HOP Into Action Podcast Series

Brent Sutton

Business Government

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Twas the Night of Curious Questions
12/23/2025 | 3 mins.
Welcome to Season 6 and the 134th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action. In this episode of HOP Into Action, Santa shares a story about three curious men to visited Santas workshop on christmas eve.From all the team at Learning Teams Inc, we wish you all the best this holiday season, and this pod will return in the new year! Until then, where ever you are, continue being curious, it will take you far.
Vancouver Workshop: A Case Study in Failure, Justice, and Resilience
12/09/2025 | 27 mins.
Todd Conklin talks with Brent Sutton and Jeff Lyth about the upcoming HOP Workshop in Vancouver (Jan 28–29, 2026), centered on Redonda’s powerful firsthand story of patient safety, complex systems, restorative justice and resilience — lessons that translate across industries.Day one features Redonda’s narrative and panel discussion; day two focuses on hands‑on learning and innovation.Please attend, this workshop will be amazingly good for the soul!For tickets and details visit hopconference.com
The Stability Trap: When success becomes the seed for failure
11/30/2025 | 6 mins.
Welcome to Season 6 and the 132nd episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action. In this episode of HOP Into Action, Brent Sutton explores Todd Conklin's latest book, "The Stability Trap".Amazon.com link
How to Uncover Hidden Trade-Offs in High-Risk Work
11/15/2025 | 16 mins.
Welcome to Season 6 and the 131st episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.In this episode of HOP Into Action, Brent Sutton explores the ETTO principle from Erik Hollnagel and how the tradeoffs we make at work and at home are normal, and how HOP and the 4Ds can help us to operationally learn and improve our systems to reduce the presence of tradeoffs in high-risk work activities.
Rules and Imagine verus Rules as Done
11/02/2025 | 14 mins.
Welcome to Season 6 and the 130th episode of the podcast show HOP Into Action.In this episode of HOP Into Action, Brent Sutton reframes safety rules from “controlling people” to supporting work. We trace the history of rules from factory-era prohibitions, Taylorist scripts, and audit checklists to today’s HOP mindset, and then show how to make rules useful at the job.

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About HOP Into Action Podcast Series

HOP Into Action is a podcast of the broadcast that can be heard on Safety FM. The show is an ongoing discussion about building a better community of practice for people and organizations who want to improve safety, quality and operational excellence using HOP, Learning Teams, 4Ds and other learning framework. The host of the podcast, Brent Sutton, explores through conversation, diversity of thought and reflection the organizational challenges and learning opportunities that can be identified and improved on by using HOP and Learning Teams for Normal Everyday Work, Management of Change to create betterwork. For those of you in safety, it is about moving from preventative safety to productive safety and creating sustainable practice and improvement in operstions.

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