What’s your vision of a safety leader? If you were to complete the statement, “I believe a leader is …”, what would it say? More to the point, How do we know we’re leading safety culture in the best way? As safety leaders, we have to inspire confidence, passion and commitment around a safety culture. A big part of that is ensuring those around us actually view us as legitimate leaders. Building your “leadership presence” will go a long way toward that is the case.
Eric Svendsen, Ph.D., is Principal and lead change agent for safetyBUILT-IN, a safety-leadership learning and development organization. He has over 20 years experience in creating and executing outcomes-based leadership development and culture change initiatives aligned to organizational goals, and he personally led the safety-culture initiatives of a number of client organizations that resulted in “best ever safety performance” years for those companies.
What’s your vision of a safety leader? If you were to complete the statement, “I believe a leader is …”, what would it say? More to the point, How do we know we’re leading safety culture in the best way? As safety leaders, we have to inspire confidence, passion and commitment around a safety culture. A big part of that is ensuring those around us actually view us as legitimate leaders. Building your “leadership presence” will go a long way toward that is the case. 
