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Have Kevin Burns Speak At Your Next Event

Worldwide bestselling author and founder of the PeopleWork Supervisor Academy. A speaker/facilitator for nearly 30 years, he brings a perspective no one else is sharing.

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Worldwide Amazon bestselling author

#4 Top Workplace Safety Book

25+ years working with industrial supervisors

Client companies across North America

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Most safety programs fix everything except the source. Kevin Burns has spent 25+ years working directly with industrial supervisors, and he's watched the same mistake play out at company after company: take the best technical performer, promote them to supervisor, hand them zero people-skills training, and hope the leadership part figures itself out.

He calls this a “Hope Promotion” — and he'll show your audience exactly how it's driving the safety incidents, turnover, and disengagement numbers they're trying to fix everywhere except the source.

Kevin is the founder of PeopleWork Supervisor Academy and the author of PeopleWork: The Human Touch in Workplace Safety and The CareFull Supervisor.

WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE WALKS AWAY WITH


A new way to diagnose why their safety numbers aren't moving

 A name for a problem they've felt but couldn't put into words

 One concrete move to make with their own supervisors this week

TOPICS

1

The Hope
Promotion Problem

Why most safety incidents trace back to a supervisor promotion years earlier — not a failure on the day it happened.

2

Compliance
Isn't Culture

Why safety training doesn't create a team that actually looks out for each other. That requires a CareFull Supervisor. 

3

The Supervisor
Nobody Trained

What happens when you take your best employee and make them responsible for people — with no skills development?

4

Care as a Strategic
Leadership Skill

Why people-skills and care are actually the highest-leverage, most strategic skills a supervisor can build.

5

What Supervisors Taught Me About Safety

Patterns and hard-won lessons from working with over 1,000 frontline supervisors across all industries.

6

Why Your Safety Program Isn't Working

The one person needed to carry out and champion safety with employees doesn't have the skills to do it.

FEES & BOOKING OPTIONS

  Kevin's choice of topic Custom for your event
Virtual Events $2,500 (best value) $7,500
In-Person Events $7,500 $10,000

Virtual: delivered live via Zoom or Teams live — no recordings. Kevin handles all slides, images, graphics, text, and audio from his end. All you need is a screen everyone can see and a mic/camera connection so Kevin can see the room (a laptop usually works). Simple setup, no heavy logistics.

In-person:  available Friday–Sunday, in Canada's Toronto–Montreal–Ottawa corridor only. Most trips are same-day. Kevin covers his own travel. If overnight accommodation is needed, you handle it directly. No expense/reimbursement process.

For 30 years I've been in some type of management position and have seen myself in a lot of the segments discussed in this program. But now I have new tools and techniques to get better results.

- Steve Tucker

The message, the steps, the method of delivery, the professionalism, and charisma. This is the whole package.

- Kim Grant

To Book Kevin, Why Use a Form Instead of a Calendar?

Kevin's calendar shows Friday–Sunday as fully blocked and also marks some weekday time as busy when it's actually movable. Speaking events fall outside his normal daily calendar and are not listed on it.

So instead, use this short form to inquire.

Kevin reviews each request personally and replies with real availability - usually within 24 hours. 

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