The Future is What Works
For countless years, environmental, health & safety leaders have struggled to find, validate,
and evolve promising practices and solutions, facing:
Proprietary or custom-developed tools
Black box data & algorithms
Concepts gated behind consulting paywalls
In short, the challenges associated with truly understanding What Works in different
contexts, cultures, and communities have held back one of the noblest efforts in industry.
The What Works Institute was founded on the premise that organizations, systems, and people
are at their best when they:
Collaborate deeply
Exchange ideas freely
Test assumptions rigorously, and
Aggregate insights plainly.
No doing it alone. No window dressing. No excuses. Just the simple pursuit of excellence.
About the What Works Model
The What Works Institute stands on the shoulders of pioneers in EHS, from early visionaries like Crystal Eastman to the thinkers who evolved our field from remedial, luck-based models to more nuanced understandings of risk.
Our model embraces that what worked yesterday may not tomorrow. Using a proprietary research methodology and a unique learning community approach, we test, validate, iterate, enrich and scale for sustainable change.
Our model also stands upon the decades of effort the What Works team has collectively put forward in the field of EHS, including in-field execution and corporate leadership, innovative research program design, world-class coalition management, high-touch experience development, and collaborative efforts to mobilize organizations.
We have dedicated our careers to helping organizations achieve and sustain excellence. Now, we aim to leverage the latest tools, thinking, and advancements to supercharge this work and deliver it to leaders with more on their plates than ever, in ways that are digestible, actionable, thought-provoking - and fun.
