485 Equipping leaders to foster psychological safety on interdisciplinary translational teams

Objectives/Goals: Interdisciplinary collaboration drives innovation by uniting diverse knowledge and perspectives. Leaders play a crucial role in establishing psychological safety, upon which effective collaboration relies. This study developed a workshop to support leaders in fostering psychological safety on interdisciplinary translational teams. Methods/Study Population: Purposive sampling was used to recruit senior faculty members at a large Midwestern University from biomedical, clinical, and behavioral/social science fields. Eight senior faculty members were invited via email and all consented to participate (N=8). Our sample included associate professors (n=3) and professors (n=5), from pharmacy (n=5) and medicine and public health (n=3), with one jointly affiliated with Veterans Affairs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom. Interviews explored the challenges and facilitators to creating psychologically safe environments. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Coders utilized a combination of deductive and inductive coding to conceptualize, define, and name emergent themes. Results/Anticipated Results: Through our analysis we identified a framework that included three layers: leader mindset, leader behavior, and team culture. The leader mindset describes the mindset leaders hold to create psychologically safe environments, including values of openness to feedback and commitment to trust-building. Leader behavior describes the observable actions leaders adopt to translate their mindset into everyday practice, including empowering team members and modeling effective behavior. Finally, team culture describes the shared values, expectations, and mannerisms that enable team members to build and sustain psychologically safe teams. Discussion/Significance of Impact: This study highlights how leaders approach building and sustaining psychologically safe teams. Findings can inform leadership development efforts and practical strategies for leaders to adopt. Optimizing psychological safety on interdisciplinary translational teams may promote innovation, team performance, and resilient team cultures.