Phil La Duke

Mr. Phil La Duke is a business consultant who specializes in worker safety. He is currently employed on contract with a major film and television studio as a Production Safety Consultant where he helps everyone associated with producing filmed entertainment to make more informed and better decisions about their safety. He is also a board member of 15 Industrial Review Boards that oversee the safety of research using recombinant DNA.

Previously, Mr. La Duke was an equity partner global company where he worked on large-scale organizational change programs primarily in worker safety. He is an expert in the fields of Violence Prevention, Worker Safety, Organizational Development, Process Improvement, Cultural Change Implementation, and Training. In addition to the Entertainment business, La Duke has provided consulting to the Manufacturing, Energy, Logistics, Travel, Mining, Oil & Gas, and Construction segments.

Phil La Duke has over 3,500 published works in print and has contributed content to numerous notable magazines, including Entrepreneur, Authority, Thrive Global, and Monster. Mr. La Duke is published on all inhabited continents. His take-no-prisoners style garnered him positions on Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) magazine’s Power 101 (a list of the world’s most influential people working in worker safety) and its list of Up and Comers in Safety Thought Leadership.

La Duke's style is sarcastic, caustic, and in your face. He pulls no punches which makes his writing accessible to almost everyone. You don't have to be a safety nerd to enjoy his writings and the reactions that uptight, intellectually constipated, ass-clowns typically have to his work.

In addition to his impressive body of written work and consulting, La Duke is a popular and engaging speaker who has delivered presentations and training in eight countries on three continents. He is available for private speaking engagements or consulting by calling him at +01-313-244-2525.

Here's what others have to say about La Duke:

“Chris Rock once said: "You can only offend me if you mean something to me". Phil's writing doesn’t pull punches and may be a bit like someone swinging a bag of broken glass in a crowded room but if his words cut deep and gouge a lot of nerves it’s only because he has the insight and courage to articulate what many of us are thinking and, for the rest, still struggling with weird feelings, he puts his gnarly finger right on it. People love him because he has empathy and vents on their behalf, people hate him because he has figured them out, exposed them, challenged their worldview and sent their cognitive dissonance into meltdown. Either way, Phil's writing means something to everyone. He has inspired and completely changed the trajectory and style of my own writing. In the words of another safety literary legend and fellow Phil Fan, the late George Robotham: "It would be a boring world if everybody agreed with me". —Dave Collins, Creator, Editor, and Publisher https://safetyrisk.net/

“Phil’s passion comes through in virtually everything he writes. He is an outspoken advocate for employee engagement and respect for workers”—Dr. Paul Marciano, Best selling author of Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of Respect and Super Teams:Using the Principles of Respect to Unleash Explosive Business Performance

“Phil La Duke is an original. After Phil they broke the mold. Certainly his thoughts and ideas on workplace safety and health fit no mold. Phil is no safety drone. His writing is provocative, sometime blunt, sometimes insulting, sometimes raw. His is an outsider’s take, almost an outlaw’s take, on what is good, bad and ugly about current workplace safety thinking and practices. It’s a perspective you won’t find anywhere else.”—Dave Johnson, Editor. ISHN magazine

“Phil La Duke has devoted his career to industrial safety. He knows the importance of doing an unglamorous job well and what goes terribly wrong when people don't. He is angry about all the right things.—Peter Page, contributed content editor Entrepreneur magazine

Phil LaDuke truly shatters the decades-old mindsets of safety professionals that have mired the profession in ideological adherence to accident safety practices, while stifling the introduction of innovative approaches. Provocative as Phil is, he brings a refreshing counterbalance to the safety conversation and makes us think. Indeed, Phil is the “Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe” of the safety profession.——Dr. James Leeman