Cascades is a leader in green manufacturing, recycling, and energy production throughout North America and Europe. • Created and implemented strategy, resources and management systems for a diverse group of 25 manufacturing plants, with direct oversight for eight. Provided practical safety, risk and workers’ compensation solutions to specialty products plants manufacturing a range of innovative paper, plastic and packaging materials. • Achieved a 57% reduction in the injury frequency rate by collaborating with onsite management teams to identify risk, implement/validate controls, develop proactive teams, and build a strategic and engaging organizational culture. • Strengthened the capabilities of management and production team members through active coaching, mentoring, and improvement of learning systems. This increased their safety, risk control and disability management skills, as well as their ability to lead and power to influence. • Guided each plant in developing their safety systems in alignment with the corporate vision and requirements by advising plant leadership on program development, technical safety and health topics, risk auditing, regulatory compliance, and strategic planning. • Planned and led an annual multi-day strategic health and safety conference attended by senior leadership, managers and employees from across North America.

The state’s leading news publishing and online media corporation.• Reduced lost time by 88% and lowered incurred costs by administering an award-winning workers compensation management program which streamlined employee health care. The success of this program was based on early intervention, diligent medical management, and collaborative return-to-work planning. This included supervision of an onsite physical therapy clinic. • Reduced injury frequency rates by 30% through the coordination of safety, insurance, workers compensation, and environmental management programming. Collaborated with department directors to help them better understand and control their risk and expense, and provided performance management and customized services to improve operations. • Improved employee engagement and controlled operational risk through the facilitation of two production safety teams.

ERS was a start-up LLC that successfully developed an innovative risk assessment project for the commercial outdoor recreation guiding industry. • Designed and developed an innovative risk assessment tool to promote safety standards, evaluate risk exposure, control liability, and prevent accidents in the high-risk whitewater rafting industry.

SUPERVALU is a national leader in providing grocery products wholesale and logistics solutions. • Successfully initiated risk programming from the ground-up at multiple, self-insured distribution centers. • Rapidly reduced incurred costs by 70% and injury rates by 50% by implementing safety, risk control and disability management programming. • Enhanced teamwork, collaboration, and the overall organizational culture by administering a comprehensive diversity and communications training program.