Safe Danger: Mini-Workshop on Oct 22nd 2025 in San Francisco

"Delightful and profound, Safe Danger may be one of the most useful management books you will read this year. With its engaging stories and practical creative activities, Ben Swire offers a timeless guide to living a fuller and more innovative life while becoming a better leader."

 -Amy Edmonson, Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School

Books are funny things: we usually read them alone, yet the best ones only really come alive when they’re talked about together. That’s why some of the most powerful changes we’ve seen in teams come not from a handout or keynote, but from a simple act, a group of people reading the same book at the same time.

With the Safe Danger book out, we want to invite you to think about it not just as a personal read, but as a shared tool:

• a gift for a team

• a starting point for a book club

• a way to align a department around curiosity, creativity, & connection

Teams are choosing to read it together because it gives them a common language for trust, risk, and creativity — the kind of conversations that rarely happen on their own. That's one of the reasons The Next Big Idea Club and The Association for Talent Development both selected Safe Danger as their October book selection. Plus it's full of original illustrations from New Yorker Cartoonist, Juan Astasio!

If you’d like to explore a bulk order for your team, we’d love to make it easy for you. (Just see the link below or reply here and we can help.)

You can check out Ben's recent and upcoming conversations on these podcasts:  

• Daily Creative with Todd Henry

• Inside Personal Growth

• Design Better

• The Strategy Skills Podcast

• School for Startups

Whether it’s in a bookstore, a podcast feed, or a team room, the throughline is the same: when people share ideas together, connection comes alive.

Want to get Safe Danger for your team of 2 or more?