Paul Krismer

Presentation Description & Topics

Paul is an Employee Engagement expert.  He is a proud member of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. He is the founder and CEO of the Happiness Experts Company. His best selling book, “Whole Person Happiness” gives everyone access to his expertise.

Within a workers’ compensation system, Paul excelled in multi-faceted senior management roles. Early in his career, he spearheaded a total reform of underwriting systems at WorksafeBC, resulting in the creation of a pricing model that directly reflects safety outcomes. Paul has led groups of more than 200 professional disability management staff. As an Executive Account Manager and team lead, Paul served as a consultant to high risk and high claims volume employers and industries, introducing innovative and powerful interventions. Paul presently runs his own training and consulting company allowing his expertise to shine through his practical and inspiring work!

Positive Safety Cultures: The Serious Business of Emotional Context

Get a blast of personal and corporate well-being in this inspirational introduction to the science of positive psychology. Learn the research results that prove positive emotions lead to greater safety and environmental compliance, reduced absenteeism, and increased corporate citizenship. If your company knows “what to do” but too often fails to do it, you will come away with brand new insights about how to change a complacent safety culture. Attain simple, applicable skill that will fuel your personal ability to lead and create positive contagion amongst the people you influence.

This keynote talk is great at any time, but it has had tremendous success as an opener for any conference. It lifts the energy of the audience, both in the moment and for days afterward.

Being a Safety Superstar: Integrity First

Many senior leaders, front-line supervisors, safety officers, and union representatives come to their roles as a function of their expertise in a specific subject matter, but leadership requires much more than job-specific skills. This talk de-emphasizes what we individually know and instead asks us who we are.

Find out how corporate cultures are open to positive change. Leverage positive psychology to bring creativity, reduced disability, and superior safety outcomes in your workplace. Men and women who influence the behaviour of staff can learn a mindset that shifts them from overseers of business processes to genuine leaders—seeing the big picture, articulating the direction, and embracing their team in a collaborative and committed mission. Transformative organizational change occurs when leaders are coaches who operate with emotional intelligence and profound personal integrity. Safety really can be “Job One”!

Distraction is Deadly!

Automate Laser Focus in your Workplace Practical tools exist that allow people to automatically become more mindful of the activity that they are engaged in.  By contrast, when workers are thinking about anything other than the task at hand, their risk of injury increases exponentially.  Following decades of research, this talk shares practical interventions that can foster greater engagement with the present moment.

Why the heck is everyone talking about mindfulness these days? The reason is that mindfulness is as important for your brain as exercise and nutrition are for your body. This presentation takes the mystery out of mindfulness. Grounded in science, sprinkled with playfulness, and served as a practical invitation, we learn what all the excitement is about!

When mindfulness is seamlessly woven into safety systems, break through injury performance is possible. Workers do NOT need to sit in lotus position in order to benefit from mindfulness cues.  Learn how we can all have improved cognitive skills, including stronger and longer task focus.