“Cathedral thinking” is a leadership approach grounding systems-based methods in building structures, trust, language, controls, governance and learning through methods that outlast individual leaders. In safety, it means creating conditions where risk surfaces earlier and easier, work can be paused without fear, and life-critical safeguards hold under operational pressure. Results matter, and so does endurance. Our goal isn’t heroic performance; it’s durable protection so our safety systems continue to prevent serious injuries and fatalities long after today’s leaders are gone.
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Speakers
Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM; Director of EHS; Avetta
At Avetta – the leading provider of supply chain risk management software – Scott is a highly collaborative, strategic thinker and operator with 19 years of progressive leadership in the realm of risk/occupational safety. With an “inside-out” perspective as a safety professional in nontraditional employment settings, he sees tremendous opportunity for systems improvements that can work together to reliably create and maintain safer work environments. Working to align people, teams and industry resources for safety within the joint-employer community, Scott devotes much of his time to developing safety leadership across organizations, with a targeted emphasis on systems improvements to address the most critical type of risk far too easily overlooked: serious injury or fatality, or SIF.
Scott serves as director at-large for the executive board of the American Society of Safety Professionals and is an active member of the ANSI Z-10 Committee for Safety Management Systems. He passionately believes that helping people and organizations grow in safety leadership benefits and transforms our society.
Paul Leonard
Paul Leonard, proud Irishman and chemical engineer, has been fortunate to have lived and worked in many countries. He had 26 years of operations experience with Dow in Germany, France, China and the United States before finding his true passion as a global environmental, health and safety leader. In 2012, he joined Arkema in Paris as vice president of EHS. In 2019, he joined the executive committee of Orbia in Mexico City and led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, he joined Entergy as vice president of enterprise safety, bringing his experience to the world of utilities. He currently consults through SinoCelt LLC, where he counts Avetta, dss+ and disruptinc.io among his clients.
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Moderator
Kevin Druley, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine
Kevin is associate editor of Safety+Health and serves as co-host of the magazine’s “On the Safe Side” podcast.
