Rey Gonzalez

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Rey Gonzalez has spent most his professional life working to improve safety, efficiency and profitability through the enhancement of human performance. 

Rey has done so with a keen focus on improving coaching and mentoring as well as helping management and workers understand how to use the Human Performance Tools in a manner to most effectively minimize their potential for making mistakes on the job, as well as in helping supervisors and managers become excellent coaches and role models of desired behaviors. Rey helps management understand their role and responsibilities with providing a strong organization with effective defenses in place to minimize mistakes and eliminate undesirable events.

Rey is a power plant professional with 39 years of diversified technical and organizational experience in the areas of operations, training, quality assurance, work management, Organizational Effectiveness and Human Performance (HU). Rey is also an  Associate Fellow for the University of North Texas Health and Sciences Center, Institute for Patient Safety mentoring the Medical Staff and Students in Human Performance and related aspects for Patient Safety.

Of note are Rey's contributions in his development of (1) Coaching to Enhance Performance®, an approach to coaching that has received tremendous results (and rave reviews for its effectiveness) within the US commercial nuclear and non-nuclear electrical industries; (2) Trigger Training™ which is a first of its kind training in human error reduction; and (3) Executive level mentoring to enhance leader behaviors and coaching skills for culture transformation in performance and safety improvement.

Sandy has a passion for helping business leaders and owners and is known for challenging the status quo to get the best out of your greatest asset, people. She focused her entire career on process improvement, strategic planning, innovation, leadership development and human performance to ensure that her projects came to a successful and more importantly, safe completion. She saw business coaching as the perfect opportunity for her to give back the expertise and operational insights she learned in corporate America while affording her the opportunity to spend more time blending family and wellness into her life. As owner of Altitude Business Coaching, Sandy will help you to focus on the areas of time, team, money and strategy needed to inspire you and your business to reach new heights. 

In the Corporate World - Sandy had a long career, spanning 27 years with Bechtel Corporation in several business lines, across numerous functions including Cost and Schedule Management, Marketing and Strategy, Contract Management, Acquisitions, Program and Project Management. She was fortunate to travel with her family throughout the U.S. assigned to many signature projects: including Homeland Security Technology Program at Nevada Test Site training first responders, an Extended Power Uprate project at St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant in Florida, and most recently, destroying chemical weapons at Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado for the Department of Defense as part of the international treaty administered by OPCW. 

In the Community - Sandy is a graduate from Johns Hopkins University with an MBA in International Business and completed her undergraduate studies at Western Illinois University with a Bachelor of Business in Economics. She loves to volunteer her time in the community and in her church. She has a passion for helping children in need and her family has been sponsoring Victor, who lives in Burkina Faso, through Compassion International since 2014. She is a member of the Colorado Springs Regional Action Committee for Women’s Foundation of Colorado, was recently elected as Vice President of Membership for Toastmasters International (Downtown chapter) and is a facilitator and consultant for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Colorado Springs.

  Steve has spent much of his professional career understanding that leaders get work performed through the efforts of others. As such, Steve believes in and practices the art of effective coaching and mentoring as the primary means of instilling the standards and expectations necessary to ensure that others complete work activities safely and as expected. 

Joe has 33 years in the commercial nuclear industry with a keen focus on plant operations and operations training. Joe's specialties include, but are not limited to; human performance analysis, coaching, delivery of training in various dynamic settings and development of training. Certified with the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations as an Instructor. 

 Tony specializes in human error management, a risk-based approach to managing human risk. Tony has served on nuclear industry working groups associated with human performance (Electric Power Research Institute - EPRI and Nuclear Energy Institute – NEI), and he has presented papers at several industry meetings including several IEEE conferences on human factors and power plants. 

Bobby has more than 37 years of experience in commercial generation including nuclear, natural gas and fossil fuels. His focus for most of those years was engaging others to recognize and achieve industry standards of excellence.  Bobby's efforts concentrate on helping all levels of the organization to internalize past operating experience, improve human performance skills, coach leadership behaviors and understand behavior-based methods of improvement. This led to reduced accident and human performance rates at several commercial generation power plants. Bobby has also worked in several corporate oversight positions through which he provided consultation, assessment and guidance to several organizations across the United States.