Our work innovates at the intersection of safety, team dynamics, resilience, and system design.
Rethinking resilience:
from recovery to proactive adaptation
Resilience isn’t just about bouncing back—it’s about staying ahead. Instead of a reactive approach that focuses on recovery after setbacks, true resilience is dynamic and adaptive. It’s the ability to anticipate, absorb, and proactively adjust to challenges before they escalate into failures.
In this model, individuals and systems don’t just withstand pressure; they evolve, expand, and strengthen in response to it. Resilience isn’t about survival—it’s about transformation. By continuously learning and integrating new strategies, we don’t just return to baseline—we emerge stronger, smarter, and more adaptable, elevating both capability and safety.
Safety-II: Beyond Human Error
Traditional safety models stop at human error, but Safety-II looks deeper. Instead of blaming individuals, we focus on how systems can detect, adapt, and recover from inevitable variability. By designing for resilience, we move beyond preventing failure—we build safety into the system itself.
The Deep Dive: News And Publications
Crew resource management (CRM) is the bedrock of human factors and aviation safety and has evolved alongside the needs of the industry. TEM was a great idea for its era — now, what is our era’s great idea for the next generation of CRM?
This paper makes the case for infusing training with deeper academic rigor, while offering a cautionary tale about not being so focused on details that the bigger picture is forgotten. This is a call to action for subject matter experts to co-design what we’re calling Adaptive Dynamics for Resilient Systems (ADRS) — a framework for the next chapter in human factors training. Read More Here!