About PPWD
Paul Davison co-founded PPWD in 2011. We wanted to create a business that reflected our values. Consequently we have built a business with an absolute focus on our clients needs, a business that takes a long term view and a business that values long term partnerships rather than short term profit.
We believed that if we value the relationship between us and our clients and us and our associates then success would follow. These beliefs still underpin everything we do today.
Our Purpose:
Create a world where there is zero harm to people at work.
Day in, day out, we strive towards a world which considers both physical and psychological harm as equals, knowing they impact on each other.
We know the journey that is ahead of us when we choose such a purpose, yet why aim low? Our purpose inspires us every day to do that little bit more, to make the effort to be part of a larger community of safety-critical wellbeing.
Our Vision:
Getting everyone home safe every day.
We spend so much of our lives at work, so it is essential that we strive for a world where we return from home in better shape than we went. This is why we:
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Are the UK Ambassadors for the One Percent Safer Foundation.
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Partner Rail Safe Friendly to get rail safety into school.
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Are members of the Mindful Business Charter, working with them ISMA (UK) and International SOS in the Workplace Wellbeing Workgroup.
Our Mission:
To humanise professional learning where all employees are supported to thrive within a compassionate culture.
Everything we do is connected by authentic conversations. From the Boardroom to the Classroom, from the frontline to the back office, unless we talk openly and honestly we cannot create safety capacity. PPWD believe that:
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Everyone has a safety-critical role in safety-critical industries.
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Safety is never about numbers.
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People, as problems solvers co-create safety cultures.
A selection of clients who trust PPWD to deliver
Compassionate Safety in one image:
The PPWD values
People
People naturally solve problems.
We are ever-growing cultivators of thriving cultures, helping others thrive through compassion and care.
Practice
Practice, and we act deliberately.
We are ongoing reflective practitioners, embodying lived values and helping others grow through practice.
Wonder
Wonder, and we desire to know something.
We are lifelong learners, nurturing awe, encouraging exploration and inspiring others to stay curious.
Develop
Develop, and we naturally evolve within learning environments.
We are transformative co-creators, evolving and adapting with purpose and lifting others toward their potential.
A team of passionate experts
Our history
In many respects PPWD started by accident.
In 2011, on leaving the Royal Air Force, an opportunity presented itself to design and deliver a leadership course for a Middle Eastern client. Paul Davison and Paul White became PPWD.
The motivation and driving force throughout our first leadership project and subsequent entry into rail and freight, were, ‘how could we make a difference, how can we make it better for all concerned?
The impact of our courses gained the attention of ever-increasing management levels, until we were able to also undertake boardroom, and heads of department workshops. Simultaneously, our industry portfolio has expanded into manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure.
Throughout PPWD’s existence there has been a curiosity, a thread of wonder. An inquisitiveness to both know more, and to know in greater depth, a richness of being. Why do we do what we do? Why do those things sometimes lead to sub-optimal outcomes, adverse events and deviations from expected outcomes? Why and how did they make sense at the time?