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 of the US Department of Energy Human Performance Improvement handbook to evolve principles beyond error management to mindsets and practices that enable resilience. Beth led a team to assess and then advise how to take HOP to the next level at Los Alamos National Labs (where Todd Conklin began his HOP journey).

Most recently, Beth the transformative journey from a blame culture to a culture where people genuinely believe that learning is the key to keeping people safe as Director of Safety and Human Performance at Lewis Services (one of North America’s largest vegetation management / line clearance companies, with four thousand employees). Line clearance continues to be one of the highest risk jobs globally, with multiple fatalities every year. Beth was praised as a trailblazer in the line clearance industry “What Beth Lay has done at Lewis to transform the company and lead the way in our industry is the key to creating safety.” —Competitor speaking at line clearance industry conference.

Former roles include forming then leading Siemens Energy Americas Field Service Risk Management team and Director of Human Performance at Calpine. Beth is a mechanical engineer with a master’s certificate in cognitive science.