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Safety Leadership is a Core Value for me. 

My deepest operating value is:  “I don’t have a right to make my living in a place where it is okay for you to get hurt.”   Safety is a core leadership issue.  When we get our leadership processes on safety “right”,  everything else gets “right.”  Working professionally, openly and honestly together — with everyone in the workplace — is fundamental.  People want to be winners and we can help that to happen.  We’ve successfully done this in all sorts of businesses in the United Sates, and in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; profits and safety improve quickly; extraordinary results happen for the bottom line.  (For one recent client, for example, his business saved $100,000 to the bottom line).

Professional, Effective Leadership for the Workplace… 

When I ask people to think about a dysfunctional workplace with non-professional behaviors swirling, where harmony and coherence are lacking, and where everything seems tangled up, many people say:  “That sounds like my workplace!”   My response is, “It doesn’t have to be that way, if you don’t want it to be!”  Professionalism in the workplace can be quickly advanced so that organizations and teams become hugely effective at and laser-focused on what they’ve come together to accomplish.  And it all starts when I begin a simple, professional, vital conversation with them—that changes everything.  The benefits show up in the bottom line.

We help people to reach rational solutions to complex problems--while simultaneously building the social connections and emotional energy and commitment to quickly and effectively get the best results. If you want your team, organization, or business to move forward quickly and achieve your key initiatives---with clarity, coherence and collaborative success--please call us. [716-622-6467]

Latest News

February 2012
Learning with our Mastermind Group in Myrtle Beach, SC. Stapleton/Stark, LLC is leading this with focused attention on further developing our marketing strength.
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January 2012
Dick's book, Partnering for Safety and Business Excellence went to press and Claire's book, Lights On! was content-finished and sent to the Editor!
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4th Quarter 2011
Our work continued with clients seeking help in both the Safety Leadership arena and in Business Effectiveness.  During the 4th quarter Dick and Claire served clients in Virginia, Texas, New York and in Milan, Italy.
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August 2011
Richard and Claire Knowles conducted a 5-day session on Safety Leadership and Culture Change with a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, TX.
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July 2011
Creating the game-plan: Claire Knowles, together with colleague Patty Brown of Integrated Business Ventures Inc., completed an Effectiveness Workshop and consultation in the Finger Lakes area of Central NY.
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June 2011
Richard N. Knowles and Associates Receives 2010 Best of Business Award.
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May 2011
Dick and Claire are working in alliance with Stapleton/Stark LLC in developing a more effective marketing program.
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Apr/May 2011
Our work continues with clients seeking help in both the Safety Leadership arena and in Business Effectiveness.  We are presently serving clients in Western New York, in West Virginia and Florida.
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April 2011
Claire and Dick participated in the "Be The Change Event" in Orlando Florida with Suzanne Evans, continuing our business development work.
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