Our Advisory Board

Professor Sidney Dekker

Prof. Sidney Dekker Griffith University.

Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is a Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and a Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents and won worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work in human factors and safety. He coined the term ‘Safety Differently’ in 2012, which has since turned into a global movement for change. It encourages organisations to declutter their bureaucracy and provide people freedom-in-a-frame to make things go well—and to offer compassion, restoration and learning when they don’t.

Sidney is a bestselling author of, most recently: Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; Patient Safety; Compliance Capitalism and Do Safety Differently.

He has co-directed the documentaries ‘Safety Differently,’ 2017; ‘Just Culture,’ 2018, ’The Complexity of Failure,’ 2018; and ‘Doing Safety Differently,' 2019. Stanford has ranked Sidney among the world’s top 2% most influential scientists: his work has well over to 16500 citations and an h-index of 56.

Rosa Antonia Carrillo

As a dedicated champion of promoting safety, wellbeing and inclusion in the workplace, Rosa Carrillo has devoted her career to coaching, teaching and developing leaders. She has helped companies transform their safety performance for over 25 years in oil and gas, pharmaceutical, nuclear, mining, manufacturing and power generation in multiple countries.

At the core of her new book, The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership, are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that the wellbeing of employees is important while getting extraordinary business results. She explains how to create and recover important stakeholder relationships by taking action based on these beliefs. Edgar H. Schein, author of Organizational Culture and Leadership and the Humble Leadership Series commented that her book should be required reading for all leaders concerned with safety.

Rosa graduated from Pepperdine University with a Masters in Organisational Development. Subsequently she served as adjunct faculty at the Presidential Key Executive MBA Program for Pepperdine, and began her own practice.

Professor Michael Behm

Michael Behm is a professor of Occupational Safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Coordinator of the Working Commission on Safety and Health in Construction at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, in the Netherlands.  He holds a PhD in Public Health from Oregon State University.  Mike has been a Certified Safety Professional since 1995.  He was a safety and health professional for 10 years with Lenox China and Saint-Gobain Corporation.  Mike serves on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention through Design (PtD) Councils.  He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore focusing on safe design aspects of urban greenery systems, and a Visiting Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.  Mike’s philosophy on work is that each person has a significant role in arranging the conditions where they and their workmates can be successful.

Dr. Sue Ieraci

Sue Ieraci is a specialist Emergency Physician who spent 35 years working in public hospitals before taking up a new role in Telemedicine. As well as her clinical role, Sue has been involved in Emergency Department management as well as health system consultancy, policy-making roles and medical regulation. Over the years, she has been asked to review Emergency Departments across the country, giving advice on culture and process improvement and holding problem-solving workshops to assist colleagues in structuring and implementing positive change.

Since leaving her long-term hospital role, Sue has focussed on understanding the multiple factors that contribute to poor workplace culture, including risk aversion and blame-shifting. She sees her engagement with the principles and talent of Art of Work as a pathway to improving the complex set of factors that lead to frustration and burnout, both in Health Services and throughout the world of work.

Kym Bancroft

Kym is a passionate and future-state-focused executive health and safety leader, holding a Master’s in Safety Leadership from Griffith University, Master’s in Applied Psychology (Organisational) and a Graduate Diploma in OHS from Murdoch University.

Over the past 25 years, Kym has amassed significant experience working in safety leadership roles across a diverse range of industries, cultures and geographical locations, including open-cut mining in Canada, through to offshore gas in the US, and a raft of sectors across the Asia Pacific. Kym’s more recent roles have included the Head of Safety, Environment and Wellbeing for Serco Asia Pacific and the Head of Health and Safety at Queensland Urban Utilities, where she successfully led an ambitious safety cultural transformation across the business.

In the last twelve months, Kym has been working as the WHS Queensland Electrical Safety Office and Workers Compensation Regulator in Queensland. As the Deputy Director-General of the Office of Industrial Relations, Kym focused on improving safety, health, productivity and fairness in Queensland workplaces.