Measure and improve psychological safety in your organization.
The Fearless Organization Scan.
Psychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s the foundation of innovation, trust, and performance. The Fearless Organization Scan helps you measure it, understand it, and improve it.
Think your team feels safe to speak up? Let’s find out. The Fearless Organization Scan turns assumptions into data—and data into action.
No fluff, no guesswork. Just real data about how your team thinks, feels, and speaks up—or doesn’t.
Will you hold your scroll, please? We want to get you to the right place; what brings you here?
FOS Assessment
Thought Design administers the FOS assessment.
Get Certified
Become a certified FOS Practitioner.
Not Sure?
If you’re not sure which option is best, let’s talk about it!
psy·cho·log·i·cal safe·ty (definition)
Psychological safety is what makes it possible for people to speak up without looking over their shoulder. It’s the difference between a team that just nods along and one that actually thinks, questions, challenges, and creates.
When psychological safety is high, people take risks, admit mistakes, and have the kind of honest conversations that move work forward. When it’s low, people shut down, play small, and avoid conflict—and the cost shows up everywhere: in stalled innovation, silent meetings, and high turnover.
Psychological safety isn’t about comfort. It’s about creating the conditions where the human brain—and the human behind it—can do its best work.
Beyond the surface.
Most leaders don’t realize they’re creating the very silence and hesitation they’re frustrated by. Psychological safety isn’t a soft skill—it’s the blind spot keeping teams from speaking up, pushing back, and thinking bigger.
Download our no-fluff guide to psychological safety—because if people don’t feel safe, nothing else sticks.
What It Measures &Why It Matters
The Fearless Organization Scan measures psychological safety—the sense that it’s safe to speak up, take risks, admit mistakes, and ask for help without fear of punishment or humiliation.
It doesn’t just give you a generic culture score. It shows you how safety plays out across four critical dimensions:
Willingness to Help
Inclusion & Diversity
Attitude Towards Risk & Failure
Open Conversation
You’ll see how your team really feels—not just what they say in a meeting. The result? Clear, actionable data that helps you target what needs attention before it shows up in turnover, disengagement, or performance gaps.
What to Expect
The Fearless Organization Scan is simple, insightful, and built for action, not shelfware.
Anonymous Survey – Your team answers a short, research-backed set of questions across four dimensions of psychological safety. It takes about 5 minutes, and we handle the logistics.
Custom Report – You get a clear, visual report showing where safety is strong, where it’s struggling, and how it varies across teams or roles. No vague culture scores.
Facilitated Debriefing – We walk you and your team through the results, highlight key patterns, and help you make sense of what’s really going on beneath the surface.
Next-Step Strategy – Because data without action is pointless, we help you translate the insights into real next steps—team conversations, leadership development, or broader culture work.
Your Options for the Fearless Organization Scan
Option 1:
Thought Design can work with you on a plan to assess your team and navigate through the results. This is a unique opportunity to have a certified expert partner with you and your team to administer the scan and dive deep into the results. We’ll work with you every step of the way.
Option 2:
You can become a certified practitioner through Thought Design’s certification process, where you have access to the scan and can use the tool at your discretion and however often you’d like. Thought Design becomes a training partner and is available throughout the training process and into the administration portion to provide guidance and support.
FOS Assessment
Thought Design administers the FOS assessment.
Get Certified
Become a certified FOS Practitioner.
Not Sure?
If you’re not sure which option is best, let’s talk about it!