Senior Client Executives

Senior Vice President
Jim Spigener advises senior leaders around the globe on how to leverage their roles to dramatically improve safety performance. In addition to his expertise in leadership and safety change initiatives, Jim is a highly sought-after speaker in the world of workplace safety, delivering speeches to numerous audiences every year.

Vice President
James Grant has designed and supported a number of comprehensive, multi-year solutions for clients across a number of industries, including transportation, cement, and energy. These initiatives have resulted in the development of national and multi-national safety strategies, as well as the achievement of zero-injury cultures.

Vice President
Kristen Bell designs and leads strategic initiatives that reduce fatalities and injuries, strengthen safety culture, and improve overall organizational effectiveness. With BST since 1993, Kristen partners with senior leadership teams and other key stakeholders in order to bring custom-fit solutions that produce measurable results in challenging and complex situations.

Vice President, EMEA
Martin Dean has over 20 years of safety management experience in 40+ countries assessing organisations' culture, enabling and sustaining systems. Martin acts as a key advisor to several safety professionals within the EMEA region. He also manages BST’s consultants in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, ensuring the alignment and quality of BST’s deliveries in these regions.

Vice President
Tim Hoover is a Six Sigma-certified safety leader with more than 20 years of operations and construction management experience in the chemical industry. Tim also has more than 10 years of experience in designing and supporting new and ongoing safety improvement initiatives, working in a wide range of industries throughout the world.

Vice President
Rebecca Timmins is an expert in leadership development. She designs and delivers individualized coaching, working one-on-one with senior leaders and decision makers at site and corporate levels to support organizational safety culture initiatives. A combination of behavioral pinpointing and behavioral analysis form the foundation for her coaching practice, recognizing that the relationships leaders cultivate form the context within which influence is leveraged.

Vice President, EMEA
Teg Matthews is an experienced safety consultant who has worked with hundreds of government and private sector organizations from a wide range of industries to help them assess, appraise, and analyze their existing situations, and to design and implement changes and solutions that help them achieve a step-change in performance.

Vice President
Glenn Downer is a consultant and coach whose passion for leadership and organizational development, at all levels, has helped his clients strengthen their safety cultures,  ultimately improving their safety performance. Two of Glenn’s strengths are his ability to help clients challenge current thinking and expand their vision of what’s possible, and to guide them to strategies, tactics and technologies that sustainably meet both their short and long-term goals.

Vice President
Debbie Hartung leads large, multi-faceted global client programs to customize performance improvement initiatives, and also provides individual and group coaching to organizational leaders. She specializes in working closely with clients to develop customized solutions that involve employees at all levels in addressing the needs of the organization.

Vice President
Dennis Jackson works with senior executives, leadership teams, and other key client leaders to help them create a vision for their organization's future.  By identifying the barriers to achieving their goals and developing actionable plans for removing those obstacles, he helps guide them to their desired results.

Vice President, Implementation Management
Steven Luttrull uses his extensive experience to assess clients’ organizational cultures and safety climates and to design and implement behavior-based safety processes, leadership development systems, and leadership coaching strategies. He has helped both public and private sector clients achieve demonstrable improvements in their organizational culture and safety performance.

Vice President
Craig Hathaway is an executive coach and consultant who designs and executes safety performance and other culture-change initiatives.  He is an expert in analyzing opportunities and threats within a client's existing business practices and culture, and identifying the appropriate tools, processes, and people needed for the initiative.

Vice President
Ken Jones is a veteran of the safety industry, working with senior leaders globally to design and implement successful culture change strategies. He is an accomplished leadership coach and educator who has developed, implemented, and coordinated processes and programs at all organizational levels. Ken works extensively in North and South America, Africa, Europe and has supported clients in Asia. He is fully fluent in French and Spanish.

Vice President
Don works with senior executives and executive management teams to develop and implement strategic solutions to improve safety operations and to eliminate fatalities. He is an accomplished executive coach who provides personal development and safety leadership training at every level, from the frontlines to the C-suite.

Vice President, Implementation Management
Jennie McKelvey is an accomplished senior leadership coach and the director of behavior-based safety and leadership program implementations for large clients in the mining, petroleum, railroad, and utility industries. Drawing on her operations business experience, she collaborates with national and multi-national clients in assessing their needs and to design and execute complex, multi-location interventions.

Vice President, Implementation Management
A Project Manager at heart, Mike Smith brings over 15 years of change management and large scale, international program management experience to BST. He combines his experience with consulting team leadership to support clients in achieving and exceeding their implementation goals.