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Speaking Engagements

Speaking engagements address safety culture, leadership, risk, and care. The content is prepared for the event’s audience, with workplace situations participants can recognize and discuss.

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Speaking engagements for different audiences

Conventions, leadership gatherings, technical forums, internal theme weeks, and professional events bring together audiences with different needs. Each talk considers who will attend and the issues the organization wants to discuss.

Experience with organizations, leaders, and operations teams guides the content. The questions raised can continue to be discussed after the event.

Speaking topics

Safety culture under pressure

Policies and indicators show part of the culture. Decisions made in response to deadlines, risks, and events help explain how safety is treated in practice.

Leadership’s everyday influence

The response to an alert, presence in the field, and the quality of listening teach teams what matters to the organization. So does the willingness to stop an activity.

Learning from investigations

An investigation needs to explain the event and broaden understanding of the decisions, working conditions, and system factors involved.

Care in management decisions

Care is reflected in how risk signals are handled and in the consistency between the value placed on people and leadership decisions.

Developing the talk

During preparation, we discuss the event’s objective, audience profile, and organizational context. The combination of technical knowledge, professional situations, and questions helps participants relate the content to their own work.

Connections with other work

A speaking engagement can be commissioned independently or be part of a training and development agenda. If there is interest in continuing the work, that participation is defined in a separate proposal.

Further reading

In this article, I reflect on how a leader’s voice contributes to safety culture.

Let’s talk about the event.

Tell us who will be in the audience and what you would like to discuss.

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