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Boost Safety Through Better Communication H&S Forum
Join us for a high-energy, 3-hour workshop built for construction leaders and safety pros who want to level up their active listening and negotiation skills. This isn’t a lecture—it’s an interactive, game-ified training where you’ll work in small teams, tackle timed challenges, and create your own job aids rooted in real-world construction safety and leadership experience.

You’ll learn proven frameworks for emotional communication, active listening, and trust-building that drive engagement, improve hazard communication, and inspire compliance in safety programs. Walk away with practical tools, a copy of Life or Death Listening by Dan, and the confidence to handle tough conversations with clarity and collaboration. Pre- and post-course videos ensure the learning sticks long after you leave.

Topics include:

How humans decide (and how to influence them)

Emotional communication strategies for safety messaging

Empathy, trust, and active listening techniques

Why “No” can be the start of collaboration

Clarity tools for navigating risky environments

Be ready to participate—because in this workshop, you’re the star.

BIO:

About the Speaker – Dan Oblinger
Dan Oblinger is a veteran hostage negotiation commander turned best-selling author, international keynote speaker, and the leading consultant to the construction industry on active listening, emotional communications, and negotiation. With two decades in law enforcement, including serving as a hostage negotiations commander for a major metropolitan police agency, Dan knows how high-stakes conversations shape outcomes.

Since 2008, he’s brought the principles of leadership, active listening, and negotiation into boardrooms, job sites, and safety meetings—helping leaders build trust, drive compliance, and foster authentic connections. As President of Oblinger & Tsang, he designs internal negotiation programs for consulting engineering firms, coaches executives, and leads the Negotiation Tribe, an online community for negotiation practitioners.

Dan has authored three books, contributed to numerous trade publications, and is a frequent podcast guest worldwide. His mission: to equip leaders to listen with intention, communicate with empathy, and forge agreements that strengthen teams and cultures.

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