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WHO WE ARE
OUR CAUSE
Cultivate safe, resilient, and healthy workplaces that nurture a compassionate and productive society.
OUR MISSION
Foster organizational wisdom to fortify health, well-being and safety.
What We Do
We help the organization know itself, grow, and flourish.
Services
We provide a comprehensive suite of expert consultation services, covering everything from the design and implementation of programs to their monitoring and evaluation.
Our expertise lies in human factors, program evaluation, safety management systems, and organizational culture change.
Impact Labs
Impact labs are one of the cornerstones of our consulting services. Experiential individual and group exercises are designed to foster a collective wisdom among the group igniting self-reflection, reframing, and positive behavioral change among individual members.
Incubator Series
Our Incubator Series are labs designed to equip participants with a set of Key Impact SkillsSM and core competencies in five skill areas. Each skill lab in this series is carefully crafted to build upon the last, fostering a progression from foundational impact skills to advanced influential impact skills and competencies.
Customized take-home practices and between-session exercises provide an incubation period to continuously nurture, hone, and bring to life these Key Impact SkillsSM in ways that expand one’s potential, encourage innovation, and build sustainable personal and organizational growth.
How We Do It
We methodically explore, experiment, and embed disciplined values and competencies.
Program Evaluation
Program evaluation methods and standards are formally embedded into all that we do to ensure high quality intervention designs, and that the products and tools we create get used by intended users with potentially broad scale impacts.
We use The Program Evaluation Standards published by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (2011, Sage) as guiding principles when working with clients, including the five key evaluation standards: utility, feasibility, propriety, accuracy, and accountability.
We also follow the guidelines and methods established by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration’s Manual for Research, Development, & Technology Program and Project Evaluations, and its accompanying Evaluation Implementation Plan.
Mindfulness Task AnalysisSM
Mindfulness task analysis (MTA)SM is a nuanced modification to traditional cognitive task analysis (CTA) methodology to better understand how on-the-job activities can train the mind to improve resilience, cognitive performance, judgment, and safety critical decision-making.
MTASM is a methodology to capture and measure the organization’s emotional culture and its collective wisdom for contextualizing and customizing the design of system-wide interventions and practices to improve safety, health, and well-being in the workplace.
Key Impact SkillsSM
Non-technical skills, often referred to as “soft skills” or “people skills”, are some of the most critical skills an organization can cultivate. Key Impact SkillsSM are those foundational non-technical skills that can lead to impactful outcomes, both individual and organizational.
These Key Impact SkillsSM include five key areas:
1) Self-Awareness
2) Relationship Building
3) Team Building
4) Systems Thinking
5) Societal Relations
Mindfulness-Based Risk Reduction®
Our MBRR® process is an overarching evaluative framework that integrates mindful organizing, mindfulness-based training, and mindful practices into existing organization structures and systems, such as safety management systems (SMS), to reduce the risks associated with the frequency and severity of harm, including both physical and emotional harm.
MBRR® combines well-tested program evaluation theories and methods with the neuroscience research and evidence-based practices of mindfulness to design and implement effective interventions that promote and strengthen a culture of safety, health, and well-being.
“I have been privileged to observe how [Mike’s] exceptional blend of human factors expertise and rigorous evaluation methods profoundly reshaped safety culture and safety management systems across the U.S. railroad industry. His leadership was crucial in driving significant policy reforms…[and] the enduring impact of these initiatives continues to shape the FRA’s approach to evolving and refining safety culture within the industry.”
THOMAS G. RASLEAR, PH.D. (RETIRED)
FORMER CHIEF
HUMAN FACTORS DIVISION
OFFICE OF Research, Development, and Technology
“TrueSafety EvaluationSM has been an extraordinary and valuable partner for my organization in a long-term USDOT project. Their insight and contributions, which improved both project process and outcomes, have benefitted my organization, but more importantly our Federal partner…I look forward to finding opportunities that will allow my organization to continue our partnership with TSE.”
LISA STAES
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
“TrueSafety EvaluationSM has supported ENSCO in providing planning, technology evaluation and program management services since 2019. With a focus on the keys to a program’s success and an emphasis on stakeholder engagement, TrueSafety Evaluation brought instant value to our team with a wide range of expertise that was drawn upon to address a variety of program needs.”
ENSCO Team
“I have had the privilege of working with Mike Coplen for two decades. His insight and expertise have contributed significantly to the safety of our industry and the well-being of the workforce. His laser focus on safety has generalized to every mode and through his commitment and caring attitude the industry is safer, the workforce is stronger and more resilient.”
KAREN E. PHILBRICK, PHD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
“Michael [Coplen]’s skills as a team builder are truly remarkable; he curated an influential panel that enabled us to form a strategic partnership with the American Psychological Association for the Workplace Health & Safety Conference. In a short time, the outcomes of our collaboration have been substantial and enduring, with his insights continuing to shape and improve our strategic approach and useful practices.”
HOLLY DUCKWORTH
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AMERICAN MINDFULNESS ASSOCIATION
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