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SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Better listening is about noticing what people are already communicating, making sense of what those signals mean, and responding in a way that builds trust.
These practical, interactive workshops help leaders recognize the signals affecting safety, growth, engagement, and organizational performance.
Sessions can be delivered at conferences, leadership meetings and workplace learning events.
The Signals That Strengthen Safety
Important safety information may appear as a workaround, an inconsistency between shifts, a concern mentioned in passing, or a problem people have gradually stopped raising.
This workshop helps leaders and safety professionals catch these early signals, understand what's behind them, and respond before silence becomes risk.
Designed for:
- Health and safety and safety professionals
- Operational leaders and supervisors
- Human resources professionals
- Joint health and safety and safety committee members
- Leaders responsible for frontline teams
Participants will learn how to:
- Recognize safety signals that may be hidden in silence, workarounds and inconsistent practices
- Listen without jumping too quickly to a single explanation
- Distinguish between an immediate protective response and a longer-term assessment
- Close the loop so employees know what was heard, what will happen and who owns the next step
The experience:
Using the Listening Loop framework, participants work through a realistic workplace safety scenario, weigh competing explanations, and decide what an appropriate response looks like. Each person completes a private Safety Listening Quick Check and leaves with one listening experiment to test over 14 days.
Available formats:
- 45- or 60-minute conference session
- 60- to 90-minute organizational workshop
- In-person or virtual delivery
Ask About This Workshop
Planning a safety conference, leadership meeting or workplace learning session? Let’s discuss how the workshop can be adapted for your audience.
Listening At The Speed Of Growth
Growth changes organizations quickly. Roles stretch, priorities compete and processes that once worked begin to create friction. Leaders may still be listening, but the signals become harder to interpret as the organization moves faster.
This workshop helps leaders make faster sense of what employees, partners and communities are telling them.
Designed for:
- Business owners and senior leaders
- Scale-up and growth-stage organizations
- HR and organizational-development leaders
- Operational leaders and people managers
- Municipal and community leaders
- Organizations navigating growth, restructuring or change
Participants will learn how to:
- Spot signals of momentum, friction and silence
- Catch patterns in repeated comments, workarounds or shifting participation
- Separate one-off feedback from issues that need broader attention
- Test more than one explanation before acting
- Ask sharper questions without overpromising
- Respond proportionately and name who owns the next step
- Close the loop — even when the answer is no, not yet, or not their call
The experience:
Using the Listening Loop framework, participants work through realistic growth and friction scenarios, weigh competing explanations, and decide what a proportional response looks like. Each person completes a private Business Listening Quick Check and leaves with one listening experiment to test over 14 days.
Available formats:
- 45–60 min conference workshop
- 60–90 min leadership workshop
- Custom sessions for leadership teams, scale-ups, municipalities or community organizations
- In-person or virtual
Ask About This Workshop
Bringing people together to talk about business growth, workforce capacity or community development? Let’s discuss how this workshop can be adapted for your audience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Employee trust is essential to meaningful feedback. Surveys are anonymous, results are reported in aggregate, and small groups may be combined to help protect confidentiality.
Absolutely. Many organizations reach out after a survey to help interpret results, identify priorities, and determine next steps.
The survey is only the beginning. Results are reviewed, key themes are identified, and practical actions are developed to help leaders respond to what employees shared.
Yes. Facilitated listening sessions provide employees with an opportunity to share experiences, perspectives, and ideas in a structured environment.
Results are presented in a clear, practical format that highlights areas of momentum, friction, and silence, and includes recommended actions.
Absolutely. I specialize in engagement strategies that address the unique challenges of remote and hybrid work environments, such as communication gaps, isolation, and accountability.
Focusing my clients-base on small to mid-sized teams allows me to be responsive and adaptive, providing real-time insights and hands-on support to guide strategies into action.
I work with organizations across a variety of industries, including transportation, non-profit, service, operational, and workforce-intensive environments.
92% of executives agree that high engagement leads to happier customers
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