COAA Webinar: From Daily Planning to Predictable Outcomes: Using AI to Strengthen Leadership, Culture, and Project Performance
Zoom
Event Details
The most important conversations on a jobsite happen before the work begins, during daily planning. These moments set the tone for safety, coordination, and execution. Yet for most organizations, they remain largely invisible, leaving leaders without a clear understanding of what’s really driving performance in the field.
This session explores how AI is changing that. By capturing and analyzing patterns in daily planning conversations, organizations can gain new visibility into how decisions are made, where risks are introduced, and what separates high-performing teams from the rest. The result isn’t more data…it’s actionable insight that connects frontline behaviors to measurable project outcomes.
We’ll look at how this approach helps uncover hidden risks, reduce variability, and reinforce the leadership behaviors that lead to safer, more predictable execution. Attendees will walk away with a practical understanding of how to turn everyday field dialogue into a strategic advantage across projects.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:
- Discover how AI, NLP, and predictive analytics transform field safety data into measures of engagement and operational capability.
- Learn how leaders can detect under-reporting, variability, and emerging risk through real-time conversational patterns.
- See how AI-enabled bench-marking can be used to identify high-performing leadership behaviors and replicate them at scale.
- Explore how natural-language insights and role-specific learning tools drive improved safety performance.
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Meet the Presenters
Chris Henderson is a seasoned leader with more than 29 years of experience in facility management, MEP operations, health and safety, and project management across diverse industries. As Vice President of EHS at QTS Data Centers, he leads initiatives that advance employee well-being and operational excellence. He views health and safety as the foundation of successful operations and develops programs that integrate safety into every decision and process, turning risk awareness into a driver of stronger performance.
Barry Nelson, CEO and President of FactorLab, is a visionary leader with more than 25 years at the intersection of workplace safety, data science, and technology, with a focus on improving organizational performance in complex, high-risk environments. He led the development and adoption of SmartTagIt, an AI-enabled safety indicator application used more than four million times across hundreds of enterprises. His work advances predictive analytics and proactive risk mitigation, enabling organizations to move from reactive management to data-informed performance leadership while helping customers earn top industry honors including the IRMI Gary Bird Horizon Award, AGC Safety Leader of the Year, and ABC National Excellence in Construction.