Safety Leadership Academy

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Disciplines: Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability | Management

Course Description

Join us and become part of a new era of Safety Culture and Leadership

Welcome to the Safety Leadership Academy, a collaboration between the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), CEDEP Executive Education, and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP).

This unique and highly differentiating safety leadership academy is tailored for the Oil & Gas industry. Join world class experts from across the industry and beyond for this disruptive safety leadership academy.  Explore and learn to master advanced leadership concepts and safety management practices that will help participants develop the mindset, skills and culture required to cultivate and sustain the honest conversations needed to ensure theories enable practice – not to mention the network of fellow professionals who become your sounding boards and friends.

Participants will develop leadership capabilities for changing the safety paradigm and to help those on their journey to making zero harm the way we work. The program was initially inspired by the insights of the SPE ‘Getting to Zero and Beyond’ technical report distilling the experience of over 800 industry professionals. Those insights were further substantiated by the IOGP 452 and 453 reports, and Reports 621 and 642; ERM’s Safety Surveys and CEDEP’s extensive expertise on safety leadership development through transformative executive education.

The program is designed as a learning journey convening cohorts mixing HSE and Operations, Operators and Contractors each bringing their real safety challenges into the learning environment where faculty can create the conditions for those challenges to become deep learning experiences. The program includes individual and group coaching, going beyond traditional safety leadership and preparing managers to lead in a transforming, volatile and complex world.

For more information, download our flyer below. If you are interested in learning more ask your head of HSE learning or HSE discipline lead to reach out to programdirector@safetyleadershipacademy.org.

Catalysing a new era of safety culture and leadership
 

Download our 2025 Safety Leadership Academy Flyer ►
 

Learning Level

Intermediate to Advanced

Course Length

2026 Cohorts

Visit Safety Leadership Academy website to learn more about 2026 cohort dates and hosting locations.

Three program segments:

PHASE 1: Residential 3-Day Course

• Understanding the limits of modern management and its impact on the way we manage safety
• Leading Mental Models Shift: Moving from compliance to trust
• Learning from normal work: Human factors and Human Performance
• Creating Trust and Psychological Safety
• Understanding self: Emotional Intelligence
• Working on real-world strategic challenges as red-thread

PHASE 2: Apply the Learnings (3-4 months)

Participants return to their work environment and apply their learnings to strategic challenges. This will be supported by virtual meetings: action labs, webinars, calls with our program director.

PHASE 3: Residential 3-Day Course

• Adopting a sociological approach to understand behaviours and act on weak signals
• Getting more from what we do: Learning and applying a novel and effective way of observing and engaging
• Rethinking HSE Communications and why it matters
• Resilience for performance: managing energy & well-being
• Workshop on your strategic challenges

Why Attend

• Unique gathering of participants from across the industry (IOC, NOC, independent operating companies, oil field service companies).
• Exposure to world class experts on leadership and safety on how to sustain honest conversations which challenge the theories and the practices that undermine zero harm.
• A unique 3-phase structure for a proven reinforced learning experience resulting in fundamental change in the individual’s safety and leadership capabilities.
• Learning and personal development through individual and group coaching.

Who Attends

Middle and Senior-level Executives, including newly appointed country CEOs, Operational Managers and Technical (HSE) Managers.

CEUs

56 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this course.

Additional Resources

Course Style

Case Studies, Discussion, In-class Exercises, Lecture, Presentation, Field Trip and other unique, practical team-building events.

The Academy Includes:

• Six days of in-person, immersive learning and facilitated workshops from world experts in Safety Leadership and Executive Leadership Development. The six days of immersive learning are divided over 2 three-day residential sessions with a four month remote learning period.
• SPE-CEDEP-IOGP Safety Leadership certification and 56 CEUs on successful completion of this executive education program.
• Membership of the CEDEP alumni community and associated benefits

Application Information

Participants at this academy are selected by their employer companies with whom the Academy project team engages directly. Attendance is limited to maximize each person’s opportunity to learn.

For those requiring visas to attend the academy, please ensure sufficient time is left for visa processing.

All registration invoices must be settled or POs raised before attending the SLA. 

CEDEP Cancellation Policy

The cancellation or postponement of a programme/module/period is payable (except for certain cases) according to the following conditions:

• 6-4 months before the start of the programme: 25% of the training costs
• 4-1 months before the start of the programme: 50% of the training costs
• Less than one month: 100% of the training costs and 50% of the related services

For digital programmes, the above rules also apply in case of cancellation or postponement of a module/intervention/event.

For programmes taking place off CEDEP campus, the above percentages apply to training costs and all related services such as hotel reservations, travel expenses, except in particular cases linked to the more stringent general conditions of third parties.

Absence, cancellation or postponement of a participant in a residential course:

For all cases, any change made less than 7 days before the start of the programme/module/period will result in the invoicing of the entire amount of accommodation, catering, etc...

Read full CEDEP General Terms and Conditions.

We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.

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