Across both sides · Speaking and keynotes
Not inspiration that fades by Monday. A shift in how your people see the work.
Keynotes and conference talks from Gareth Lock on human factors, Just Culture and learning from everyday work. Each one aims for a single change in thinking that shows up in the next briefing, debrief and incident review.
Topics
Talks that stay with people.
Every talk is shaped around your audience and event. These are the themes Gareth speaks on most often, drawing on stories from military aviation, accident investigation and other high-risk work.
Why incident investigations fail, and what to do instead
Why reviews keep finding the person nearest the event, and the questions that lead to the conditions behind it.
Human factors and system safety
How performance emerges from people working inside systems, and why "human error" is a starting point rather than an answer.
Just Culture and psychological safety
What leaders do after something goes wrong, and how it shapes what they hear before the next event.
Learning from emergent outcomes
Learning from success as carefully as from failure, and turning lessons identified into lessons learned.
Non-technical skills in high-risk work
Communication, decision-making and leadership under pressure, and why they degrade before technical skills do.
A talk shaped for your event
If your theme isn't listed, tell us about your audience and what you want them to leave with.
Events and audiences
Where Gareth speaks.
Typical events
- Safety and human factors conferences
- Emergency services leadership forums
- Corporate risk and resilience events
- Leadership team away days and offsites
- Professional body and industry events
What organisers can expect
- A conversation beforehand to understand your audience and goals
- A talk built on real stories, with something practical to take away
- Time for questions and discussion with your audience
The speaker
Gareth Lock
Gareth speaks internationally on human factors, Just Culture, psychological safety and learning from both success and failure. His talks draw on 25 years in the Royal Air Force, fatal accident investigations for two national defence forces, and research into how stories shape what organisations learn.
Every talk is built around real stories, because stories carry lessons in a way slides rarely do, and because they are what people remember and retell afterwards.
- Former RAF officer and tactical flight instructorOperational decision-making where errors could not be undone.
- Accident investigatorFatal accident reviews for the UK Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force.
- AuthorUnder Pressure, Learning from Emergent Outcomes and Just Culture in Practice.
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Start with a curious conversation.
Tell us what is happening in your organisation, what you have already tried, and what you would like to be different. We will be honest about whether we can help, and point you elsewhere if someone else would serve you better.
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