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Inc. Magazine has a long history of highlighting a variety of inspiring entrepreneurs in its portfolio. This time around, we are bringing our worldwide readership panel another great business leader’s journey. Jeff Akers, CEO of Predictive Safety, is a global leader in the “Internet of Things” business analytics and artificial intelligence sectors. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in the information technology solutions, systems integration, and professional services sectors.
He has extensive knowledge of both organic growth and mergers and acquisitions as methods of value creation. He significantly contributes to Predictive Safety’s ambitious expansion goals with his understanding of technology and how it can help decision-making and provide real business benefits.
Jeff Akers has worked in the solutions industry his entire career. His first job was with AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where he advanced through the ranks and was ultimately in charge of all of their global solutions and services operations. His history and education have all been built on this.
He developed an amazing professional services business in the engineering and geospatial analytics markets while working for Jacobs/CH2MHILL, where he also began studying business analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). His experience in executive sales and services inside larger firms, along with his knowledge of business management and industrial analytics, have made him the ideal candidate for this CEO position.
Predictive Safety: A Glance
Predictive Safety is the global leader in predictive fatigue management and impairment detection. They provide the PRISM Fatigue Management System and the AlertMeter® and are based in Denver, Colorado. PRISM uses scientifically validated circadian science to accurately assess and forecast the danger of fatigue risk within your workforce. The leading impairment detection instrument, the AlertMeter®, is used to make sure that your personnel is consistently cognitively fit-for-work. Their goal is to bring this technology directly to the $8 billion environmental, health, and safety sector, and they are currently establishing themselves as market leaders.
The modifications that Jeff has made to Predictive Safety simply build on the excellent personnel and cutting-edge technology the business already possessed. He strongly supports having a high-performing team while also allowing individuals to contribute their unique qualities to the work they do each day and the clients they value.
“I was really excited to join the team and help bring out the best in all team members and enhance their technology to maintain our position as the global leader in fatigue management and impairment detection. “We have a strong team, unique technology, and potential within the environmental, health, and safety industry”, the visionary leader asserted.
Healthy work culture
“The great thing about this company and my position is that once I came to Predictive Safety, it was obvious to me that many of the people had the professional expertise to perform at a much higher level, and we just needed the environment, support, and resources to take their performance to the next level. I am fortunate to work with the best team of recruiting experts in the industry who are dedicated to our daily success for customers and the business”, shared Jeff when asked about the work culture of the company.
The Key Hurdles Along the Way
Predictive Safety’s solutions have dramatically changed how the industry manages safety, risk, employee fatigue and cognitive fitness problems. Especially with the laws changing and new types of allowable legal drugs, Jeff and his team are bringing new technology to older styles of managing the environment, health, and safety when it comes to drug/alcohol testing. This means that management can truly understand their employees and financial risks while being able to mitigate them before they occur.
Akers added… “Companies often inspect or evaluate the quality of their equipment, and here is where our technology can help because we can evaluate the condition of their most precious asset. Their People!”
Predictive Safety has proven that the technology allows for 30–40% fewer safety incidents once implemented, and there are some great clients that testify to this. They are leading the charge and creating the market, and as the new market leader, they are marching higher every day to demonstrate to new clients looking for reduced risk.
To be Remembered by Peers and Entrepreneurs
“I cherish working with and assisting in the growth of high-performing teams of individuals who are bringing new innovations to numerous vertical industries,” said Jeff. For the next generation of industry leaders, I want to be remembered as someone who can always translate the technical potential of technological solutions into practical business solutions that reduce ongoing risk and save money and lives.
Jeff’s Unique Leadership Approach
Customer happiness and knowledge of this new capability that Predictive Safety gives to the globe are the leadership approach. Their history is extensive, and the market for fatigue prediction, management, and impairment detection in numerous industries and vertical markets is 100 times larger than what we have so far been able to show. When they continue to expand as they have over the past year, the future is exciting for the team, and all boats will rise.
Painting the Future Canvas: Professional and Personal Level
As CEO, Jeff wishes predictive safety to be known professionally as a new paradigm in the safety industry, where any company’s leadership can save lives, save money, and reduce risk every day.
Personally, he wishes every employee at Predictive Safety could be a part of this market’s new growth sector and have the opportunity to take the reins of this rapidly emerging sector. That thrills him and enables him to wake up each day enthused about this opportunity.
Jeff wraps up the discussion with the concluding note, “It always comes down to people, clients, technology, and having passion about what we do every day. I am honored to have this opportunity within this new paradigm in the market, and we are already seeing our leadership being rewarded by our clients and our hyper growth.”
