A healthcare improvement initiative

Practice conversations.
Protect patients.

Practical tools help healthcare teams speak up, listen well, and turn safer conversations into measurable improvement.

Healthcare professionals listening to one another during a team huddle
Safer culture is built in the conversations teams practice together.

Make the safer conversation easier to start.

Healthcare teams solve hard problems every day. The words needed to question, clarify, or raise a concern can still be difficult to find in the moment.

Safety Huddle Collab is building a growing suite of short, practical huddle tools that help teams rehearse those moments, measure change responsibly, and share useful learning.

Psychological safety becomes real when teams have practical ways to build it.

Practice. Measure. Share.

We connect human-centered practice with the structure healthcare teams need to learn and improve.

Practice
Illustration of healthcare teammates practicing a speaking-up scenario during a huddle

Build confidence before the hard moment.

Brief, realistic experiences help teams rehearse respectful and direct safety conversations.

Measure

Understand whether the work is helping.

Sound measurement and quality-improvement pathways make local progress easier to see.

Share

Turn local learning into shared knowledge.

Clear evidence stories help responsible practices travel across teams and settings.

Small moments can change a culture.

A short huddle, a practiced phrase, and a leader who listens can change what happens next.

  1. Name the challenge Choose the safety conversation your team needs to strengthen.
  2. Practice together Build shared language through brief, realistic team experiences.
  3. Learn from change Measure participation, experience, and outcomes thoughtfully.
  4. Share what works Organize the evidence so others can learn from the work.
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Our first initiative

Speak Up - I’ve Got Your Back!

A customizable safety-huddle card game and improvement platform for healthcare teams.

Early use is encouraging. A larger trial is the next step before drawing conclusions about impact.

  • Practice realistic speaking-up conversations
  • Use validated psychological-safety measurement
  • Organize quality-improvement and evidence pathways
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Built around the people doing the work.

Different roles bring different knowledge. Safer care depends on making room for all of it.

Frontline teams
Practice language that supports safer everyday work.
Healthcare leaders
Help concerns become shared learning and accountable action.
Educators and improvers
Connect team development with rigorous improvement methods.
Researchers and partners
Help useful practices become responsible shared knowledge.
Safety Huddle Collab

Start with the next conversation.

See how Speak Up helps teams turn a few practiced words into meaningful improvement. As new tools are developed and tested, they will live here.

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