Dr. Jake Mazulewicz is a safety keynote speaker and safety leadership consultant who helps leaders in high-hazard industries prevent dangerous and expensive operational mistakes. In his presentations and workshops, Dr. Jake Mazulewicz shows technical teams how to transition from a rigid culture of blame to a resilient, learning-centric operation. He teaches organizations that human errors are not personal failures to be punished, but valuable operational signals that can be analyzed to uncover deeper systemic flaws. By showing organizations why highly capable people sometimes make bad decisions under pressure, Dr. Jake Mazulewicz helps enterprises build psychological safety, foster mutual trust, and design error-tolerant systems where everyone can work reliably and safely.
This practical approach is grounded in Dr. Jake Mazulewicz’s academic training, corporate leadership, and frontline operational experience. Before launching his advisory firm, he spent a decade managing safety and human performance programs in the electric power utility sector, serving as the Human Performance Lead for over 3,600 lineworkers, engineers, and system operators at Dominion Energy. His understanding of operational risk is further backed by his early frontline career as a structural firefighter, an EMT, a wilderness search and rescue field leader, and a military paratrooper. This background, combined with his Ph.D. in Education from the University of Virginia, allows Dr. Jake Mazulewicz to translate complex safety science—such as Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) and Resilience Engineering—into practical habits that technical workforces can apply directly.
To help organizations bridge the gap between safety theory and real-world results, Dr. Jake Mazulewicz equips leaders with tools like his “Scan & Focus” model for situational awareness and military-proven After Action Reviews (AARs). Over the past decade, he has advised and trained more than 250 enterprise teams worldwide, including Energy Safety Canada, BNSF Railway, Chevron, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. As an author and a human performance keynote speaker, Dr. Jake Mazulewicz has written two reference books available on Amazon: Seven Practical Steps: How to Build Reliability, Safety, and Trust in Technical Teams and the HOP Handbook for Leaders.
