People First. Safety Always – Rebuilding Culture From the Inside Out
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Friday, October 2, 2026
Changing Safety Culture - One Nudge at a Time
ABOUT THE SESSION:
This session challenges leaders to rethink how leadership behaviors directly shape culture, engagement, and safety outcomes. Using a powerful personal story of resilience, the speaker connects human-centered leadership to real-world performance, emphasizing that world-class safety is not achieved through rules and programs alone, but through trust, connection, and how leaders show up for their people every day. Drawing on principles championed by leaders, the session highlights the responsibility leaders have to see employees as people first and to create environments where individuals feel valued, heard, and empowered to speak up.
Participants will explore the critical leadership shifts required to move from compliance to commitment, including the transition from control to connection, blame to capacity, and managing outputs to developing people. Through reflection and interactive engagement, leaders are encouraged to examine the experience of being led by them and to identify concrete actions they can take to strengthen psychological safety, resilience, and care within their organizations. The session leaves attendees with a clear call to action: lead in a way that unlocks human potential, builds trust, and delivers sustainable safety and operational excellence from the inside out.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Mickey Hannum, CSP, CPEA, CPSA
McWane LLC & Optimized Safety Solutions LLC
Mickey Hannum is a globally respected safety and culture leader, and author of People First. Safety Always. Rebuilding Culture from the Inside Out. He works with organizations across high-risk industries to build world-class cultures where people feel valued, empowered, and safe. Drawing on decades of experience in operations, leadership coaching, and incident learning, Mickey helps leaders move beyond compliance to create sustainable performance through trust, care, and human-centered leadership.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Understand how leadership behaviors directly shape culture and safety outcomes.
- Recognize the shift from compliance-based safety to people-centered leadership.
- Identify specific, actionable leadership practices leaders can apply immediately.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This session is designed for leaders who influence people, culture, and risk, whether or not “safety” is in their job title. Executive leaders, operations and manufacturing leaders, supervisors, frontline leaders, Human Resources, continuous improvement, quality, and Reliability leaders could benefit from the session. All members are encouraged to attend this interesting session!
LOCATION:
CSAM Office - 1447 Waverley Street
TIME:
7:30 am Registration Opens
8:00-9:00 am - Session
9:00 am - Close
FEES:
IPAM Members - No Charge
Non-Members - $45.00/person
Students - $25.00
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Non-Member Registrations – Cancellations received at least 72 hours (3 days) prior to the event date are accepted without charge. If cancellation is not received by the specified time frame the non-member fee of $45.00 is applicable. Substitutions are welcome.
If the non-member joins IPAM within a month of this meeting, the $45 fee will be applied to the cost of membership.
