.
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