Rosa Carrillo, MSOD
Rosa Antonia Carrillo, MSOD Keynote Speaker and Consultant
Rosa Carrillo is an author of the recently released book,The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership.It has received global acclaim from thought leaders who have transformed the way we look at safety performance and the role of the safety professional.
Todd Conklin calls it, “A book whose time has come.”
Edgar Schein, safety culture expert, says, “The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership shows how open communication, trust, psychological safety, all hinge on the personal relationships which are critical in all the high hazard industries. This book should be the foundation of the training of all safety workers, managers, and leaders.
Rosa will inspire and re-energize both safety professionals and operational leaders to embrace the pursuit of full employee engagement through relationship building. She will break down the barriers and isolation that often frustrate dedicated professionals. At the core of her book are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that safety is important while meeting business results. Using stories to illustrate what successful leaders do, she explains how to create and recover important stakeholder relationships by taking action based on these beliefs. It turns out that a leader’s ability to create relationships is an important key to their success.
Her work is based on hands on experience. She has worked many change efforts in oil and gas, pharmaceutical, nuclear, mining, manufacturing and power generation in multiple countries. She has inspired audiences to “never give up their vision” as keynote speaker in countries as diverse as Bahrain, Australia, Mexico and the United States.
While managers expect employees to speak up to prevent failures and disasters, they will not unless they feel valued and respected. Using research gathered from 100’s of employees and managers, Ms. Carrillo will share the leadership actions that create trust and the ones that destroy it. Her research shows that people must feel included to trust management.
She is known for her authenticity, which enables her to teach and speak in a way that relates to real life experience. Through face-to-face presentations and conversation, Rosa inspires physical, relational and spiritual development. She has learned that the leadership journey entails continuous personal growth and always requires more work than we realize.
Rosa graduated from UCLA with a bachelors and Pepperdine University with a Masters in Organizational Development. Subsequently she started her safety leadership consulting practice in Los Angeles, California and became part of the adjunct faculty at the Presidential Key Executive MBA Program for Pepperdine.
Rosa Carrillo may be reached at: (562) 596-8537 or rosa@carrilloconsultants.com
Neil Samuels, MSOD
Neil’s mission is helping leaders flourish by re-discovering their strengths, clarifying their commitments, and creating successful teams that share a common purpose. Having devoted 27 years of his career at BP/Amoco as a geologist and internal organizational development and leadership consultant, he has turned his considerable insight to helping companies develop high performance environmental, safety and health cultures.
He believes that the quality of relationships contributes heavily to performance and that they are strengthened by conversations characterized by openness, depth and intensity. This is the path to successful, lasting change. His clients value his integrity, passion, and ability to magnify their strengths. His consulting philosophy can be succinctly summarized in two words, “Strengths” and “Accountability.”
Neil worked in London for four years as manager of organization development for BP Europe, leading a team of consultants serving 30,000 employees in 13 countries. During that time, Neil supported senior leaders in every business segment.
Since 2006 he has started his own company, Profound Conversations. His clients have included Rolls Royce, Glaxo Smith Kline, Celebrity Cruise Lines, BP, Stantec Engineering, U.S. Geological Survey, International Fluid Power Society, Kimberly Clark, the Naperville Community School District, and Aviva Investors. Neil also served as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management.
Robert E Gilbert, PE
Founder and Principal, Pisgah Advantage Consulting LLC – Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) & Resource Management Advisory Consulting
Rob Gilbert retired from Cargill in January 2017 and along with his wife Cindy of 38 years founded Pisgah Advantage Consulting LLC to channel their diverse experience toward projects that improve life and the environment through collaborative environmental, health, safety and resource management.
His career spans nearly 37 years, always focused on Environmental, Safety and Health in plant, regional, global or corporate environments and in the petroleum, metal/non-metal mining, chemicals and high-tech manufacturing industries. Rob’s experience from and more importantly his contributions to a variety of companies in these sectors have provided him a unique perspective combining the EHS disciplines across OSHA and MSHA regulated environments in the US and across multiple international geographies including the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Rob enjoyed successful careers at Pennzoil Company/Duvall Corp (Petroleum, Refining and Metal/Non-Metal Mining), Ampex Recording Media Corp (Professional Magnetic Recording Media Manufacturing), Borden Chemicals & Plastics OLP (World Class Commodity & Specialty Chemicals Production), IMERYS and predecessor English China Clays International (global white mineral mining and processing) and Cargill (underground and solution salt mining, solar salt production and manufacturing).
Ensuring the safety of all, compliance and continual improvement in EHS across these geographies and companies entailed many cultures and diversity of views, so solutions had to be creative and employee/contractor centric. Rob has a passion for doing things differently and has embraced human and organizational performance (HOP) and relationship building approaches to not just change how to work more safely but also how to operate more environmentally soundly. In the end, people do things in a manner that makes sense to them at the time they do them but perhaps with an undesirable outcome. Rob believes organizations and its people together can make a huge difference with by eliminating traditional blame focused on the employee, by the right leadership tools, with positive attitudes and most importantly with growing and supportive relationships.
Rob has observed the positive impact from HOP deployment, organizations recognizing and averting traditional production over safety mannerisms, whether direct or indirect, and proactively valuing its employees and their input. When applied throughout all levels of an operating site and consistently across an organization, the stage is set for establishing or re-establishing trust and thereby building or rebuilding relationships which in turn results in fewer SIFs and other injuries. A natural collateral benefit of HOP deployment and better relationships in the work force is taking these principles home and improving off the job and community safety. Site leadership leveraging and sharing these concepts within their community, particularly with employee support, can in Rob’s view lead to better operating rapport and company impressions with nearby citizens. Time is the true test, but the effort has been worthwhile in Rob’s experience.
Rob graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS degree in Civil Engineering with emphasis in geotechnical and water resources engineering and has a Masters of Engineering degree in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University.
Kelly Bernish
Kelly Bernish, CSP, accomplished and excellence-driven leader with a varied, highly engaged professional and volunteer career spanning more than 25 years including leading teams for the Disney, SeaWorld and Anheuser-Busch Companies, founding member and Past Chairperson of Women in Safety Engineering (WISE), as well as launching her own company, Global SHE Solutions, LLC.
Bernish’s career experience includes her current role as President of Global SHE Solutions, providing Safety, Health, Environmental and Risk Management solutions to clients in pursuit of SH&E excellence serving clients including municipalities, small and large businesses, theme park related industries as well as heavy industry. Her decades of senior management leadership experience for The SeaWorld Parks, Anheuser-Busch and Walt Disney World Parks & Resorts in roles including Safety, Health and Environmental Compliance, leadership and injury prevention, as well as Workers Compensation, General Liability and Risk Management give her a unique skill set to offer Global SHE Solutions clients.
Terry Musch
Terry heads the coaching team at Pacific Gas & Electric in San Luis Obispo coaching leadership at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and other facilities. This effort is focusing on cultural transformation at every level of the organization. Terry graduated from the University of Washington, has done graduate work at UCLA in Systems Analysis, and worked closely with W.E. Deming and Bill Conway in implementing TQM, Re-engineering, and Lean+ at a large Southern California aerospace company.
Kevin Edwards, Leadership and Organisation Development consultant UK
Kevin is founder of OB Consulting, residing in the UK and working globally. With over 25 years of consulting, Kevin brings a wealth of wisdom into our group.
His specialty is systematically creating the organisational characteristics, behaviours and practices of resilient and generative cultures.
He asks important questions, such as ‘Do busy organisations have to accept some element of risk to their works if they are to be productive?’ Kevin gets organisations to explore the seemingly polar forces of safety and production and asks if they can be brought together. He helps his clients understand that safe production need not be an oxymoron and that it is possible for organisations to develop joint management systems that simultaneously measure, control, and improve both safety and operations.
In doing so, he has helped many companies in manufacturing and other settings by offering pragmatic and sustainable OD/culture change interventions and coaching leaders to become more effective when faced with such organisational challenges.
He writes, “I set up OB Consulting in 2001 to work from a simple conviction: that trust, and relationships are the foundations of sustained performance. We partner with organisations, leaders and teams who want more than short-term fixes and are ready to shape cultures where people and systems work with, not against, each other. When an organisation starts asking people for their views, its cultural journey has already begun. How it assesses the current state, monitors progress and evaluates success shows how seriously it takes that journey.
I’m a trained facilitator and have consulted and coached internationally across a range of sectors. I’m also an accredited CIPD associate consultant and was invited to speak at their conference on Organisation Development and Effectiveness; my work in developing organisational culture has also been externally recognised.
Outside of work, I’ve recently returned to a past interest, Table Tennis where, as a junior, I played at county and national level. I’m a qualified Head Coach and support today’s aspiring juniors play at the highest level.”
