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Conferences

• Community of Human and Organizational Learning Conference (CHOLearning Conference; formerly: Human Performance, Root Cause, and Trending Conference/Workshop)

Webinars

Virtual Workshop (quarterly)

2026:
What Were They Thinking?! Cognitive Biases in Human Error and Decision Making – Part 2
What Were They Thinking?! Cognitive Biases in Human Error and Decision Making
Why “Common Sense” Isn’t Common: Cognitive Bias and Decision-Making
Why We Don’t See the Things That Hurt Us
The Risk You Don’t See: Visual Literacy and Hazard Identification
Behind the Scenes: The Challenge of Root Cause Analysis in a Non-Safety Industry
How One Leader Built Root Cause Analysis from Scratch at a 6,000-Person Tech Company

CHOLearning Webinar Series (monthly)

Nov 2025: Mastering Effective Communication Skills: Listen, Ask, Clarify, Understand, Connect
Oct 2025: Avoiding HOP Deployment Errors
Sep 2025: Integrating HOP Principles with Incident Analysis
Aug 2025: Beyond Hazards: Integrating HOP and Human Factors into Risk Assessment
Jul 2025: Sprinkling and Nudging Towards HOP Integration
Apr 2025: How can Safety Professionals 10x organizational learning?
Mar 2025: Adventures in Safety
Feb 2025: Cmon people now… – Cross-boundary coordination as a source of adaptive capacity
Jan 2025: A practical approach to HOP

Nov 2024: Storytelling Tools for Increased Learning
Oct 2024: From Burnout to Brilliance
Sep 2024: Breaking the Forgetting Curve
Aug 2024: Systems Learning for Human and Organizational Performance
Jul 2024: The Leaders Edge: Strategies for Closing the Performance Gap with Deeper Dialogue
May 2024: My CEO Says I’m Supposed to Use AI. Now What?
Apr 2024: Accountability and Blame: Breaking up For Good
Mar 2024: The Role of HOP in a Holistic Reliability Engineering System
Feb 2024: A Case Study: How to Integrate HOP so Leaders lead and employees engage.
Jan 2024: Avoiding HOP Deployment Errors

Oct 2023: Strategies for Sustainable HOP Implementation: Why scalability and sustainability are essential for success
Sep 2023: On the Use and Abuse of Culture Assessments in Organizational Life
Aug 2023: Spreadsheets or Stories: What REALLY creates culture?
Jul 2023: Book: FIT – The Simple Science of Achieving Strategic Goals
May 2023: Developed Not Demanded – A Conference Preview
Apr 2023: Making Your Ideas Real
Mar 2023: Encode, Experience, Enculturate
Feb 2023: Hazards of the Context: Representation of Complexity
Jan 2023: High Stakes Leadership

Dec 2022: A ConferencePreview
Nov 2022: Understanding and Addressing Our Human Tendency to Know So Little About So Much
Oct 2022: Creating context for safety behavior
Sep 2022: EVA 23: Lessons Learned from a NASA Spacewalking Close Call
Sep 2022: How to Make Human Performance Tools Used and Useful
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Apr 2022: The First Independently Audited Collaborative High Reliability ™™ Qualification and Certification Program
Mar 2022: The Logical, Measured Way To Collaborative High Reliability and Just Culture
Feb 2022: Add Predictive Analytics to Your Safety Management System
Jan 2022: Trial & Learning

Community Fireside Chats

2026:
What Safety Leaders Can Learn from the Front Line (And Even Killer Whales)
Ready for an adventure?
The Day the Internet Blinked
Switching Industries with HOP: What Practitioners Learn Along the Way
Inside the Circle: Thought Leadership, Connection, and What’s Ahead

MicroLessons: Complex Work. Real Talk.

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Awards

CHOLearning Distinguished Service Award:

2026:
Dawn Wurst (Safety & Health Director, Koch Industries, USA)

CHOLearning Fellow Award:

2026:
Robert Bartholomew (Safety Representative Joint Lead Team-Mill Operator, Arconic, USA)

CHOLearning Visionary Vanguard Award: (disc.)

2025:
Mark Alston (Managing Director, Investigations Differently, Australia)

2024:
Georgina Pool (/Co-Founder & Director, Event Learning Australia, Australia)

CHOLearning Applied Excellence in Learning Award: (disc.)

2025:
David Provan (Founder & CEO, Forge Works, Australia) | Nathaniel Bougoure (Director, Forge Works, Australia)

2024:
Andy Barker, CEO, OrgTreeMe, Scotland

CHOLearning Hall of Fame Award:

2026:
Joe Estey (Senior Performance Improvement Specialist, Lucas Engineering and Management Services, USA)

2025:
Shane Bush (Co-founder, BushCo HPI, USA)
Robert (Bob) Nelms (Founder (retired), Failsafe Network, USA)
Dick Swanson (President/Owner, Performance Management Initiatives, USA)

2024:
Mike Blevins (Principal, BTX Consulting, USA)
Rob Fisher (President, Fisher Improvement Technologies, USA)
Jack Martin (Vice-President & Co-Owner, BackPacker Jack, USA) | HPRCT founding president
Todd Conklin (Human & Organization Performance Consultant and former Senior Advisor for Organizational and Safety, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Tony Muschara (Principal Consultant and Owner, Muschara Error Management Consulting, USA)