Colleen
Pimentel
Key Account Executive at Google
"The Safety Dividend: Leading the Future of Work Through Authenticity and Purpose"
"The Safety Dividend: Leading the Future of Work Through Authenticity and Purpose"
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Session: The Safety Dividend: Leading the Future of Work Through Authenticity and Purpose
In high-growth technology sectors, leadership often equates high-pressure environments with maximum productivity. However, neurobiology reveals that when a workplace is driven by fear, the brain’s "courage circuit" shuts down, replaced by a survival instinct that prioritizes error-avoidance over breakthrough innovation . To build a resilient company culture, leadership must shift from managing "roles" to empowering "people" by creating a radical alignment between individual purpose and organizational goals .Key Takeaways
- The Biology of Innovation: How creating a "threat-free" environment moves teams from a state of self-protection to a state of mastery and risk-taking .
- Designing for Individual Purpose: Strategies to ensure that personal fulfillment and meaning are integrated into the daily work experience
- Safety as Scalability: How a safe environment allows for the "bite-sized" risks and small wins necessary for continuous growth .
- Replacing the "Inner Critic" Culture: Transitioning to high-accountability compassion as a more sustainable engine for resilience and learning from failure .
Bio
Colleen Pimentel is a Founder, Author, and Go-to-Market (GTM) Business Leader with three decades of experience in the technology sector. Having navigated over 10 career reinventions, Colleen specializes in helping high-achieving leaders move beyond exhaustion to unlock their most purposeful professional chapters. She provides practical strategies to ensure that organizational actions align with deep human values, building corporate cultures defined by unwavering purpose rather than just external achievement.