Every movement starts with an idea.
In this episode, we hear from the person who brought the Safety Summit 2025 to life: Matt Jones, founder of Advanced Safety and the New Zealand Health and Safety Professionals community.
Matt shares the journey behind the event — from a small idea in 2016, to an online community of 3,000 practitioners, to a room full of nearly 180 safety leaders gathered in Christchurch.
He also reflects on how safety should shift from being an “external task” to something fully embedded in the way organisations operate every day.
Matt speaks to the three themes that shaped this year’s Summit — leadership, strategy and community — and the powerful call to action echoed by every speaker: to take what was learned and embed it into our work, not let it fade.
A powerful look inside the heart of the Summit and the vision that brought it to life.
This video is part of our Safety Summit 2025 – Backstage with the Speakers Series.
