About the Guest
Dr. Tom Krause is a preeminent thought leader on organizational culture, safety leadership, and executive decision-making. With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, he founded Behavioral Science Technology (BST) in 1979, eventually conducting over 2,300 consulting projects across 60 countries. Most notably, following the Columbia space shuttle tragedy, NASA selected Dr. Krause to design and lead their safety culture change initiative, personally coaching the agency’s top leaders. In January 2026, he transitioned to the role of Chairman of Krause Bell Group, where he focuses on the prevention of Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF) and the "Safety Loop" framework. He is the author of six books, including Leading with Safety and 7 Insights into Safety Leadership.
Tom's philosophy:
Safety shouldn't be treated as a compliance tax. The same leadership failures that lead to industrial accidents are the ones that lead to financial and strategic ruin. A safe company is ultimately a better-run, more profitable company.
Key Takeaways:
🚀 The NASA Blueprint & Normalized Deviance
Discover what coaching elite astronauts and aerospace engineers taught Tom about “normalized deviance” following the Columbia disaster, and how a team of experts can convince themselves that a critical warning sign is actually normal.
🧠 The Psychology of the Boardroom
Explore how cognitive biases, groupthink, and the dangerous confidence that comes from years of financial success create massive “blind spots” for catastrophic risk in executive decision-making.
📉 The SIF Paradigm vs. “Lazy” Metrics
Understand why traditional safety metrics like the Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) are “lazy” indicators. Learn why an organization can celebrate low injury rates on Monday but suffer a catastrophic fatality on Tuesday, and how to properly identify “SIF-potential” events.
🏗️ Beyond Behavior-Based Safety (BBS)
Move past the outdated model of simply observing what a worker did to analyzing the environment and context that caused that behavior. Learn the dangers of blaming a worker’s unsafe act while ignoring the organizational pressures that made it inevitable.
🤖 AI & The Future of Safety Leadership
As AI and predictive analytics take over industrial risk management, examine whether this creates a new form of “automation bias” where leaders hide behind data, or if human safety leadership will become even more critical.
📩 Contact & Resources
Website: www.krausebellgroup.com
LinkedIn: Tom Krause
Books: Leading with Safety and 7 Insights Into Safety Leadership
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