United States Safety Consultant

Phil La Duke has a proven track record in leading and guiding performance improvement interventions aimed at corporate change. He uses Safety as a driver to effect real cultural change. LaDuke’s methods result in amazing Safety improvements, but also remarkable improvements in Cost Reduction, Quality & Process Improvement, Employee Morale and Engagement. Throughout his career Mr. LaDuke has worked with C+level executives crafting and executing major corporate culture change strategies many of which targeted improvements in safety.

WCG Clinical—Equity Partner/Senior Consultant

●Represent the community as a voting member on 14 Industrial Reveiw Boards that oversea recombinant DNA Research.

Environmental Resources Management–Equity Partner/Senior Consultant

●Secured a $15 million five-year Safety Improvement and training project in my first 90 days. By developing, implementing, evaluating, and leading a massive talent development program for a global energy company.

●Designed and developed a corporate culture change intervention to improve Safety for a global Automotive Tier-one supplier, that resulted in a 40% drop in injury severity in the first year and reduced Worker’s Compensation costs by 65%. Developed a Hazard Tracking Database

●Conceived, designed, developed, and facilitated a vision-setting seminar for a global Leadership

●Provided Production Safety Consulting to two major studios on feature films and TV programs..

●Conducted mental health and resiliency interviews with oil transport vessels in Rotterdam, Houston, and London, for Shell Oil.

●Partner In Charge EH&S Regulatory Compliance Audits NBC, Production Safety Support NBC 30 Rock managed a document control project and regulatory training, for a major television network

●Conducted executive-level leadership engagement sessions for major manufacturers, oil & gas, and the entertainment industries. Provided contract trainers to NBC News on less than 24-hour notice

●Designed and facilitated a vision-setting training for a Freeport McMoran Safety Leadership Summit

●Designed and developed an evaluative tool which he used to assess the culture and the level of risk to worker safety associated with how a major industrial product’s business-to-business performed under normal operating conditions.

●Member of ERM’s Performance-Focused Audit teams for safety interventions. ERM’s advanced auditing activities were designed to create a compelling case for leaders to act decisively to change the status quo.

●Performed Performance-focused safety audits for Shell at the Albion Oil Sands mining and refining operation.

Self-Employed, MI - Founder and CEO

●Designed and developed a values-driven culture initiative for a biomedical start up.

●Production Safety Consultant to Paramount Studio

Trinity Health, Livonia, MI - Talent Development Manager, Unified Revenue Organization

●Developed the URO Corporate University, a multi-disciplinary curriculum for all URO employees. Identified and procured courses for the education and training in ICD-10 for over 10,000 employees. Developed competency maps for over 80,000 direct employees and thousands of medical doctors brought the first implementation of tablet and smart-phone training to Trinity Health through gamification of training

●Coached executives to identify learning paths and talent development strategic needs

●Certified as a Just Culture practitioner and provided courses to all health system’s senior leadership including at Loyola and Johns Hopkins

O/E Learning, Troy, MI - Director, Process Improvement

●One of the principal architects of the UAW-DaimlerChrysler safety improvement process, Bringing Excellence to Safety Teams (B.E.S.T.) that saved DaimlerChrysler over $155 million in annual costs associated with worker injuries.

●Led the development of O/E’s proprietary safety improvement system, SafetyIMPACT! in seven States and three countries and saved the companies an average of over $12 million in less than two years.

ASC Incorporated, Southgate, MI - Global Director, Organization Development and Training

●Lead AD HOC Strategy teams in the design and development of ASC’s 5-Phase Project Management Process that helped turn around ASC’s failing bottom line and designed a multi-course curriculum that was implemented enterprise-wide.Coached the executive team in the development of ASC's cultural transformation from an entrepreneurship to a professionally managed company.

●Developed ASC's problem-solving methodology and associated training. Led continuous improvement/Kaizen events. Reduced scrape lost by $10 million in less than 60 days and secured an additional $60 million in additional business from the vendor.

●Modernized and managed the Training and OD departments. Designed and built a corporate university with a curriculum of over 175 classes. Developed and managed development strategies for ASC’s Asian and European operations.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

●I KNOW MY SHOES ARE UNTIED, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MARRIAH PUBLISHING 2019

●LONE GUNMAN: REWRITING THE HANDBOOK ON WORKFORCE VIOLENCE PREVENTION MARRIAH PUBLISHING 2019

●BLOOD IN MY POCKET IS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS MARRIAH PUBLISHING 2020

●STOP. DON’T SHOOT PREPARING FOR, PREVENTING, AND SURVIVING MASS SHOOTINGS AND RAMPAGE ATTACKS Marriah PUBLISHING 2022

●ONE PERCENT SAFER contributor (an 'anthology of the world's best thought leaders”)

ARTICLES ELIGIBLE FOR CITATION IN SCHOLARLY AND SCIENTIFIC WORKS:

I have been a frequent podcast quest and interviewee including such notable outlets as:

●Authority Magazine (862 articles)

●Thrive Global (685 articles)

●Entrepreneur Magazine (90 Articles)

●Industrial Safety & Hygiene News (38 Articles)

●Facility Safety Management (14 articles)

●HSI (18 Articles)

●HSME Magazine (18 Articles)

●FABRICATING & METALWORKING MAGAZINE (63 Articles)

●Health + Safety (2 articles)

●OSH Today (4 articles) Australia

●HR Pulse Journal

●Workers’ Compensation Institute (5 articles)

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN, MI

BACHELORS GENERAL STUDIES—EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN, MI

STATE OF MICHIGAN CERTIFICATE—TRAINING DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN

MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE OF ARTS—BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)

CERTIFICATIONS

●High-Impact Learning—Advantage Way

●Instructor, Lean for Leaders Trinity Health

● ICD-10 Bootcamp—AHIMA

●Ethics—Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

●Program Management—General Physics

●Lab Safety—Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

●Basic Institutional Review Board (IRB) Regulations and Review Process—Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

●OSHA 30-hour for General Industry Safety—360training.com

●OSHA 30-hour for Construction Safety—360training.com

●Instructor General Orientation, Train-the-Trainer Chevron Appalachia, Michigan Business Unit

●Instructor, Building A Fair and Just Culture (Train the Trainer)—Outcome Engenuity

●Job Safety Analysis—National Safety Council

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