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Meet Our Team
Smart, practical, and focused on delivering impressive results.
But more than that, we are grounded in the realities of operational work across a wide variety of domains. We work with minimal interruptions to your company to diligently conduct studies and assessments that reflect the often hidden barriers to safe, reliable, and resilient performance.
We use this combination of smarts and insight to produce innovative approaches and exceptional results.
Dr. Laura Maguire
Founder & Principal Engineer
Laura has over 20 years of experience working in safety, risk management, cognitive systems design, and resilient systems engineering.
She has worked in a wide variety of high tempo domains including software development, military & defense, forestry, construction, oil & gas, energy distribution, and healthcare. She knows research needs to minimize interruptions to production.
Having worked extensively in "dirty & dangerous" environments throughout her career she is comfortable in high hazard operational environments and brings a grounded and adaptable approach to studying and supporting high risk and high value work.
She has proven her ability to design and implement interventions and program that sustain safe, productive operations. Her research & guidance has helped start ups, fast growing early stage companies, and large enterprises- including Fortune 500 companies.
Dr. Morgan Reynolds
Cognitive Systems Engineer
Dr. Morgan Reynolds is an engineer trained in both cognitive systems and resilience engineering. Morgan has worked on research projects in healthcare, air traffic control, software engineering, and defense focused on human-human and human-machine coordination, representation design, building resilience, and supporting system safety.
Her doctoral work studied how practitioners adjust their coordination, monitoring, and authority relationships to accomplish fast-paced, high-risk work.
She loves the opportunity to uncover pressures and practices that are impacting performance in fast-paced, high-value, and high-risk work environments.