Good, Grounded Work
Thank you for visiting this page. The rest of my site outlines the services I provide and the training and education that allows me to execute good work. This page is dedicated to what my work is grounded in: professional ethics and what that means to me. If you are in agreement with what follows, I'd love to work with you and your organization!
Professional Ethics
I have and continue to build a practice grounded in:
Respect for Confidentiality
Safety concerns, work refusals, and accident investigations are a company's internal business to be managed. When working with me, you can be assured that I will keep information confidential. Within safety education and training, I may draw upon circumstances that I have navigated to illustrate a point; however, though my time working for Gowlings LLP, where I traversed both legal cases and providing engaging training that included storytelling, I became adept at being able to share the pertinent facts of a situation and its outcomes without providing identifiers that would reveal the company involved. It is the lessons learned that is important and powerful when relaying these experiences to those who may not be fully aware of the devastation a workplace accident creates or the need for established, documented due diligence. Over the years, relaying the what and how of an incident and not the 'who' has become second nature. Maintaining confidentiality is foundational for me to establish and earn trust over time, so that we may have increasingly truthful conversations, getting further into root causes, which leads us to further identifying areas to improve health, safety and well-being within your organizations.
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Respect for Confidentiality
Earned trust over time
Increasingly truthful conversations
Root causes revealed and addressed
Increased health, safety and well-being
Professionalism
To me, professionalism requires a consistent and demonstrable embodiment of integrity; a practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. Professionalism also requires doing what you say you are going to do; to make action of your stated intentions.
Being Forthright
It can be difficult to say what you are thinking about a situation while also taking proper care of emotions in oneself and others. But at the end of the day, this is where my best value to your organization lies. Often, I have the ability to say what those embedded in your organization feel they cannot say. I take great care and responsibility with this position and do the personal development work and utilize tools such as non-violent communication to navigate difficult conversations without shying away from them.
Books That Inspire
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Simon Sinek)
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The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Dr. Atul Gawande)
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Sheri Fink)
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Dr. Marshall Rosenberg)
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik)