Expert Maritime Leadership and Operational Reliability Consultancy Service
Navigating your shipping challenges with expertise.
About Kingdom Maritime Ltd
My Expertise
At Kingdom Maritime Ltd, I specialise in shipping and maritime leadership, operational reliability and safety risk management. With extensive experience in 'C' Suite global operations and HSEQ, I aim to deliver tailored solutions that optimise business safety and reliability performance.
Hello
Welcome
It's great to welcome your interest. I hope you take a moment to drop me a line, or ask a question.
I have 40+ years oil and gas maritime experience, from shipboard operations to 'C' Suite management and industry Directorship.
Brian Horsburgh, MBA, Master Mariner
Site Content
Services
The shipping & maritime industry is complex, relying on multiple interdependent technical and support functions to successfully deliver safe and reliable operations. People are the solution to managing the variability in everyday work. My services are designed to develop leadership, individual and team 'soft' skills needed for success!
- Human & Operational Performance
- Operational Reliability
- Psychological Safety (Speak Up Culture)
- Individual and Team Accountability
- 1-2-1 leadership coaching
- Facilitation of strategic programme teams ('Guiding Coalitions')
- Safety & Organisational Culture Strategy development
- Advice to Board of Directors
FAQs
Why do workers take risks?
Organisations can't manage risks; however organisations can manage the controls to mitigate risk and recover from risk outcomes.
Risk is like a difficult relative that turns up to a family party - you can't ignore it (as much as you'd like to), so you have four choices: Treat, Transfer, Tolerate or Terminate
Before you decide on any of these you need to set out what your 'risk appetite' is as an organisation. Without clarity for the workers, don't be surprised when people do things leaders don't expect.
I need proactive (leading) indicators. Why are these difficult things to develop?
First of all, there's no such thing as a leading indicator. We think these exist, because we believe there must be some sort of measurement that helps us predict the future. The closest timeliness of a leading indicator are those that measure in-the-moment events (e.g. Uber passenger ratings, air passenger experience at security, etc). What these have in common is that many of these helpful measurements are qualitative, not always quantitive. So we need to recognise that leading/predictive KPIs have a degree of uncertainty, but can also be pretty reliable (e.g. my car fuel gauge shows half-full, so I'm ok to keep driving for the next 20 miles). That should encourage us to try these out, and if they don't work then try something else (i.e. Fail Fast, Learn Fast...!)