Jul 19, 2023 | Client Side Chats
Join James as he discusses how small achievements add up to great successes for safety. In this two-part series, Joel discusses his experiences with successes and how working to get several wins added up to overall positive achievements. Joel is an American Society of Safety Professionals Fellow and an accomplished, professional teacher, and he’s influenced many safety professionals who are successful in their careers today.
Jul 5, 2023 | Client Side Chats
Join James as he chats with Christine Sullivan, SVP Risk Control Director at Sompo International and most recent Past-President for the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), as we discuss how we get to where we want to be in safety. As Christine states, it’s a journey and how important diversity is in moving things forward: changes are made through inclusion and steps. Christine and James also discuss DEI as a business driver and how safety fits within. Christine also chats a bit about her tenure in ASSP and the joys of being a volunteer leader, including how ASSP works and what you get back from being a volunteer leader.
Jun 28, 2023 | Client Side Chats
Join James as he talks with safety professional Jewuan Long, CSP, owner of JL Consulting, as he discusses what it’s like to be an experienced safety professional starting a new business. Together they discuss some of the considerations for starting a new business because it’s “all you” to make it work. Jewuan points out how it’s a challenge to balance a family with demands of serving clients and traversing the various regulatory requirements for being in business for yourself.
Jun 21, 2023 | Client Side Chats
In this episode, James has a wonderful conversation with Brent Knight, CSP, Intuitive Safety Solutions, Inc. as they discuss how safety professional success isn’t the work of one person; rather, it’s many who provide guidance and thought as mentors throughout out each other’s careers. Mentorship can be informal or formal, and Brent discusses this with James focusing on ASSP as a great place to meet others, network, and using examples of how he is helping others and how others are helping him.
Jun 7, 2023 | Client Side Chats
Join James and Peter Evans, MEng, GSP, Deputy Director, Marine Corps Base Hawaii Safety, as he discusses his journey from doing safety as an ancillary safety inspection process to engaging people into the safety process for success. The realization came from experience and education, and the perspective of employee view of success for safety learning from failures.
May 31, 2023 | Client Side Chats
In part 2 of our Client Side Chats with Dan Snyder, Ed.D, CSP, James and Dan turn their discussion to understanding the business of safety and how to influence organizations and leaders. Dan shares an example to illustrate the realistic results and how taking steps yields results rather than spending time trying to get everything all at once: it’s about building success.
