The Amy Edmondson
Framework
Psychological Safety & the Fearless Organization
Amy Edmondson represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Amy Edmondson's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The psychological safety & the fearless organization framework distils Amy Edmondson's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Amy Edmondson made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Amy Edmondson's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Amy Edmondson's thinking.
Psychological safety is not about comfort or niceness. It is the shared belief that the team will not punish or humiliate someone for speaking up with questions, concerns, mistakes, or dissenting ideas. Edmondson's foundational insight, drawn from her hospital nursing research, is that high-performing teams reported *more* errors, not fewer, because they felt safe enough to name them. The goal is not a conflict-free workplace but a *learning system* where the cost of candor is lower than the cost of silence.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
"What do we know, what don't we know, and what are we most at risk of not finding out in time?"
4 more questions in Amy Edmondson's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Amy Edmondson actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Amy Edmondson's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Amy Edmondson, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →amy-edmondson.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →amy-edmondson-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Amy Edmondson. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.