2025 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 31st Annual Conference

Brent Sutton is the founder of Learning Teams Inc and the author of "The Practice of Learning Teams", the whitepaper "Learning From Everyday Work" and the new book "4D's for HOP and Learning Teams".

Brent works in partnership with organizations in the commercial, government and education sector providing practical advice to address health and safety risks and develop strategies to drive improvements in organizational learning. Brent is well regarded as a safety coach and for taking organizations' on a learning journey to understand how workers are seen as the solution, how to engage people and leverage their skills so that worker participation becomes a new way of running an organization, where everybody benefits without replacing your existing health and safety system.

Brent is the project architect for New Zealand's most significant Court Ordered Project Order granted under the Health and Safety At Work Act, which is to develop, train and implement a Learning Teams framework for the maritime industry.

https://www.maritimelearningteams.org.nz

Brent is the lead author of the Best Selling Safety Books on Amazon:

The Practice of Learning Teams: Learning and improving safety, quality and operational excellence, with a foreword by Dr Todd Conklin: Released August 2020 (ISBN: 9798665374321 - Sutton, McCarthy and Robinson).

Learning from Everyday Work: New View of Safety Discussion White-Paper: Released November 2021 (ISBN: 979-8487526328 - Sutton, Lyth, Robinson and Conklin).

4Ds for HOP and Learning Teams: A practical how-to guide to facilitate learning from everyday work, critical and dynamic risks with the 4Ds: Released June 2023 (ISBN: 979-8358020726 - Sutton, Lyth, Robinson, Bryant and Conklin)

Brent is a host of the podcast series (Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio):

The Practice of Learning Teams
New View Safety Snapshot
HOP Into Action

https://www.learningteamspodcast.com

Brent lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and actively advocates for doing safety when both workers and the organization learn and improve.