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IMPACT! Fostering Community. Elevating Learning. Embracing Purpose.
The Community of Human and Organizational Learning’s 30th Annual Learning Conference!

From June 10th to 14th, our gathering at the stunning Hilton Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, NV, promises three immersive days packed with insights, innovation, and collaboration. Dive into an array of complimentary workshops on Monday, kickstarting an enriching week, and explore paid workshops on Friday for a deeper dive into specialized topics.

Join us in this milestone – 30 years – as we delve into the realms of human and organizational learning, fostering connections and paving the way for transformative ideas.

This year, our conference theme is IMPACT! Fostering Community. Elevating Learning. Embracing Purpose. But, what exactly does this mean?
Community: Forge connections that transcend the conference, building a network of support and inspiration that lasts a lifetime. This is a safe space where you can openly discuss successes and failures, surrounded by a community of educated and engaged individuals.
Learning: Prepare to expand your horizons and revolutionize your approach to learning. We’ll explore cutting-edge organizational, resilience, and safety models. Discover different ways organizations are harnessing learning to drive meaningful change and gain insights that will revolutionize your approach to knowledge transfer.
Purpose: Our purpose is clear: facilitating opportunities for people to take their organizational and personal impact to new heights.





Thursday, June 13 • 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Enabling your Safety Teams to “guide adaptability” (coach, support and serve).

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A recent paper by David Woods claims to resolve the command-adapt paradox by using “guided adaptability” to cope with complexity.  Many safety practitioners learned that safety was accomplished through a “telling” style: telling workers the rules, telling workers to comply, and instructing workers what to do.  David Woods notes “increasing pressure for compliance with plans, standards, and procedures inevitably increases brittleness and degrades the ability of the system and organization to adapt to challenges ahead.”  So, what is a safety professional to do?
New View Safety and Resilience Engineering philosophies believe that learning is the key to keeping people safe…and learning is best accomplished with Safety Teams who coach, support, and serve. Teams aligned with New View Safety believe that workers are experts in how to do the work and understand that work is always variable (Work As Imagined seldom equals Work As Done). Resilience Engineers expand from a STATIC view of risk: identify all hazards and risks PRIOR to starting work –and you’ll be ok - to acknowledging that work is variable, and risk is DYNAMIC thus people need to adapt to get work done successfully.
In this workshop, we will explore developing Safety Teams who can work successfully with New View Safety and Resilience Engineering philosophies. We will explore how Safety Teams can enable guided adaptability when people and systems are challenged within the dynamic environments that ALWAYS exist.
Conference Presenters
avatar for Beth Lay

Beth Lay

Director, Forge Works
Beth’s expertise is in applying Resilience Engineering, High Reliability Organizing, Safety II, and Human and Organizational Performance.Beth advised NASA on "engineering" to increase resilience of International Space Station operations support. She is currently co-leading a rewrite... Read More →
avatar for David Provan, Ph.D.

David Provan, Ph.D.

Managing Director, Forge Works
David understands how to lead organizational-wide strategy and change – to improve safety outcomes, having advised boards in energy, oil, gas, rail and construction for 15 years. Today, an international thought leader in safety management, David started out as a graduate safety... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Lago (Breakout #7)- Garden Level: 1st Floor
  Breakout, Conference Day 3

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