Keynote Topics

Enablers and Disablers in Safety:

Do you help or hurt your safety culture?

(Category: Leadership, Transformation, Culture)

This presentation will explain 6 subtle ways leaders unintentionally disable the potential of their safety program and it will focus on 6 ways that they can ENABLE safety success.  Safety is not an add-on to normal work.  It is a mindset that should be integrated into the full cycle of work.  The way we think and talk about safety is important.  Learn how we can help and not hurt the process.  

Sustainable Project Delivery:

How do you rollout an initiative that last?

(Category: Leadership, Transformation, Culture)

Great ideas are common but effective implementation is rare.  This presentation will help you avoid the pitfalls of introducing a “flavor of the month” safety initiative.  This Sustainable Project Delivery model will focus on 5 critical steps to rollout your ideas and anchor them into your culture.  The process will help build sustainable safe habits that support safe cultures.

Hearts + Minds Safety Leadership:

What does a safe day look like?

(Category: Leadership, Culture)
This presentation is intended to provide knowledge for those individuals who may have responsibility for coaching, facilitating, instructing, implementing, and leading safety.  This presentation will reference Hearts + Minds leadership principles such as; 1) People make mistakes fallible. 2) Error-likely situations are predictable. 3) Organizational processes and values influence behavior. 4) Frontline leaders motivate safe behaviors. 5) Events can be avoided by understanding the reasons mistakes occur and applying the lessons learned from past events. 6) Learning is an improvement strategy.  The presentation will also offer simple methods to minimize mistakes with engagement and planning.

Why Did I Do That? 10 Reasons We Take Chances:

Risk Perception & Tolerance: Does everyone perceive and tolerate risk at the same level?

(Category: Leadership, Decision Making, Trend Analysis)

The dynamics of how we make decisions is complex and our ability to perceive danger is one of the first steps to prevent injuries. What is the right level of risk perception and better yet, how do you teach people to recognize hazards. If risk perception is the first step to preventing injuries, developing the appropriate level of risk tolerance can guide you to make the right decisions. This presentation opens a dialog for how to improve safety performance by understanding why people take chances.  The presentation also offers tools and techniques to influence safe decisions.

It Made Sense at the Time:

CONTEXT Root Cause Analysis Class

(Category: Leadership, Root Cause Analysis)

The topic provides a tactical approach to identifying the causes of an event. Instructors teach participants to apply proven techniques that will help them learn the context of the event. Once participants can understand the context, they have a better chance to influence the future.

Make Safety is Contagious:

Learn 6 keys to help make your safety message viral.

(Category: Leadership, Communication, Marketing, Change Management)

There are six components that make a message, initiative, or product contagious in Jonah Berger’s book, Contagious; why things catch on. Each component is a missing link to many safety communication campaigns. You can differentiate your safety culture if you learn and apply these practical applications for getting people excited about your safety culture. Participants will leave the session with a clear vision of what they need to do next to make their safety program contagious.

Performance Based Safety Leadership:

How do safety character, mentality, and focused drive impact safety performance?

(Category: Leadership, Performance)

Most corporations claim similar safety values, but few companies deliver world class safety performance. Why is there disparity in safety performance? Simple, some companies lack the right safety character, mentality, and drive to achieve positive results. As an OSHA Compliance Officer, I observed companies with a comprehensive knowledge of fundamental safety concepts, but they did not balance their intellectual safety knowledge with a “boots on the ground” reality. Conceptual safety is worthless without the ability to produce positive results. The goal for this presentation is to provide a progressive method to balance your safety character and mentality with desired results.

Leading Safety Transformation:

How do you initiate positive change?

(Category: Leadership, Change Management)

There are eight steps to leading change in John Kotter’s book, Leading Change. Each step has a practical application for building a performance minded safety culture. The purpose of this presentation is to share practical examples of you use these steps to drive improvement. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of how change initiatives succeed and fail.