Speaking in Missouri and on the road

Keynotes, coaching, and mentoring. Pick the one that fits.

A keynote is for a room. Coaching is monthly help for one leader. Mentoring is six months with one rising leader. Don't buy a keynote when what you really need is a mentor.

Safety leadership

Talks based on the books

Each book comes with one keynote and one hands-on working session. Pick the title that fits the problem your people are facing. One talk per hour, 45 to 60 minutes, built around a real story from the floor. No wellness hour. No DEI keynote.

Zero Harm Is a Hazard

Keynote: why a zero-injury number that improves as people go quiet is hiding problems, not measuring safety.

Working session: we take apart one zero-injury prize or target your organization still uses and look at what it really rewards.

When Safety Fails at the Top

Keynote: the leadership patterns behind well-known public cases, including Gree, Upper Big Branch, Midnight Rider, La Porte, and the 737 MAX. Public record only.

Working session: the kickoff for a twelve-week leadership group, built around one closed public case. Your own company's incidents stay off the slides.

The SSIM Nexus

Keynote: the six areas the model measures, why the office and the floor see safety differently, and why blending them into one score is a lie.

Working session: your group scores one site from memory, office view and floor view side by side. A first look at the method, not the $22,500 pilot.

No License to Lead

Keynote: written for a room of supervisors, not safety professionals.

Working session: take one real job and name who can stop it and who restarts it. If your supervisors need ongoing practice more than a speech, pair it with the Five Hours on the Floor series.

Safe on Purpose

Keynote: communication and authority at every level, built on five parts: intent, authority, voice, translation, and learning.

Working session: walk one live job using the Purpose Stack. If nobody owns the restart after a stop, we bring in the Who Takes the Call material.

The Principles

Keynote: the problem with leadership that only works in a conference room.

Working session: the first two hours of Five Hours on the Floor, or we pick three of the 21 practices for one crew.

The Ways of Safety: The Complete Operating System

Keynote: why so many safety management systems fall apart on an ordinary Tuesday.

Working session: a walk-through of the fourteen locked run sheets and the short site addendum that covers the local rules. We review them; we don't rewrite them in the room.

EHS Concepts: The Ways of Safety

Keynote: Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) in plain terms, without the slogans.

Working session: we go through your last ten near misses and find the one control that should have caught the error and didn't.

Integrated Safety Excellence

Keynote: using lean methods to hold safety up when budget cuts come around.

Working session: hierarchy of controls on one live job, not on a poster.

The fee is the same whichever title you pick. If you want a second talk the same day, that's the half-day or full-day option.

Off the job site

Talks from the two books for men

These two talks aren't safety talks. They come from my books for men: the voice in your own head, and the hard feedback from people who expect more of you. Same plain talk as the field books.

The Council of Betters: Out Vote the Voice that Hates You

For the voice that still wins at one in the morning. You pick a few better voices, give each one a vote, and stop letting your worst hour name you. Built on a field manual, not a pep talk.

The book on Amazon

The Bully I Needed: A Necessary Ass-Kicking

For the man who left the room mad because a leader wouldn't take his first draft. How to tell a builder who pushes you from a tyrant who needs you small, and what to do in the hour after you storm out.

The book on Amazon

Ask about format and fee for these two talks when you send your request.

Who the talks are for

The groups named are examples of the kind of room, not a list of past events.

Ryan L. Rinehart

About Ryan

I'm Ryan L. Rinehart, a Navy veteran and the founder of EHS Concepts. I wrote the books, I put the systems they describe in place, and I coach and mentor the people who have to run them on an ordinary Tuesday. Every talk is built around a real story from the floor.

  • Navy veteran
  • M.Ed.
  • Authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer, General Industry and Construction
  • Author of the safety books and the two books for men on the Books page

Policy sets the standard, and the program keeps it funded. But practice, what people actually do on the job, is what stops the next injury. That's where I spend my time.

Speaking fees

Keynote

From $6,500

45 to 60 minutes. A good fit for a corporate safety day, contractor kickoff, utility stand-down, or regional conference. Books available at the back table.

Keynote + floor walk

From $9,500

The keynote plus a 90-minute walk of your site, built around four questions. Office and floor are never averaged together. This is not the 90-day pilot.

Half day

From $9,500

Keynote plus a hands-on workshop for up to 40 people, built on the Purpose Stack or the Voice Ladder.

Full day

From $12,500

One talk plus two hands-on working sessions, with supervisors and senior leadership in the same building.

Virtual keynote

From $3,500

Forty-five minutes. Live. No pre-record unless quoted.

Safety stand-down within driving distance

From $4,500

For sites within a same-day drive of Springfield–Branson.

Deposit 50% to hold the date. Date released if the deposit is not in ten days. I do not speak for a boxed lunch and a plaque.

Coaching and mentoring

Executive coaching

For COOs, CROs, and VPs of Operations. A monthly retainer with two sessions a month and one site walk each quarter. Priced by quote.

Supervisor and EHS leader coaching

Monthly coaching, one problem per session, on site or by live video. Priced by quote.

Six-month mentoring for one rising leader

From $4,500

Six months with one up-and-coming leader. We start with a site walk or video call, then meet twice a month, with a check-in score at the midpoint and a written wrap-up at the end. Mostly remote; an on-site kickoff is quoted as travel.

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