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Minette Norman
Minette Norman helps organizations build psychologically safe, inclusive workplaces where innovation thrives. A leadership speaker and bestselling author, Minette works with executives to strengthen psychological safety, inclusive leadership, and team collaboration. Former Autodesk VP and San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women honoree.
Minette Norman helps leaders build workplaces where people feel safe enough to share their best ideas, challenge assumptions, and do genuinely creative work. She spent over two decades at Autodesk, rising from technical writer to VP of Engineering Practice, where she led 3,500 software professionals and built collaborative teams across a male-dominated industry. Her book The Psychological Safety Playbook, co-written with Karolin Helbig, became an instant number one Amazon bestseller, praised by Seth Godin as "a must-read for anyone who cares enough to lead." Her second book, The Boldly Inclusive Leader, also became an Amazon bestseller. Minette draws on her own unconventional career path to show how inclusive leadership produces measurable results. She helps executives rethink which accomplishments they reward, how teams communicate, and who gets a seat at the table. Her frameworks translate academic research on psychological safety into daily practices that leaders can implement immediately, creating conditions where diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones. Audiences leave her presentations with concrete tools: how to listen to understand rather than respond, how to encourage curiosity without losing focus, and how to build cultures where people bring forward unconventional ideas instead of staying silent. The San Francisco Business Times named her one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. Book Minette to give your leaders a practical, proven path to the kind of culture where breakthrough innovation happens.
Minette Norman brings two decades of engineering leadership at Autodesk and bestselling frameworks on psychological safety that translate directly into measurable team performance. Her work helps technical and cross-functional leaders create the conditions where diverse teams surface breakthrough ideas rather than defaulting to consensus. Particularly valuable for organizations scaling innovation or navigating cultural transformation.
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Minette Norman translates academic research on psychological safety into frameworks that leaders can apply immediately, drawing on her career trajectory from technical writer to VP of Engineering Practice at Autodesk to ground the content in lived organisational experience.
Minette Norman speaks on psychological safety, inclusive leadership, workplace culture, and building environments where diverse teams produce creative and innovative work. She is the co-author of The Psychological Safety Playbook, an Amazon number one bestseller endorsed by Seth Godin, and spent over two decades at Autodesk, where she rose to VP of Engineering Practice leading 3,500 software professionals.
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