Jack Jackson

Intense. Primal. Effective. These are all words that have been used to describe traditional bootcamp. And with good reason—bootcamp is designed to reprogram a person’s bad habits. This immersive storyteller’s bootcamp will prepare participants for combat against ineffective safety training. Since the topic of safety is typically dry or boring, many safety professionals and trainers struggle to keep their sessions fresh, engaging and memorable. Storytelling is so much more than just telling a story. A good storyteller can take the underlying message of the story and make listeners have a meaningful connection with the story. The reason that better engagement is obtained through storytelling is that people are hardwired to think in narrative terms. If storytelling is done correctly, it can have lasting effects over time which makes stories a useful teaching tool—a link of cause and effect is exactly how people reason. Participants will be whipped into shape, taking away actionable tips to sharpen their craft and become more powerful and authentic trainers

Jack used to be ten feet tall and bulletproof. But time has passed and Jack’s learned from experience that overconfidence is a dangerous form of complacency—a human factor that takes many shapes. Many individuals learn from a young age that there is an acceptable amount of risk they can take on, and that as long as they are “safe enough,” nothing bad will happen. This attitude leads to deliberate risk-taking, and those deliberate risks become habitual errors. Given enough time, those bad habits will turn into injuries or worse, no matter how invincible a person feels. Jack will demonstrate for participants how to reset the bulletproof mindset through storytelling, habit building and analyzing close calls. Engaging participants in activities based on his perspective from having presented the original version of this session to safety audiences for over a decade, Jack will reveal how overconfidence returns in unexpected ways and provides techniques on how to stay safe by keeping complacency away.