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Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 13: Redefining Leadership: The Path to Authentic Risk CultureAbout the Guest:Philippa Girling—a former Chief Risk Officer who left the corporate world to create spaces where women can thrive authentically. In 2022, she made a bold transition from corporate finance to found Camp Château—a summer camp for women in southwest France focused on creating authentic, inclusive, and restorative experiences.Philippa’s philosophy:Diversity and inclusion aren’t simply HR initiatives—they’re how we build powerful teams. People need to be not just asked into the room, but asked to lead the dance.Episode Highlights:🏦 From Wall Street...
2025-11-2535 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 12: Engineering a Safer World through Systems ThinkingExplore the topics of software safety — from Chain-of-Events to System-Theoretic Accident Models. About the Guest:Dr. Nancy Leveson is a professor at MIT and one of the world’s leading voices in system and software safety. Since founding the field of software safety in 1980, she has developed the STAMP, CAST, and STPA frameworks that have reshaped how regulators, companies, and investigators understand accidents in complex socio-technical systems.​ Nancy Leveson’s philosophy:Software doesn’t fail—requirements do.Episode Highlights:🔧 From Hardware Thinking to System ThinkingLeveson explain...
2025-11-1832 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 11: Why OSHA Still Matters in 2025?About the Guest:Jordan Barab ran AFSCME’s safety program in the 1980s before becoming OSHA’s Deputy Assistant Secretary under President Obama for nearly eight years. He now channels that experience into his hard-hitting blog Confined Space, chronicling weekly tolls of workplace fatalities and the politics that shape them.​Jordan’s philosophy:I didn’t insert politics into health and safety—I just try to explain it.Episode Highlights:⚖️ The Labor-Management BattleBarab explains why occupational safety remains deeply political despite seemingly universal support for workers coming home aliv...
2025-11-1052 min
PreAccident Investigation PodcastPAPod 571 - Fail Fast, Learn Faster: A Conversation on Human Performance and RecoveryIn this episode Todd Conklin joins Jowanza Joseph to explore modern safety thinking: why human error is normal, how context shapes behavior, and why leadership response and system recoverability matter more than blame.
They draw on examples from Los Alamos, AWS outages, SpaceX and everyday technology to show how organizations can design systems that tolerate failure and learn from it.
Listeners will get practical insights into the five principles of human performance and how to build resilient systems that fail safely and recover quickly.
2025-11-0829 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 10: The Board's Blind Spot: Why Ethics & Compliance Belong at the TableAbout the Guest:Vera Cherepanova is Executive Director of Boards of the Future and one of the few individuals to receive the “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” designation from the US government for her contributions to compliance and ethics. She authored the first-ever compliance book in Russian and serves on corporate boards globally. For decades, she worked across ethics, compliance, internal audit, and risk—giving her a comprehensive view of the “second and third lines of defense”.​Vera’s philosophy:Everything counts. It’s a long game—take it as such. Everything you do, every introduction...
2025-11-0348 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 9: The future of AI GovernanceAbout the Guest:Ahmed Salim is a Director at PwC, where he specializes in Compliance within Healthcare and Pharma Life Sciences, with a particular focus on AI and AI Governance. He is also the author of Mastering Compliance Through Change Management. His career has taken him from congressional field representation to chief compliance officer roles across multiple organizations, giving him unique insight into the political and human dynamics that drive compliance effectiveness. Ahmed holds a law degree and a master’s degree in communication, and he regularly contributes to Compliance Today and CEP Magazine.Ahmed’s Ph...
2025-10-2741 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 8: Buried in Silence: What Mount St. Helens, Upper Big Branch, and Black Lung Reveal About Industrial RiskAbout the Guest:Howard Berkes spent 38 years at NPR exposing hidden industrial dangers, from the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 miners to the black lung disease epidemic. His groundbreaking investigations have earned him more than 40 national journalism awards, including the IRE Medal—the highest honor in investigative reporting.Howard’s philosophy:Workers deserve to go home every day safe, healthy, and alive. If I see something that interferes with that and it’s not being addressed properly, I feel like I should do something about it.Episode Highlights:⛏...
2025-10-2043 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 7: Safety Systems in ActionAbout the Guest:Paul Gruhn developed the world’s first commercial safety system modeling software in 1994, served as ISA president in 2019, and co-chaired the ISA 84 Standard Committee for years.Paul’s philosophy:Doing the modeling doesn’t make your plant any safer. People don’t have accidents because you got your model wrong.Episode Highlights:🎯 From Forensics to Functional SafetyGruhn shares how a chance encounter at an ISA show launched his 40-year career in safety engineering. Working alongside a 70-year-old English reliability consultant who later passed away, Paul...
2025-10-1343 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 6: Burning Down the City - How a Risk Formula Reshaped New YorkJoe Flood isn’t just any journalist—he’s the Harvard-educated author who spent seven years uncovering one of America’s most devastating algorithmic failures. His book The Fires reveals how a computer model literally burned down entire NYC neighborhoods in the 1970s, and the lessons couldn’t be more relevant today.🚨 Beyond the Algorithm: Universal Risk LessonsThis conversation reveals how NYC’s devastating fire crisis applies across industries facing similar model-over-reality challenges. Whether in AI deployment, urban planning, or healthcare resource allocation, the lessons about data quality, institutional blind spots, and the danger of algorithmic...
2025-10-0641 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 5: Lessons from NASA's Greatest LossesGuest Bio:Michael Ciannilli is NASA’s Program Manager for the Apollo, Challenger, Columbia Lessons Learned. A longtime NASA leader, Mike is responsible for maintaining and presenting the legacy of NASA’s most difficult moments ensuring that the lessons are never forgotten and that culture, communication, and safety stay at the forefront of every mission.Now independent from NASA, Mike shares these vital lessons with organizations across industries—from energy and healthcare to banking and manufacturing—helping them build safer cultures through honest examination of failure. His approach focuses not just on what went wrong, but why...
2025-09-2951 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 4: Air Risks Uncovered in Conversation with Christine NegroniIn this episode of Industrial Risk Beyond the Blueprint, we dive deep into aviation safety with renowned crash investigator and journalist Christine Negroni.Christine’s philosophy: The only way that aviation can stay as safe as it is today is by constantly challenging it.Episode Highlights:🔍 The TWA 800 MysteryNegroni shares how covering the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster launched her decades-long career investigating aviation mysteries. She reveals the behind-the-scenes controversy surrounding the crash, debunking persistent theories about missiles and terrorism while exposing Boeing's knowledge of a critical fuel tank...
2025-09-101h 14
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 3: Mastering Multi-Dimensional Risk with the Risk Doctor👋 Hello Industrial Risk Community,What if risk management could be as simple as asking seven common-sense questions? In Episode 3 of "Industrial Risk: Beyond the Blueprint", we sit down with Dr. David Hillson—globally known as "The Risk Doctor"—to demystify one of industry's most crucial disciplines.🔬 This Episode's Expert: Dr. David HillsonWith over 35 years in risk management, 15+ books, and experience across 60 countries, Dr. Hillson has built his reputation on making risk management accessible and actionable. From rescuing troubled engineering projects in the 1980s to advising NASA on Mars missions, he's transformed how organizati...
2025-08-2145 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint🎙️ Episode 2: Understanding the Three Mile Island Crisis with J. Samuel WalkerIn Episode 2 of "Industrial Risk: Beyond the Blueprint", we travel back to March 28, 1979, to unpack one of America's most consequential industrial crises—and discover what it still teaches us today.🔬 This Episode's Expert: J. Samuel WalkerHistorian and author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, J. Samuel Walker, served as the official historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for over three decades. His in-depth work documents the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, exploring its technical, regulatory, and political ramifications. A trusted voice...
2025-08-2047 min
Industrial Risk: Beyond The BlueprintEpisode 1: A New Space For Industrial Risk ManagementHost Jowanza Joseph breaks down the unique mission behind Industrial Risk: Beyond The Blueprint and the specific gap it fills for risk and compliance professionals. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parakeetinc.substack.com
2025-06-1904 min
Into the HopperBuilding a Startup with AI with Jowanza JosephJowanza Joseph shares how his startup leverages AI tools like Cursor to accelerate software development and compete with established players.
2024-12-1700 minInto the HopperApache Pulsar with Jowanza JosephI talk with Jowanza Joseph about his new book Mastering Apache Pulsar: Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale.
Links:
Jowanza's Pulsar talks
Jowanza's Twitter
Jowanza's website
Pulsar homepage
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps
StreamNative - Hosted Pulsar
Datastax Astra Streaming - Hosted Pulsar
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Pulsar Functions
Pulsar IO
Pulsar SQL
Apache ZooKeeper
Apache BookKeeper
2022-02-0700 min
Adversarial LearningAdversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics. While I (Joel) was procrastinating on editing it, a lot happened in the world. And then Jowanza wrote a blog post about his experiences with racism and how they've affected his life. Which made it feel really weird to just put out an episode with him that doesn't mention any of these issues. So the three of us went back into the (metaphorical) studio and recorded another episode mostly about his blog post, about racism, and about the state...
2020-06-151h 31