Interview with Gitte Klitgaard

Gitte Klitgaard is our guest. She will tell us her experiences and practices with the pattern “Blameless inquiry” for the Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/organization-culture/blameless-inquiry). We will explore the different behaviours at a team and individual level, and how we can nurture a healthy culture. We discuss some tabu topics, such as mental health; what should organisations pay attention to, and how to act in order to protect people. Gitte recommends: Amy Edmonson - Building a psychologically safe workplace (https://diversity.lbl.gov/2019/09/24/tedx-talk-on-psychological-safety/) Brené Brown - The power of vulnerability (https://brenebrown.com/videos/ted-talk-the-power-of-vulnerability/) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler  Gitte (@nativewired) has been an agile coach at leading companies like Spotify, LEGO and IBM for more than a decade and has been independent since 2013. Her main focus in the last years have been communication and implementing psychological safety as well as responsibility and accountability. It is essential for Gitte to be authentic, to cut to the chase, and help people become themselves, so they can succeed at work and outside. She also spends time being a speaker, mentor, and trainer and have so far keynoted on three continents - often about the things that we forget to talk about. Gitte describes herself as “curious, hippie, friend, hugger, geek and learner”