Trust is down. Serious incidents and fatalities are up. Engagement is down.
Mental health and related illnesses are up. Psychological safety is down.
Average reduction in incidents for companies who consistently recognize their people.
Percentage of the safety profession that has more than 20 years of experience.
Percentage of the global workforce made up of Millennials and Gen Z by 2030.
Our Research Drives Strategy
At Kunz Company, we set out on a journey to understand what attributes the highest performing safety and health professionals possess. What differentiates them from the pack? 300 interviews (and counting) later, with some of the top performers in our space, we have some answers. Stay connected as we continue building out one of the largest and most comprehensive qualitative research studies the safety and health profession has seen on leadership. Seeking to answer: What's needed from us now and moving forward to write a better future for the worker? A future that sends every worker home BETTER than they came.The future of safety and health is in our hands. Will you help us write it?
ABOUT
Jason Kunz
KEYNOTE SPEAKER | SENIOR CONSULTANT | FOUNDER AND CEO
Jason Kunz is a keynote speaker, coach, and trusted advisor to organizations committed to reducing serious injury and fatality (SIF) risk, elevating leadership capability, and improving operational performance. He is the founder of The Kunz Company LLC, where he helps leaders move beyond traditional compliance-based safety and toward modern, high-trust, learning-focused approaches that support safe, effective work.
Jason was recently honored by the National Safety Council as a 2025 Rising Star of Safety, recognizing his contributions to advancing serious injury and fatality prevention, modernizing safety leadership, and supporting worker engagement across high-hazard industries.
Before launching his speaking and advisory business, Jason spent more than a decade at the 3M Company in technical, sales, and leadership roles, partnering across global manufacturing, industrial, and commercial environments. Over the course of his career, he has delivered keynotes, workshops, and leadership sessions for more than 20,000 people across 36 countries, spanning construction, manufacturing, energy, insurance, food and beverage, and other high-hazard sectors.
Jason is a co-author and contributing architect of the new ASTM standards focused on serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention, which define how organizations identify, prioritize, and reduce high-energy exposures. His work blends Human & Organizational Performance (H&OP), SIF prevention, operational leadership, and more than a decade of qualitative research and practitioner interviews.
His life journey, including early challenges, career pivots, and years of listening to workers and leaders across diverse environments, fuels his commitment to advancing the safety and health profession and equipping people to lead with clarity and confidence. Jason is also the co-founder of Best Christmas Ever, a nonprofit supporting families through community-driven generosity.
Jason is a CIH and CSP, but mostly grateful to have a J-O-B. He lives in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area with his wife, Malia, and their two-year-old son.
THE SHIFT
Workplace safety regulators, safety professionals and business leaders often say they want to send people home from work in the same condition in which they came. While I believe this to be genuine, why would we ever settle for “same”? People should go home stronger, healthier, and more fulfilled as a result of showing up at our workplaces.
THE APPROACH
1) When it comes to understanding how work is done and where risk needs managing, the smartest people in the organization aren’t at the company HQ, they’re on the frontlines
2) We’re learning to ask “What failed?” not “Who failed?, then adding capacity to the "what"
3) We’re working hard to understand how work is ACTUALLY done vs. how we envision work being done
THE EXPERIENCE
With over a decade of experience with the 3M company in a variety of technical and leadership roles, Jason Kunz demonstrates his passion for the safety and health profession across multiple platforms. A forward-thinker, with the objective to elevate the safety, health and well-being of all workers, Jason uses his voice to amplify the profession and the professional. His life journey, blessings, and struggles have inspired a commitment to building professional communities that ensure an empowerment of their people.
Jason is a husband, co-founder of Best Christmas Ever speaker, coach, and community advocate. He's a CIH and CSP, but mostly grateful to have a J-O-B and work with some of the most passionate and compassionate people on the planet. Married since 2019, Jason and his wife Malia recently welcomed their first child and call Minneapolis-Saint Paul home.
His energy is contagious, his speaking inspiring, his mission, clear – to entertain, educate, and empower every audience he’s privileged to engage with. Doing so until every worker is well.
"The most powerful time to give thanks is when everyone else is complaining."
- Jason Kunz, Keynote Speaker
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