The Georgia Safety Conference is proud to welcome Kim Greene as a featured keynote speaker for the 2026 conference.

With more than three decades of leadership in the energy and utility sector, Kim brings a powerful perspective on how organizations lead safety in complex, high-risk environments. As CEO of Georgia Power, she oversees operations serving more than 2.7 million customers across the state while guiding one of Georgia’s largest workforces through critical operational and safety challenges.

Kim is widely recognized for advancing safety beyond traditional compliance models. Her leadership emphasizes human-centered decision making, risk awareness, and systems that encourage learning rather than simply measuring outcomes. These ideas are increasingly shaping conversations around serious injury and fatality prevention across industries.

Drawing from real-world leadership experience, Kim will share insights on how organizations can strengthen accountability, elevate safety culture, and rethink how meaningful safety performance is measured.

Attendees can expect a candid and thought-provoking keynote that challenges assumptions and inspires new ways to lead safety.

Leo Mazzone is widely recognized for his decades‑long career helping teams perform at the highest level under constant pressure. Known for his unconventional yet disciplined leadership approach, Leo fostered environments built on trust, consistency, and long‑term performance rather than short‑term fixes.

In this Thursday morning Fireside Chat, Leo will share candid insights on leadership, accountability, and sustaining performance when expectations are high and failure carries real consequences. His perspective resonates strongly with health and safety professionals who balance operational demands with the responsibility to protect people in complex, high‑risk environments.

Through real‑world stories and open conversation, Leo challenges traditional assumptions about discipline, fatigue, and control — inviting leaders to consider how trust, clarity, and respect for human limits contribute to safer, more resilient organizations. Rather than focusing on rigid rules alone, his message highlights the importance of leadership behaviors, decision‑making under pressure, and creating systems that support people at their best over time.

Health and safety leaders will leave this fireside chat with practical insights they can apply to their own teams — reinforcing that sustainable safety performance is built through leadership, culture, and a deep understanding of how people actually perform in the real world.

Retired Fire Chief Rebecca Strobl brings a frontline leadership perspective rooted in public safety, accountability, and decision‑making where outcomes matter and margins for error are small. Serving in a senior leadership role in Cherokee County, she has spent her career navigating the realities of operational risk, crisis response, and the responsibility of protecting both people and the communities they serve.

In this Lunch Keynote session, Chief Strobl will share practical insights on leadership in high‑consequence environments — where policies, procedures, and training must hold up under real‑world conditions. Her experience offers a compelling parallel for health and safety professionals tasked with managing risk, responding to unplanned events, and leading teams through uncertainty.

Chief Strobl will explore themes of accountability, communication, and trust — particularly how leaders create cultures where people speak up, respond effectively under pressure, and learn from incidents without losing sight of personal responsibility. Her perspective reinforces the importance of leadership presence, consistency, and clarity when safeguarding people in dynamic and unpredictable settings.

Health and safety leaders will gain valuable takeaways from her presentation, including lessons on leading through complexity, balancing enforcement with engagement, and building resilient systems that support both performance and public trust.