Aviation Safety Culture Workshop
This award-winning synchronous workshop was delivered to a national audience of 150 aviation safety directors in 2024, designed to drive engagement and strategic alignment in a high-stakes environment.
Structured as a dynamic three-hour session, the workshop balanced 50% expert-led content with 50% collaborative group work, culminating in team report-outs to reinforce learning and cross-functional insight.
Executed by a presentation team of three, the experience featured a custom slide deck with live interactive surveys and printed participant workbooks containing simulated data sets for hands-on analysis. Across three sessions, the workshop earned an average of 4.8/5 satisfaction scores.
Below are select excerpts showcasing the workshop’s design, delivery, and measurable impact.
Workshop title slide introducing the topics and presenters for the 2024 conference.
The agenda is designed where Part I and Part II take 45 minutes, Parts III and IV take 45 minutes each, and each break is 15 minutes. Each part becomes increasingly audience driven and less presenter focused.
This slide bridges the workshop’s core theme—aviation safety culture—with participants’ daily lives and current events. By highlighting real-world consequences of safety culture breakdowns, it invites reflection on personal experiences and news stories, making the topic immediately relevant and impactful.
This research-informed framework, based on the Cooper Model and its derivatives, helps participants reflect on their organization’s current safety culture maturity—without needing to share aloud. By privately acknowledging where they are on the ladder, participants can better understand their starting point and begin considering realistic, strategic next steps tailored to their context. This approach ensures the workshop is grounded in best practices while respecting individual and organizational privacy.
This interactive Slido poll allowed participants to anonymously share which methods their organizations use to measure safety culture. By displaying the collective responses in real time, the slide provided a transparent, survey-style snapshot of the room—helping everyone see common practices, gaps, and opportunities for growth across the group.
This slide introduces a collaborative group exercise that all participants can access in their printed workbooks. The activity encourages team-based brainstorming and discussion, setting the stage for shared insights and report-outs later in the session.
This is an except from the participant workbook that aligns with the Activity 2 directions slide.