Rick Shaw

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About Rick Shaw

Interested in understanding how a radically different and safer future can be created in schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities? Rick Shaw is a researcher, visionary, and pre-incident prevention expert investing 25+ years into researching why tens of thousands of preventable incidents and tragedies were not prevented, then doing something about it by creating a new and different category of solutions. For 25+ years, we have read stories about incidents and tragedies where more than enough “pre-incident indicators” existed (red flags, warning signs, concerning behaviors, leakage, etc.) but they were missed, ignored, fell through the cracks, or “we didn’t connect the dots”. Asking different questions than conventional research, Rick uncovered hundreds and hundreds of common silos, gaps, disconnects, barriers, and blind spots. Then he created a different category of solutions to “collect and connect all the dots” where the dots are the pre-incident indicators, hundreds of sources/silos, and numerous resources (org and community) who are siloed due to being multi-disciplinary team members. Creating a radically different and safer future requires a different category of solutions, not the same status quo solutions that allowed incidents, tragedies, and lawsuits to soar to record levels. Rick’s visionary innovations have been recognized with the Risk Innovator award from Risk & Insurance Magazine, Responsibility Leader award from Liberty Mutual, Business Innovation award from Business Insurance, Campus Safety BEST Award from Campus Safety Magazine, and MVP Award from Security Sales & Integration Magazine. Rick’s book – The First Preventers Playbook: How To Intervene, Disrupt, and Prevent Tragedy Before It Strikes – shares game-changing findings from his research, the 6 Stages of Prevention, the value of Return on Prevention, and the innovative First Preventers Framework that delivers a radically different future for pre-incident prevention and safety. Rick is the founder of the for-profit company Awareity (2004) and the founder of the non-profit organization First Preventers (2019), as well as a sought-after speaker, Prevention Coach, trusted advisor to organization and community leaders, and the leading expert on community-wide collecting and connecting the dots. Return on Prevention is far better than Return on Regret. Contact Rick when you are ready to be a hero in delivering a different and safer future.