Duke-Energy
US Marines & Army
Corning
NIOSH
Washington Gas
NPL
Pavement Recycling Systems
Canadian Utility Corp
ASSE, CSSE, NSC, NAEM
Ascend Performance Materials
Bayer
Ethical Corporation
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Dr. Sara Luckhaupt
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Dawn Castillo
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Mary Hill
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"Cathy is one of the best safety and health professionals I have worked with. She is extremely knowledgeable on all aspects of occupational safety and health. I highly recommend her."
"I had the privilege of working with Cathy and experienced one of the strongest and most effective partnerships I’ve seen between Operations and the Safety Department. Cathy is exceptionally knowledgeable in safety laws and regulations, incident investigation, risk assessment, and exposure mitigation. She brings both technical depth and practical judgment, ensuring safety initiatives are not only compliant but impactful. What truly distinguishes Cathy is her ability to communicate and collaborate across a wide and diverse audience—from frontline laborers to senior executives. In an industry where silos can easily form, Cathy served as a critical bridge across departments and companies, aligning stakeholders around shared safety goals. Her dedication to her role was evident every day and directly contributed to a measurable, positive shift in our overall safety culture. It was genuinely a pleasure working with Cathy, and I highly recommend her to any organization seeking a safety leader who delivers results through expertise, partnership, and integrity.
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"Cathy is a great leader and a person with a unique ability to identify the needs of the organization and translate them into value activities and goals. She is very objective and with a sense of equality with the team she led. It was a pleasure to work under her leadership."
Cesar reported to Cathy at Trane (formerly known as American Standard)
"Cathy’s show is innovative and creative on the topic of safety—the first radio show of its kind and one of my favorites on my positive programming network Amazing Women Of Power.
She is very passionate and committed to her message and her interview style is comfortable and conversational. Cathy’s guests are national experts from government and industry on safety and health topics for the workplace and families, and sustainability. Her shows are very educational and fun. She's definitely the “go to” gal in her area of expertise of safety culture and sustainability.
Appreciate you Cathy...you're AWESOME!"
“Cathy introduced a very innovative approach to H&S management driving a sustained mindset and cultural change in the company. She is very knowledgeable and results-oriented and has been widely recognized performance in the H&S arena. Cathy is an enthusiastic and a charismatic leader, who can help organizations and people capitalizing on their strengths and make a true difference in a sustained way over tas a strong leader in her field of expertise. She has been instrumental to embedding high performing processes in the way the business is managed and accomplished long-term and clearly measured unprecedented time.”
Emanuela Bonadmin, VP Human Resources Europe at Arrow Europe and Former VP HR EMEA, American Standard Europe. Worked indirectly for Cathy at Trane (formerly known as American Standard), where Cathy was the Corporate VP, Safety & Occupational Health
"Cathy was knowledgeable, professional and adaptive. She communicated with me regularly to ensure she knew the audience and adjusted her six sigma presentation/training to gain the maximum impact. Highly recommended!” Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value.
“Cathy is a talented businesswoman who uses her deep expertise in safety, health and environmental management to lead organizational change and business performance. She is creative in her communications to every level of the organization and delivers sustainable results because she builds a carefully constructed path forward that is simple to follow and embrace as one's own. Her passion for a safe work environment is contagious to those she leads. I wholeheartedly recommend Cathy.”
“Cathy is a dedicated & true leader. She has the ability to communicate effectively at all level, especially at the top management level, to set vision & drive strategic improvement processes. Under her leadership, the changes in safety culture and safety performance improvement over 6-7 years, in the former American Standard Group, were incredible.”
“Cathy and her team provided a strong foundation and leadership for health and safety improvement based on a top to bottom commitment. World class performance was obtained through a combination of consistent reporting, coupled with detailed and specific action plans to address issues. Her approach is professional with a clear bias towards action, both of which are required to achieve meaningful gain in this important area.”
"Cathy has a tremendous amount of practical knowledge and experience in what it takes to transform an organization to sustainable world-class safety performance. Her model of "Culture, Process, & Talent" is simple but comprehensive and provides all of the necessary steps to drive improvement in a balanced approach. Cathy has been invaluable to me over the last 2 years, as we drive our safety performance at Ascend to an even higher level of excellence."
“A strategic thinker with practical experience, Cathy has strong technical skills and capabilities, as well as personal experience in designing and implementing safety strategies to improve safety culture. She is a good collaborator and communicator. She understands the roles all levels of management and how to effectively engage them in driving culture change.” Top qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative.
“Cathy is a true safety professional. She excels in defining and communicating a comprehensive strategic vision as well as identifying specific actions to achieve desired results. Cathy communicates the safety imperative with passion and commitment. She has the unique ability to communicate effectively at all levels, from the CEO's office to the factory floor. I would highly recommend Cathy to any organization seeking to achieve superior results.”
