Our Advisory Board
Professor Sidney Dekker
Prof. Sidney Dekker Griffith University.
Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he runs the Safety Science Innovation Lab. He is also Professor (Hon.) of psychology at The University of Queensland, and Professor (Hon.) of human factors and patient safety at Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. Previously, he was Professor of human factors and system safety at Lund University in Sweden. After becoming full professor, he learned to fly the Boeing 737, working part-time as an airline pilot out of Copenhagen. He has won worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work in human factors and safety, and is best-selling author of, most recently, The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ (2014), Second Victim (2013), Just Culture (2012), Drift into Failure (2011), and Patient Safety (2011). His latest book is Safety Differently (2015). More at sidneydekker.com
Professor Michael Behm
Michael Behm is a professor of Occupational Safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Coordinator of the Working Commission on Safety and Health in Construction at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Public Health from Oregon State University. Mike has been a Certified Safety Professional since 1995. He was a safety and health professional for 10 years with Lenox China and Saint-Gobain Corporation. Mike serves on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention through Design (PtD) Councils. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore focusing on safe design aspects of urban greenery systems, and a Visiting Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Mike’s philosophy on work is that each person has a significant role in arranging the conditions where they and their workmates can be successful.
Jono Brent
Jono Brent has been operating within New Zealand’s infrastructure industry for the past two decades. He has been the Chief Executive of Connetics Ltd, a multi-disciplinary electrical distribution contractor since December 2010. At Connetics, Jono has been driving the adoption of the Safety Differently principles and has adapted these across all aspects of the company’s leadership and operational performance. Using these principles, in 2018, Connetics was awarded a New Zealand health and safety award for the ‘Best Initiative to improve worker engagement’. Outside of Connetics, Jono holds board positions as Chair of College House and a director of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union. He is also a steering group member of the New Zealand Business Leaders Health and Safety Forum – a forum that is made up of over 300 business leaders focused on improving the nation’s safety performance.
Rosa Antonia Carrillo
As a dedicated champion of promoting safety, wellbeing and inclusion in the workplace, Rosa Carrillo has devoted her career to coaching, teaching and developing leaders. She has helped companies transform their safety performance for over 25 years in oil and gas, pharmaceutical, nuclear, mining, manufacturing and power generation in multiple countries.
At the core of her new book, The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership, are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that the wellbeing of employees is important while getting extraordinary business results. She explains how to create and recover important stakeholder relationships by taking action based on these beliefs. Edgar H. Schein, author of Organizational Culture and Leadership and the Humble Leadership Series commented that her book should be required reading for all leaders concerned with safety.
Rosa graduated from Pepperdine University with a Masters in Organisational Development. Subsequently she served as adjunct faculty at the Presidential Key Executive MBA Program for Pepperdine, and began her own practice.