Overview
This is not another “Fleet Safety 101” session. There are no endless slides – It’s a candid, thoughtful conversation between two industry veterans for professionals who experience the complexity of fleet risk every day.
With rising insurance premiums, shrinking driver availability, retention issues, and data spread across disconnected systems, organizations are under immense pressure to work leaner, safer, and smarter. But here’s the real issue: dashboards don’t drive behavior. And frontline supervisors, the ones closest to the risk, often don’t get the actionable insights and guidance they need at the right time to prevent the accidents and drive cultural change. If they do get the information it is often dated and not actionable in a meaningful way.
In this panel, Bill Spiers brings the insurance industry’s perspectives on the risk of disconnected data and how it impacts liability exposure, risk coverages, and premiums, along with practical insights. Mike Miller offers the operational view, focusing on equipping risk and safety teams with insights from his journey of building processes, culture, and technology from the ground up at two different companies. Together, they’ll explore how concepts like control towers can unify the fleet risk signals and empower actions, from front-line employees, to supervisors, all the way to corporate leadership.
What you’ll take away:
- Why disconnected data fails both safety teams and insurers
- How to give the leaders in the field the right insights without overwhelming them
- What insurers look for in behavior-based fleet risk evaluation
- How to apply control tower thinking to unify risk signals across your fleet
- How data can empower leaders to lead with positive coaching to drive change, accountability and better outcomes
Leave with a clearer path to building a connected, proactive fleet safety program that works across every level of the organization.
Speakers Bios
Strategic Advisor – Enterprise Risk
Rhythm Innovations
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Mike Miller is a seasoned enterprise risk and safety leader with a career spanning retail, manufacturing, logistics, and food production. Before his current role at Rhythm, at Advance Auto Parts, Mike served as a Senior Vice President overseeing several functions during his tenure including Risk Management, EHS, Procurement, Asset Protection and Sustainability. This included overseeing key risk programs, insurance, security, safety, and shrink control across more than 5,000 locations and distribution centers. During the pandemic, he was also responsible for leading all crisis management and business continuity. Prior to that, he led EHS programs across a vast manufacturing and distribution network at Dean Foods, aligning worker and food safety, environmental compliance, and workforce risk reduction under a unified operational model. Mike also worked in complex global supply chain environments at Danaher, Textron, and Texas Instruments. He has degrees in Environmental Science and Policy from Clark University and studied climate change at the Biosphere 2 Center with Columbia University. Mike is on the board of the National Association of EHS Management.
Senior Vice President – Risk Consulting Practice
Lockton
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Bill Spiers brings over three decades of experience in the insurance and risk consulting industry. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, he currently serves as Senior Vice President and Risk Control Consulting Practice Leader at Lockton Companies, the world’s largest privately held insurance brokerage firm. In his role at Lockton, Bill specializes in delivering and coaching clients in effective and sustainable risk management solutions designed to improve efficiency, reduce operating risks and extract expenses. Bill and his team, supporting a diverse clientele, focus on enhancing a safety culture through strong leadership, accountability, and goal oriented strategic planning. His approach is characterized by a deep understanding of industry dynamics and a dedication to providing client-centric solutions.
Bill is a Certified Safety Professional with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Safety and Risk Management from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a frequent speaker as local, Regional, and National Professional Development Conferences. One of his recent professional research and speaking engagements was in Safety For the Aging Workforce.