My research solves the hard problems for your team.
My work draws from over 40 years of research into Resilience Engineering, Naturalistic Decision Making, Cognitive Systems Engineering, and Human Performance improvement. Using proven research techniques, I can identify the sources of your organization’s toughest problems.
I bring deep expertise in applying evidence-based and sustainable performance improvement innovations. Working collaboratively with your team, I build flexible, adaptive solutions to increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and strengthen teamwork.
Learn MoreAfter 15 years working in safety and risk management in natural resource industries in Canada, Dr. Laura Maguire began studying new ways of supporting front-line practitioners in high hazard work and in organizing and designing work systems to enable safe, productive operations through the lens of resilience engineering. She brings a grounded and adaptable approach to studying users that helps define clear problem statements and facilitates collaborative work across multiple stakeholder groups to find integrated process and product solutions.
About Laura
This study examines the formal descriptions of how work is conducted in a Canadian ski operation and the ‘as practiced' cognitive strategies employed by expert practitioners to success-fully manage avalanche hazards in practice within a complex and changing mountain environment.
Oct 1 2018
This article will describe the conditions that makes snow safety difficult while drawing comparisons to highly skilled practice in other high risk/high consequence domains and then make a pitch for using this perspective to explore some useful avenues for making progress on accident prevention.
Apr 1 2019
Healthcare research can be challenging. In a complex, detail rich and dynamic environment like an intensive care unit it is easy for outside observers to miss important nuances to how healthcare personnel manage the demands of their work.
Mar 1 2019