Vaughn TAN is a consultant, author, toolmaker, and professor of strategy at University College London. For over a decade, Vaughn has helped businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies — like the Singapore Government, Wellcome, and Carlyle Group — design themselves to flourish in uncertainty. He wrote The Uncertainty Mindset (a book about uncertainty and innovation organizations) and makes idk (a training tool for productive discomfort). He is currently working on building better...

Show notes Peter A. Hancock, D.Sc., Ph.D. is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Simulation and Training, as well as at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida (UCF). In 2009, he was named Pegasus Professor of the University of Central Florida. This is the highest award of the University that is now the second...

Show Notes Ron Besuijen is a Training Specialist with Nova Chemicals in Joffre, Alberta. He has worked for 35 years in the petrochemical industry. He is qualified on four control panels, and was involved with the commissioning and startup of a new facility. In addition to his operational experience, Ron has been a training specialist for the last 18 years. He trains console operators with the use of a training simulator, and manages the training systems for his organization. He is a member...

We are honored to be joined today by Gerd Gigerenzer. Dr. Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and partner of Simply Rational – The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Professor of Psychology at the University of...

Dr. Joan H. Johnston (Retired) has over 30 years of experience as a Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. She has written and collaborated on over 100 publications and has given innumerable presentations and tutorials about her research which has had a significant impact on advancing the science of Learning, Team Training, Decision Making under Stress, Performance Measurement, and Organizational Development. She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial &...

Christian is interested in human worlds, human perception and the skill of observation, which is reflected in the diversity of his professional experience. He has been a full time Professor of Applied Humanities at The New School for Social Research; a Senior Fellow at The Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) in Tokyo, Japan and a Distinguished Visitor at The Buffett Center for International Affairs at Northwestern University in Chicago.He co-founded ReD Associates, a pioneering...

Kevin Oden is an LM Fellow at Lockheed where has work for 14 years. Currently, he leads research initiatives focused on Human-Autonomy Collaboration. In this role, he supports cross corporation efforts and has responsibilities for engagements with universities, DOD service labs, and small business partners. He was earned his Ph.D. in Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology at the University of Central Florida. He was a Graduate Research Fellow at the Consortium of Universities in...

Today we welcome David Feldon, Professor of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Feldon’s research examines two lines of inquiry that are distinct but mutually supportive. The first characterizes the cognitive components of expertise as they contribute to effective and innovative problem solving, as well as how they affect the quality of instruction that experts can provide. The second examines the development...

Today we welcome Thomas Lahnthaler. Thomas is an experienced crisis manager, facilitator, and author. For the past two decades, he has worked in over 30 countries, started two companies, and published his first book last summer, called Navigating Beyond Crisis. Thomas currently manages the leadership development of a global holding company. He advises companies globally on leadership and learning and has turned his passion for human dynamics into his profession, specializing in designing...

Nancy Cooke is a professor in Human Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic School, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.  She also directs Global Security Initiative’s Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming.  Professor Cooke’s research interests include the study of individual and team cognition. Applied research topics include: · the development of cognitive and knowledge engineering methodologies, · sensor operator threat detection, · cyber and...

This podcast episode is from an informational webinar hosted by the Naturalistic Decision Making Association on December 15th, 2022.  The webinar outlines the purpose and parameters of CTA in E/Affect, a challenge sponsored by Schmidt Futures to strengthen the case for Cognitive Task Analysis in the workplace. What is Cognitive Task Analysis? CTA is a toolkit used by psychologists, researchers, and instructional designers to understand how high-performing professionals make complex...

Original Air Date: 8/27/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Emily Patterson. Emily is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Ohio State  University. She is known for her application of naturalistic decision-making and cognitive engineering in health care. She did groundbreaking work in bar code medication administration when that technology was new,  highlighting unintended consequences and making recommendations to improve the integration of...

Today we welcome John Schmitt to the podcast. John is a Senior Research Associate and the head of the ShadowBox Danger Division, which focuses on decision training for law enforcement, military, firefighting, and other high-risk domains. John is a former Marine Corps infantry officer. As a captain, he authored Warfighting, the manual that introduced the Corps’ new Maneuver Warfare operational doctrine and became the manifesto for the Marine Corps reforms of the 1990s. Warfighting has been...

Original Air Date: 1/29/2021 Show Description: Simon Henderson is an independent deception consultant working in the  UK and the US.  His career has involved researching, teaching, and consulting on deception, counter-deception, information operations and cyber operations within a variety of government, military, and law enforcement organizations.  He is passionate about novel and pro-social applications of these fields. Learn more about Simon’s work: Deception by Design Evaluation of...

Rollin J. “Terry” Fairbanks, MD, MS, is the Vice President Quality  and Safety at MedStar Health, Professor of Emergency Medicine at  Georgetown University, and Founding Director of the National Center for  Human Factors in Healthcare. A board-certified emergency physician, he  practices in the MedStar Washington Hospital Center emergency  department. Dr. Fairbanks also holds an academic appointment as adjunct  associate professor of Industrial Systems Engineering at the University  at...

This episode contains a keynote delivered by Gary Klein at the NDM Association's 2022 virtual Open House.  Dr. Klein pioneered the Naturalistic Decision Making movement in 1989.  He is well-known for his work in advancing a number of decision-making tools, methods, and cognitive models. These include the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, the Data/Frame model of sensemaking, the PreMortem method of risk assessment, techniques for Cognitive Task Analysis, and the ShadowBox training...

Today we welcome Wendy Jephson. Wendy Jephson is the Founding CEO of LetsThink, a new start-up that produces domain-specific technology designed specifically to support complex analytic thinking. LetsThink specializes in engaged intelligence, enabling its clients to think brilliantly. Dual qualified as a commercial lawyer and business psychologist with domain expertise in healthcare and financial services, this is Wendy's second start-up.  As Co-Founder of Sybenetix, Wendy was instrumental...

Date recorded: November 12, 2021 Show Description: Today we welcome John Allspaw. John is an engineering leader and  researcher with over 20 years of experience in building and leading  teams engaged in software and systems engineering. He is a co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, LLC. Previously, he was  Chief Technology Officer at Etsy. He has also worked at Flickr,  Friendster, InfoWorld, Salon, Genentech, Volpe National Transportation  Center, and a bunch of other places as a...

Date: 09/01/2021 Show Description: Beth Lay’s expertise is in applying Resilience Engineering, High Reliability Organizations, and Safety II to Human Performance. She is currently guiding the transformation from traditional, behavior-based safety to “new view” Safety II as the Director of Safety and Human Performance for Lewis Tree. Beth has advised on resilience and human performance for NASA, the Department Of Energy, and Los Alamos National Labs. Beth is a mechanical engineer with a...

Date: 05/25/2021 Show Description: Penny Sanderson is Professor of Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors at The University of Queensland, where she has appointments in the School of Psychology, School of Information Technology and  Electrical Engineering, and School of Clinical Medicine. She graduated with her BA (with Honors) from University of Western Australia and then completed her PhD at University of Toronto in Canada. She worked for 11 years at University of Illinois at...

Date: 04/16/2021 Show Description: Bill is Founder, President, and CSE Fellow at Resilient Cognitive  Solutions.  Bill’s military career includes an ROTC Commission in 1977  from Carnegie-Mellon University as a Distinguished Military Graduate,  with further military education including Airborne, Ranger, Military  Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, CAS3, and Command and  General Staff College. He has held leadership positions up to  MI Battalion Command, Brigade S3, as well...

Date: 04/08/2021 Show Description: Mary "Missy" Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. Cummings is currently a Professor at the Duke University Pratt School of  Engineering, the Duke...

Date: 3/18/2021 Show Description: Cindy is a Principal Cognitive Engineer and Capability Lead for Human Machine Teaming (HMT) at MITRE in Bedford, MA where she works to normalize the use of systems engineering processes that create effective partnerships between people and technology. She strives to build a strong community of MITRE Human Machine Teaming practitioners.  Before coming to MITREin 2014, she led numerous studies of applied cognitive work in the Air Force and for industry. She...

Dr. Mosier is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology from San Francisco  State University and the Founder and Principal Scientist of TeamScape  LLC, a company founded to conduct research on teams in  work environments. She is the President of the International  Ergonomics Association (IEA), the federation of ergonomics and human  factors societies around the world.   The mission of the IEA is to  elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to expand  its scope of application and...