I’ve Stood Where Your Crews Stand
Journeyman lineman. U.S. Marine. Safety speaker with 23 years in the field. I teach crews to go home safe, because I know what it costs when they don't.
The work before the words
I'm not a consultant who read about this work. I lived it.
Twenty-three years in the field. A journeyman lineman. A United States Marine before that. I've climbed the poles. I've run the crews. I've made the calls with weather coming in and a job that had to get done. I've trained apprentices, and I've learned the lessons that some mistakes only give you one chance to learn.
When I talk to your crews, they know within the first minute that I've stood where they stand.
The turning point
On October 19, 2015, a routine job on an energized line nearly cost me my life. Same kind of line I'd worked a hundred times. That's exactly where it got me. Rushing, complacency, and trusting an assumption instead of checking it.
I'll spare you the details. What matters is what I walked away knowing. The incident didn't start with the voltage. It started earlier, in the shortcuts nobody named and the assumptions nobody checked. I'd felt that drift for years. I just never called it out loud.
That's the idea I now build everything around. You can't fix what you won't name.
The mission
Every worker deserves to go home safe. Every one.
Not because a policy says so. Because someone is waiting for them at the end of the shift.
I do this work to close the gap between what crews know and what they do when they're tired, rushed, and sure they've done it a thousand times. I challenge complacency. I strengthen how crews communicate. And I help leaders build cultures where people actually look out for each other, not because they're told to, but because it's who they've become.
That's the standard. Raise it, and make it home.
The frameworks I built
Everything I learned, I turned into tools your crews can use. Not theory. Field-tested frameworks that work on a real job site.
AAA. Ask, Adapt, Act. Question the assumption, adjust to what's actually in front of you, then move with purpose.
ESCAPE. A plan for the emergency you hope never comes, before you ever need it.
Name It. The habit underneath all of it. Say the risk out loud, and you've already started to solve it.