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IMPACT! Fostering Community. Elevating Learning. Embracing Purpose.
The Community of Human and Organizational Learning’s 30th Annual Learning Conference!

From June 10th to 14th, our gathering at the stunning Hilton Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, NV, promises three immersive days packed with insights, innovation, and collaboration. Dive into an array of complimentary workshops on Monday, kickstarting an enriching week, and explore paid workshops on Friday for a deeper dive into specialized topics.

Join us in this milestone – 30 years – as we delve into the realms of human and organizational learning, fostering connections and paving the way for transformative ideas.

This year, our conference theme is IMPACT! Fostering Community. Elevating Learning. Embracing Purpose. But, what exactly does this mean?
Community: Forge connections that transcend the conference, building a network of support and inspiration that lasts a lifetime. This is a safe space where you can openly discuss successes and failures, surrounded by a community of educated and engaged individuals.
Learning: Prepare to expand your horizons and revolutionize your approach to learning. We’ll explore cutting-edge organizational, resilience, and safety models. Discover different ways organizations are harnessing learning to drive meaningful change and gain insights that will revolutionize your approach to knowledge transfer.
Purpose: Our purpose is clear: facilitating opportunities for people to take their organizational and personal impact to new heights.
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Humble Inquiry in Practice Workshop
Tuesday June 17, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Monte Vista (Breakout #5)- Garden Level: 1st Floor
As safety practitioners and operational leaders, moving from telling to inquiring may be a radical adjustment. It may be uncomfortable. We may have spent our careers telling others what to do and are now being asked to lead with key questions, listen, reflect, learn, and act.
Safety-I came with a culture of “do and tell.” It was individualistic, transactional, and task oriented. Yet we know that telling closes people down, implies the other person doesn’t already know what is being told (i.e., they ought to know), can cut off the sharing of important information, and limits relationship building.
Safety-II is about building trust and relationships.

Being curious and asking in a humble manner is a core activity of relationship building and collective sense-making. “Being humble enquirers helps us see with more clarity, abandoning the certainty that comes with believing we have all the answers.” Schein

Humble inquiry is the:
Art of drawing someone out, asking questions you don’t already know the answers to, and building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in another person.
Attitude that includes listening more deeply to how others respond to our inquiry, responding appropriately, and revealing more of ourselves in the relationship-building process.
In this interactive workshop, we will explore how to apply the concepts of humble inquiry to event learning, learning from work as done, sensemaking, and more. We will practice humble inquiry with “Yes and…” improvisation exercise. Reference Humble Inquiry, Edgar Schein, Peter Schein, 2nd Edition, 2021
Conference Presenters
avatar for elizabeth lay

elizabeth lay

Director consulting solutions, Forge works
Beth’s expertise is in applying Resilience Engineering, High Reliability Organizing, Safety II, and Human and Organizational Performance.Beth advised NASA on "engineering" to increase resilience of International Space Station operations support. She is currently co-leading a rewrite... Read More →
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David Provan

CEO, Forge Works
David understands how to lead organizational-wide strategy and change – to improve safety outcomes, having advised boards in energy, oil, gas, rail and construction for 15 years. Today, an international thought leader in safety management, David started out as a graduate safety... Read More →
Tuesday June 17, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Monte Vista (Breakout #5)- Garden Level: 1st Floor
  4-Hour Workshop, Pre Conference AM

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