Registration opens in January

Please direct any questions to [email protected].

WESTERN  NEW  YORK  SAFETY  CONFERENCE

April 9th, 2025

Same Location as 2024!!!

Seneca One Tower

Buffalo, New York

Our agenda is still under development but we are pleased to announce the following speaker

Keynote – Patrick Nelson

Theme: Humanizing Safety – A roadmap for organization safety through individual empowerment.

Leveraging a battle-tested Safety Leadership strategy that has resulted in a 57% reduction in the TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) for Fortune 500 organizations, Patrick will give your safety and operational leaders a playbook to make safety personal and a driver of workplace excellence.

A little bit about Patrick

As a keynote speaker, trainer, and Fortune 500 consultant, I’ve worked with countless organizations who want to create exceptional servant leaders by inspiring their employees and equipping them to take ownership.

My work is motivated by my personal mission to inspire others and influence the future. It’s a mission born out of my experience as a paratrooper in the US Army, where I led soldiers during three combat deployments and earned a Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart.

During one of my deployments, my failure as a leader led to one of my soldiers being killed in combat, while I was only peppered in the back from shrapnel. This life-changing experience set me on a path to help others not repeat my same mistake.

Transitioning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to working in the NFL I became the inaugural NFL-Pat Tillman Military Scholar and earned a Master’s in Sport Management and after transitioning to a role as a leadership development consultant, earned a second Master’s in Organization Development.

Since then, I’ve facilitated leadership development programs for clients from Fortune 500 companies to small business owners in a variety of industries with the goal of helping them develop exceptional leaders.