Meet the Speaker: E. Scott Geller
“I just got lucky that Scott Geller reached out to me asking to join his lab at Virginia Tech.?Little did I know I would study under a guru of safety.?At the time we were researching the basics of what became behavioral safety and Scott started building the People-Based Safety program that impacted thousands upon thousands of workers worldwide.?His influence among safety professionals has been profound as an author of dozens of books and a prolific keynoter.?He’s now taken all that passion and wisdom to impact safety in all walks of life spreading his version of positive humanistic behaviorism with his Actively Caring For People foundation.?With all this renowned he still takes time to mentor (and argue with) this old student and grace us all with frequent visits to our Summit.” —Timothy Ludwig, Summit Founder
About the presentation . . .
This dynamic research-based presentation will elucidate emotional intelligence (EI) as a critical human dynamic that safety leaders need to nurture within themselves as intrapersonal EI and among others as interpersonal EI, in order to optimize occupational health and safety. More specifically, EI determines whether a person’s motivating arousal leads to productive stress or debilitating distress, and whether certain personality dispositions are healthy or unhealthy. The achievement of an injury-free workplace requires empathic and persuasive communication skills (interpersonal EI), as well as self-determinism, personal commitment, self-esteem, and optimism (intrapersonal EI). Attend this keynote address to learn practical ways to promote, support, and maintain a psychologically safe work culture wherein intrapersonal and interpersonal EI can be cultivated for the successful prevention of unintentional injuries and for the continual enhancement of human welfare and life satisfaction.
About our speaker . . .
E. Scott Geller, an Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, has just completed his 54th year as a faculty member and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He is co-founder and Senior Partner of Safety Performance Solutions, Inc., a leading-edge training and consulting organization specializing in behavior-based safety since 1995 (www.safetyperformance.com). He is co-founder of GellerAC4P, a training/consulting firm dedicated to teaching and spreading the Actively Caring for People (AC4P) Movement worldwide (www.gellerac4p.com).?
He has authored, edited or co-authored 52 books, 91 book chapters, 41 training manuals, 276 magazine articles, and more than 300 research articles addressing the development and evaluation of behavior change interventions to improve quality of life on a large scale. His most recent 700-page textbook, with 31 coauthors: Applied Psychology: Actively Caring for People defines Dr. Geller’s research, teaching, and scholarship career at Virginia Tech, which epitomizes the VT logo: Ut Prosim—”That I May Serve”.?
Dr. Geller is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Association of Behavior Analysis International, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality Sciences. He is past Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (1989-1992) and Associate Editor of Environment and Behavior (1982-2017), and current Consulting Editor for Behavior and Social Issues, the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, and the Journal of Safety Research. Dr. Geller has received lifetime achievement awards from the International Organizational Behavior Management Network (in 2008) and the American Psychological Foundation (in 2009). In 2019, the American Psychological Association, Division 25 honored Scott Geller with the Nathan H. Azrin Distinguished Contributions to Applied Behavior Analysis Award.?
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