Safety, culture & performance
Simplifying safety. Strengthening performance.
OrgTree is a safety consultancy founded by Andy Barker, helping organisations build the cultural conditions where people contribute, risks surface early and performance improves.
Safety, culture & performance
Simplifying safety. Strengthening performance.
OrgTree is a safety consultancy founded by Andy Barker, helping organisations build the cultural conditions where people contribute, risks surface early and performance improves.
The OrgTree difference
Practical, not theoretical
Real-world experience applied to real organisational challenges.
Culture-led, performance-focused
Improving safety by strengthening trust, contribution and ownership.
Bespoke to your organisation
No generic programmes. We start where the real challenge is.
Designed for lasting change
Embedding habits, systems and leadership behaviours that continue.
We help organisations when…
Safety effort is not becoming performance.
Teams struggle to solve problems across departments.
Leaders want people to engage, speak up and contribute.
Metrics are not driving meaningful change.
Culture feels disconnected from strategy.
The performance system
Seven conditions. One operating system.
The Community Operating System is the living system behind performance. These seven conditions decide whether people contribute, from roots of trust to the fruit of performance. Click any one to see where your organisation stands.
Years of experience leading safety & operational transformation
Organisations transformed
Continents reached, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America
Average profit uplift (CFO-verified)
Proven thinking. Practical results.
30+ years
Leading safety, risk and operational transformation.
Published author
Of The Invisible Script, exploring how hidden narratives shape behaviour.
International speaker
Keynotes and conferences across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America.
Deep sector experience
Across complex, high-risk and high-performing environments.
Proven transformation
Across a 28-organisation programme, fatal accidents fell to zero and stayed there.
Case study
The safety transformation that wasn't about safety.
Across a 28-organisation programme in the Middle East, Andy did not roll out a new safety programme. He changed the questions leaders asked, and built the conditions where people could contribute. Sharing led to help. Contribution grew. Capability followed. Performance improved.
When leaders asked better questions, the organisation gave better answers.
Measured outcomes
- 15 → 0 Fatal accidents a year, down to zero, sustained for two years and beyond.
- Zero Workplace suicides, eliminated.
- +25% Profit uplift, verified by the CFO.
A fuller written case study is on its way.
The book
The Invisible Script
Andy's book on the hidden stories inside every organisation, the unwritten scripts that quietly shape what people contribute. It is a guide to making those stories visible, so leaders can change what people believe will happen next.
Buy direct + PDF download coming soon.
What clients say
Trusted where it matters most.
At first, I was very sceptical. Traditionally 'safety people' don't always understand how businesses really work, and importantly how to transform culture in a way that genuinely adds value. I watched an engagement strategy yield significant business benefits, proving the link we all knew intuitively: that a safe culture is good for business.
Our entire organisation was significantly influenced to shift their thinking to a growth mindset. People at all levels now willingly take ownership and are supported by each other. Our clients now look at us as industry leaders and ask us to help our competitors!
An excellent guide and mentor. We all think differently now, and the whole organisation thinks and acts as a whole. Truly powerful.
I trust Andy. He has uncovered some universal truths about people and leveraged these worldwide to enhance employee experience, profitability, safety and overall performance. He backs them up with data.
$20M loss to $350k profit
Andy Barker, on the business impact of one engagement: took a company losing $20M per year to $350k profit in 2 years.
Ready to turn safety effort into performance?
Start a conversation about where your organisation is now, and where change could begin.