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Have Kevin Burns On Your Show

A worldwide Amazon bestselling author with 25+ years of experience working with industrial supervisors — ready to talk about safety culture, frontline leadership, and why companies are solving the wrong problem.

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Worldwide Amazon bestselling author

#4 Top Workplace Safety Book

25+ years working with industrial supervisors

Client companies across North America

kev-burns-podcast-600Kevin Burns has spent 25+ years working directly with industrial operations, watching the same mistake play out: a company takes its best technical performer, promotes them to supervisor, hands them zero people-skills training, and hopes the leadership part figures itself out.

Kevin calls this a “Hope Promotion” — and he can show your audience exactly how it's quietly driving safety incidents, turnover, and disengagement numbers a company is 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.

VOCABULARY KEVIN USES ON-AIR

1

Hope
Promotion

Promoting your best worker to supervisor and just hoping the people skills show up.

2

CareFull
Supervisor

The fix — a supervisor who treats care as a leadership skill, not a soft trait.

3

The
16/84

Kevin's frame for the companies that act on this now vs. the ones waiting to see proof first.

EPISODE ANGLES

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.

Sample Questions

  • What's a “Hope Promotion,” and how do you spot one? Or, more importantly, fix one?
  • Why does safety culture get treated as a compliance problem instead of a people-skills problem?
  • Across multiple industries — what's the one thing every one gets wrong about supervisors?
  • What are the three things that frontline supervisors need to care about most?
  • What's the real cost when a company skips supervisor development?
  • What's a moment from your 25+ years that changed how you think about safety?

WHAT LISTENERS WALK 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

LOGISTICS

Kevin will be a remote guest only. He will join your podcast live from his dedicated studio setup. Kevin is very comfortable with both video and audio podcast formats.

 

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