Your Crews Already Know the Rules. This Is About Whether They Follow Them When No One's Watching.
Keynotes, trainings, and consulting for electric utilities, contractors, and high-risk industries. Built from 23 years in the field. Delivered by a journeyman lineman and Marine who has been the one on the ground when things went wrong.
You've run the trainings. You've posted the procedures. You've said it in the tailboard a hundred times. And you still watch good people take shortcuts, stay quiet when something feels off, and trust an assumption instead of checking.
That's not a knowledge problem. Your crews know the rules. It's a culture problem. The gap between what people know and what they do when they're tired, rushed, and sure they've done this a thousand times.
That gap is where people get hurt. Closing it is the work I do.
Keynote
A room, a true story, and a shift in how your people think about risk. I don't give motivational speeches. I take a crew through a real incident, name what actually went wrong, and hand them something they can use on tomorrow's tailboard. Best for safety stand-downs, kickoffs, all-hands, and leadership summits.
Training & Workshops
Hands-on sessions that build real skills. Speaking up. Stop-work authority. Communication that prevents incidents instead of documenting them. Built around the frameworks I teach, AAA and ESCAPE, so your crews leave with tools, not just takeaways. Best for supervisors, foremen, and crews who need to practice, not just listen.
Consulting & Culture Work
Longer engagements for organizations ready to change how they operate, not just how they talk about safety. We build the habits, the language, and the accountability that hold when the audit is over and no one's watching. Best for safety leaders who want culture change that outlasts a single event.
Signature topics
The Power of Challenging Assumptions - Signature Keynote
Most incidents don't start with a broken rule. They start with an assumption nobody questioned.
Lito's signature keynote is built around the day he became the ground that bled 8,000 to 12,000 volts of induction off an OPGW line. He assumed the job was routine. It wasn't. From there he takes crews through why the brain fills the gap with what it expects instead of what's there, how fatigue and time pressure shut down the questions that keep people alive, and how to catch the assumption hiding inside "the line's dead," "the last crew finished," and "we've always done it this way." Using his AAA framework, Ask, Adapt, Act, he gives your people a way to surface hidden assumptions and name their doubt out loud before hands go on the work. It's honest and field-ready, run through real job scenarios and live crew discussion, not theory off a slide.
Format: 60-minute interactive keynote with Q&A. Teams leave able to question what they think they know, run AAA on the tailboard, and make assumption-checking a spoken crew habit. Best for field crews, supervisors, and safety leaders at safety conferences, stand-downs, and leadership summits.
The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Set
Culture isn't what you post on the wall. It's what you walk past.
This is the talk on the Say/Do Gap, the space between what a company says it values and what it actually tolerates on the ground. Lito shows leaders and crews how drift sets in, how a shortcut becomes a habit and a habit becomes the standard, and how the quiet decisions made when no one is watching decide whether a culture holds or erodes. Using a live tower-building demonstration, he makes the cost of walking past standards impossible to unsee, then hands the room the practice that closes the gap: naming the risk out loud before it names you. It moves from normalized drift to stop-work authority to peer accountability, and lands on the one thing that changes everything, permission to speak.
Format: 60-minute interactive keynote workshop with Q&A. Every attendee leaves having named one standard they've been walking past, committed to setting it differently, with a 30-day accountability partner locked in. Best for supervisors, foremen, safety managers, and executives at closing keynotes, leadership sessions, and culture work.
Emergency Action Planning to Increase Survivability
You don't rise to the occasion in an emergency. You fall back on what you prepared.
This talk is built on two days Lito can't forget. His own, when the emergency plan said helicopter, a sixteen-minute flight to the hospital, and in the chaos after his electrocution the plan went unnamed. He was driven fifty-eight minutes by truck instead. Forty-two minutes of care he never got. And a second, watching a crew whose entire plan was "call 911," on a site EMS couldn't reach up a rope in time to save a fallen lineman. From those hard lessons, Lito built ESCAPE: Exercise, Site Conditions, Communication, Access, Position, Egress. Six things a crew walks in the tailboard, out loud, before the work, so the way out exists before anyone needs it. Because emergencies move faster than improvisation, and the plan fails on the detail nobody checked. The locked gate. The address no one knew. The rescue gear buried in the truck.
Format: keynote or hands-on training session. Crews and leaders leave able to build and drill a real emergency action plan with ESCAPE, knowing the plan you build calm is the one that works when it isn't. Best for field crews, supervisors, and safety teams at conferences, stand-downs, and crew trainings.
Trusted by safety-critical teams at PG&E, National Grid, Santee Cooper, LPEA, L.E. Myers, Sturgeon Electric, and Hawkeye.
Book Your Next EventWhat it's like to work with me
No canned speech. No package off a shelf. Before I stand in front of your people, I learn your crews, your site, and the risks you actually carry. Then I build the talk or the training around them, so what your team hears sounds like their job, not a generic safety lecture.
You reach out. Tell me what's going on with your team and what you're up against.
We talk. A short call, no pitch. I ask questions. You tell me the real story.
I build the plan. A keynote, training, or engagement shaped to your crews and your goals.
We make it home. I deliver, and your people leave with something they'll use before their next shift.
A few common questions
Who is this for?
Electric utilities, line contractors, and any high-risk operation where a bad day can cost someone their life. Field crews, supervisors, safety teams, and leadership.
How far will you travel?
National, regional, wherever your crews are.
How big can the audience be?
From a single crew in a yard to a full leadership summit. The story scales. The message doesn't change.
What does it cost?
It depends on the format, the size, and what you're trying to build. Reach out and we'll talk through it honestly on the first call.
What if we're not sure what we need?
Most people aren't at first. Tell me the problem you're seeing and I'll help you figure out the right fit, even if it's not me.
Every Crew Deserves to Go Home. Let’s Build That for Yours.
Tell me what's going on with your team. I read every one of these myself.