Translating CEO Forum Phases to Teams (Part 1)

In an article I wrote last year for CEOWORLD Magazine titled “CEO forums, Maximizing Psychological Safety Is Hard: CEO Forums Explain Why,” I described a four‑phase journey that CEO peer advisory groups experience as they create and work to sustain psychological safety among their members. As I reflected on this framework, a natural question emerged:

To what extent can that same four‑phase model apply to organizational teams? In other words, can this construct be mapped into departmental and cross-functional teams? What are the possibilities and limits of doing so, and how do we keep our forums and teams operating in the upper right quadrant? For the complete article, click here: https://ceoworld.biz/2025/10/30/translating-ceo-forum-phases-to-teams-part-1/