Rey Gonzalez - President, HOPE Consulting llc

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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 40 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 executive women and is known for challenging the status quo to get the best out of your greatest asset, people. She saw executive 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 and CEO of Altitude Business Coaching, Sandy will help you build a culture of belonging and mutual respect between men and women in the workplace. Sandy spent 2019 traveling the country and speaking at Women in Energy and Nuclear conferences to educate women on how to lead authentically, with emotional intelligence and resilience. She also facilitated workshops and group coaching for Women @ IBM and Microsoft. In March 2020, she attended her first live international speaking engagement in Bali, Indonesia at the Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Conference (WLEC) and returned in March 2021 (virtually from Bangkok) as a speaker, moderator and part of the scientific planning committee. In May 2021, she plans to return to the live stage as a speaker at the Thought Leadership Summit in Denver.

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, Performance Improvement, Program and Project Management. She was fortunate to travel with her family throughout the U.S. assigned to many signature projects: including Chief of Staff, Homeland Security Technology Program at Nevada Test Site training first responders, Assistant Project Manager on Extended Power Uprate project at St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant in Florida, and most recently, Program Manger destroying chemical weapons at Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado for the Department of Defense.

In the Community

Sandy is a graduate from Johns Hopkins University with an MBA in International Business. She is chair for the Colorado Springs Regional Action Committee for the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, chair and Advisory Board member for 4Word, a community for Christian women in the workplace and Tomorrow People Organization. She is a speaker coach for TedX and runs a mastermind group for aspiring TedX speakers. Sandy resides in Colorado Springs with her husband of 24 years, Michael and their three teenage children.

 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. 

Tony has written, "Risk-Based Thinking" a comprehensive guide for management to consider when managing and leading in High Reliability Organizations (available on Amazon here:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/113830249X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 ). Highly recommended by HOPE Consulting LLC.

Mr. Weatherby is a safety systems professional with over 35 years experience designing safety programs for the nuclear, transportation, manufacturing, and resort industries. He specializes in human performance, cause analysis, event investigation, and six-sigma applications. He is the former National Co-Chair for the Department of Energy's Human Performance Task Team, and has worked in the nuclear / energy industry for 20+ years. He has been an adjunct professor for human performance and accident investigation at the University of Idaho, a featured speaker at several national conferences, including Human Performance Root Cause and Trending (HPRCT) and others. He holds a Bachelors (BS) from Minnesota State University, and a Masters (MS) from the University of Idaho. His academic focus areas are Industrial Safety and Organizational Behavior/Systems Engineering. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and is an active skier, hunter, and fisherman.  

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.

VP of Engineering and Projects for the International Operations for a precious materials mining company operating in 14 countries. Responsible for achieving a step change in the engineering and projects performance of capital projects (creation of new capability or overhauling existing assets) by establishing the Requisite Specifications and then develop/implement training and auditing processes to ensure compliance to these Specifications:

Provide operational and technical support to sites in deployment of asset management strategies/tactics and improve production and cost performance.

Support major capital projects to assist with site progress through commissioning of plant and equipment capability, particularly where projects are identified as falling behind schedule or running into technical/commercial difficulty; and

Promote the consistent use of technical standards to ensure quality in both the project delivery and the designs of plant and equipment, ensuring project teams are technically competent to apply such standards in an appropriate manner.

Provide corporate oversight/execution of the Asset Integrity Program and the associated three year capital plans for the operating assets.