Our Team
SAFETY CONSULTANTS WHO BRING OUT YOUR BEST
Hile Group safety consultants are teachers, writers, facilitators, and problem-solvers with experience in public and private sectors. Our diverse background equips us to support a wide variety of performance improvement projects across multiple industries. We’ll work with you to assess your current system for gaps, scope and sequence solutions, and start moving the needle.
Whether partnering with you as a full-service safety consultant or providing interventions to complement those you already have in house, Hile Group will supercharge your efforts with added capacity, fresh eyes, and a proven process for safety culture change.
Julie Hile
Senior Principal + President
Rachel Hile-Broad
Principal + Vice President
Jonathan Seiden
PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT
Erin Duffy Jensen
PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT
Linda Rose
Finance Director
Jane Bethel
Accounting Assistant
Our Mission + Values
solve serious problems for good by meeting people and systems where they’re at and drawing people and systems into transformative change.
Our Core Values
Our History
Since 1991, Hile Group has helped companies transform their safety cultures. From our beginning in the collaborative writing of Safety Rules and Recommended Practices by union and management railroaders, Hile Group safety consultants have brought non-traditional mixes of people together to forge new paths for themselves and their companies.
To us, safety culture is everything from pandemic response and hazard awareness to organizational and individual resilience, continuous learning, physical and mental wellness, morale, and diverse contribution.
DIVERSE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Over the years, our portfolio expanded across industries where machines, muscle, and movement intersect. Our clients have safely provided emergency response for Deepwater Horizon, expanded the Suez Canal, transformed incident reporting and analysis in the largest train yard on the planet, run the oldest family-owned shipyard in the US, and built the second tallest building in The Emerald City.
Along the way, our partnerships with executives, middle managers, and field professionals have led to surprising discoveries and practical applications that protect people and resources alike. It’s a pretty good deal. How often do you win both the Big Hug and the Bottom Line™?
WOMAN-OWNED
Hile Group is proud to be a woman-owned and -led small business headquartered in the heartland: Normal, Illinois.