Human Judgement, Decision Making and Risk - How to Improve your Observations and Conversation Skills, Pathways to Cultural Intelligence

Nippin Anand 
Instructor: Nippin Anand 
Date: Wednesday June 10, 2026
Time:

10:30 AM PDT | 01:30 PM EDT

Duration: 60 Minutes
Webinar Id: 26742

Price Details

Live Webinar
$150. One Attendee
$290. Unlimited Attendees
Recorded Webinar
$190. One Attendee
$390. Unlimited Attendees
Combo Offers   (Live + Recorded)
$289 $340   One Attendee
$599 $680   Unlimited Attendees

Unlimited Attendees: Any number of participants

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months (Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

Human judgement and decision-making play a crucial role in how risks are perceived and managed. Influenced by experience, biases, and context, our decisions can shape outcomes positively or negatively. Understanding these factors helps improve risk awareness, leading to more informed, balanced, and effective decision-making.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • How biases influence our observations and how to improve your observation skills
  • The limitations of checklists and procedures when auditing/investigating/interviewing people 
  • Understanding heuristics (fast and efficient thinking) to engage with experts
  • How perception works (spotting overconfidence and under-confidence, the risk of people working alone, people
  • under stress, cross checking and supervision skills)         
  • Recognising change in high-risk operations
  • How to listen to the cues of risk in our language

Who Will Benefit:

  • All

Speaker Profile
Dr. Nippin Anand is the Founder and CEO of Novellus Solutions, a consultancy specializing in human-centered approaches to learning, risk and social decision making. He is a former master mariner and a UN subject matter expert with an MSc in Economics and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Anthropology. Nippin brings a Transdisciplinary lens to the challenges of work and organising spanning: the humanities, social psychology, mythology, semiotics, anthropology and philosophy. After experiencing a near collision at sea, Nippin developed a lifelong passion for event investigation, focusing on how failure can be turned into opportunities for learning and change. He has a particular focus on: the psychology of goal setting, motivation, perception and unconscious decisions under pressure.

As a former subject matter expert at DNV, Nippin asks challenging questions about the role of ethics, care, helping, moral meaning, emotions and trauma in the discourse of risk and safety. In so doing, he seeks to help the industry to become more person-centric and ethical when it comes to risk management.

Dr Anand is the author of four books ‘Are We Learning from Accidents?’, 51 Stories in Culture, Three Semiotic Walks, and SEEK Investigations. He is also the host of the podcast Embracing Differences, and a frequent writer, well known for transforming complex idea into practical insights accessible and actionable for safety critical industries. At Novellus, Nippin and his team apply visual (semiotic) tools to help organizations learn from events, improve decision making and achieve culture change.

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