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For over 35 years, Cathy has held several senior leadership positions in Safety, health, environment, product and manufacturing quality areas, at several corporations, including AlliedSignal and American Standard. Most recently as the Corporate VP, Safety & Occupational Health at American Standard, she led a strategy throughout 500+ manufacturing, sales and service operations globally, to create a global safety culture and drive for risk prevention for 62,000 employees. Results included 90%+ reduction in incident rates, prevention of 22,000 injuries and cost avoidance of $152 MM direct costs in 7 years, global pandemic preparedness and wellness programs and documented improvements. Cathy received a JD in Law, a MS in Environmental Toxicology (NYU Institute of Environmental Medicine) & a BS in Environmental Science & Engineering. Cathy holds eight certifications in Safety, Six Sigma, Quality and CSR. She was awarded the 2010-2011 NAPW’s Woman of the Year Award in Safety & Wellness, and One of the Top 100 Women in Safety from the American Society of Safety Engineers. As the President of Breakthrough Results for the last eight years, her firm specializes in leading companies to achieve superior, sustainable safety cultures and business value results. A series of practical guide books, entitled 7-Step Roadmap for a Safety Culture that Works and Lasts... Guaranteed! will be launched in October 2016. Cathy’s firm strategically targets improvements in leadership drive, associate engagement, S&H alignment and integration within the business, S&H talent as business partners and risk prevention processes. Practical tools and a strategic roadmap, education and safety programs guide the cultural transformation, which also links with sustainability goals. Cathy is also the host and executive producer of Safety Breakthrough Talk Radio, a unique talk radio show that airs on I-Tunes News & Talk Radio.