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When was the last time you sat beside a child, opened a coloring book, and let the conversation take you somewhere meaningful?
Your decision made at the executive table eventually reaches someone doing the work.
Your organization pays for executive misalignment whether you recognize it or not.
Employees valued. Families’ futures protected. Stronger leadership. Positive Community Relationships.
As an executive, have you taken the time to tell your employees how much you value them? Have you invested in their success?
As an executive team, what do your decisions reveal about your core values? Are you aligned on what matters most?
Companies often call employees "family". Employees learn what those words mean by what happens next. How they're treated from day one.
Before the next safety meeting begins, I want leaders to consider a different question: Who is counting on every employee to ensure their families have a future?
LAP: Listen. Align. Protect. I have a challenge for every executive team: stop assuming you know what employees experience.
Before you ask employees to trust leadership again, ask what leadership has done to earn it.
A company can call its employees its "greatest asset," a member of the "family." But what happens when protecting them requires an investment, a difficult conversation, or a decision that slows production?
Most executive teams struggle with alignment because they fear what they may uncover. The truth can be hard to hear, especially when it challenges what leaders believe is happening throughout their organization.
As a leader, what is missing to make your organization all it can be? Before you look at anyone else, look across the executive table.
He challenges leaders to view every safety decision through the eyes of the families waiting at home.
David A. Ward Sr. reframes safety as a human obligation, emphasizing leadership's role in protecting lives beyond compliance checklists.
Alignment isn't a meeting... it's a commitment to a stronger, safer, and more successful future. One team. One vision. One voice.
Parents, enjoy your children and teach them valuable safety lessons for Home, School, and Play. They're only small once... make some precious memories.
Every child needs their mother to come home... so why do we take chances at work?
Are organizational struggles separate problems, or symptoms of executive misalignment? Before you look down the organization, look across the executive table.
Best of Best Review recognizes David A. Ward Sr. with the Best Humanistic Safety Leadership in the United States of 2026 award for advancing safety as a human responsibility.
The value of an employee's life is priceless, to those that matter. Will your loved one come home today?
How many supervisors truly understand how valuable they are to the success of an organization and to the families of the people whose lives have been entrusted to their leadership?
Leadership choices show up in employee trust, safety, and the future of the business. These presentations challenge leaders to confront the responsibility behind every decision.
The leadership gap did not appear overnight. It has been developing quietly as the workforce changed faster than many organizations changed the way they lead.
Leadership alignment is critical to your business success. If you're not aligned today, how can you expect to lead tomorrow? One question belongs on the executive table: Are we truly aligned as an executive leadership team?
Every company needs to address this question: Without employee trust, how effective can you really be? This starts with executives having the hard conversation about rebuilding trust…
A children's safety coloring book titled Coloring Your Way to Safety: At Home, School, and Play is available now…
Join us for Safe and Sound Week from August 11-17, 2025, where OSHA and the National Safety Council emphasize management leadership, worker engagement, and hazard identification and elimination.…
Professional Safety Speaker/Safety Facilitator, OSHA Outreach Trainer Workplace Safety Solution Professional In my book The Faces of Safety, Chapter 16 I talk about how precious life is and…
Something to really think about…….. In our world today, especially at work, we should always remember that our safety is in our own hands. Don’t depend on management…
The language of safety is like the language of love it’s universal, diverse and affects every company and employee that speaks another language other than English. Protecting your…
The cost of a life …. can anyone put a price tag on an employee’s life? Some companies believe so, as they expose their employees to hazardous conditions…
Parents, Moms, Dads, Grandparents. Aunts, or Uncles do something special for the kids, grandkids, nieces, or nephews in your life, purchase this engaging coloring book today, and share…
Is it the Owner, CEO, middle executives, managers, supervisors, HR, or the Plant Manager? Who has the most to lose? Who’s setting the expectations for safety? Are there…
It’s a question every company large, medium, or small, from one employee to thousands. First, is safety a core value of your company? Take your time before you…
As the CEO, your focus is to increase revenue, profits, production, and the bottom line. However, it’s also your responsibility to protect your employees lives at all costs…
Coloring Your Way to Safety: At Home School and Play Paperback – IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Please share with your connections!! Color your way to fun and…
On this upcoming Veterans Day, take a moment to reflect on all the wonderful privileges we have because of our brave men and women. We should honor our…
Grain bins are very dangerous, and time is of the essence when an employee is trapped. Just think if an employee is in a grain bin and there…
It’s a question that needs to be addressed from every company executive to every employee no matter their position. If safety doesn’t matter, then what in the hell…
Chapter 12: The Lives Affected Everyone is touched when an injury happens at work: the coworker, the family, the community, no one is exempt. Who are the people affected…
I want to encourage every safety professional, executive member, and owners of all companies to take the below listed information and make changes to your current safety programs.…
The below-listed links will show the devastation that preplanning could have reduced the number of injuries and fatalities. The gas release, which happened on Oct. 10, killed two…
It’s a question every company large, medium, or small, from one employee to thousands, must face. First, is safety a core value of your company? Do you have…
Based on the below listed article I’m outraged that he feels he has no responsibility for the death of his employees. As I stated in my previous article…
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