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
“…holding a person accountable for safe performance is truly the greatest gift you could give, the ultimate demonstration of care and concern for their well-being. It’s much kinder, smarter, and easier than skipping the awkward conversation and having to make the phone call home after a life-altering fall.”
A cook, gardener, workout enthusiast, partner, mom, and true-blue Northern Wisconsin native, Julie thinks systems. She is constantly on the hunt for how parts, processes, and people come together to make good things happen. She combines her small-town roots and transformative ideas to help organizations achieve transformative, lasting change.
As Founder and President of Hile Group, Julie is warm, honest, and frank in her approach—and serious about helping organizations across a variety of industries meet and exceed their safe-operations goals. Deep-dive data analysis roots her efforts in what deserves repeating and what needs work, ensuring targeted changes are the right changes, measured and assessed for impact.
Having cut her safety-consultant teeth on collaborative rule writing projects for Class I railroads, Julie champions the phrase “The Big Hug and the Bottom Line,” Hile Group’s unique approach to culture change. When employees and management work together to get safety right, all the other pieces of operational efficiency and profitability follow.
Julie’s passion for community and culture change extends to the industries Hile Group serves, from contributions to Transportation Research Board research in safety culture to leadership on the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Board of Directors and Safety Commission. Local participation includes facilitation of municipal initiatives, such as facilitation of the Town of Normal’s Sustainability Plan, and public transit advocacy on the Connect Transit Board.
Rachel Hile-Broad
Principal + Vice President
Rachel Hile-Broad sees safety as an elemental part of human thriving and as a tool to unite people across a spectrum of experiences. Simply put, it’s easy to agree on the importance of people returning home safe at the end of the day. In her role as a Performance Consultant at Hile Group, Rachel builds from this common ground.
Since joining Hile Group in 2019, Rachel has sought to fine-tune the Hile Group model in legacy sectors while simultaneously looking for opportunities to leverage its impact in spaces beyond heavy industry, broadening the understanding of what it means to come home happy, healthy, and whole. Rachel works in a variety of sectors, engaging with diverse partners at every level of an organization. Her deep commitment to collaborative processes creates space for just and equitable outcomes, the organic outputs of systems designed “by and for” the people who work within them.
Rachel firmly believes that working towards common goals is one of the simplest and most effective ways to bring people together. By rooting systems in common good and mutual benefit, Rachel helps make more space for people to be human together.
Born and raised in Normal, Rachel began her career working in advocacy in Chicago and in the Bronx. She’s been glad to return to home, where she’s leaned into values of localism and community engagement.
Jonathan Seiden
Performance COnsultant
Jonathan Seiden believes meaningful transformations begin with people. He is dedicated to the idea that the best institutional changes happen when individuals muster the courage to flip their perspectives and take bold action. Drawing on his background in criminal justice reform, Jonathan works to affect cultural transformation by empowering people to lead by example through systemic change.
As a Performance Consultant at Hile Group, Jonathan works with clients across a spectrum of trades and is motivated by the ways in which the principles of safety culture can be applied to practices beyond heavy industry. Since joining Hile Group in 2019, Jonathan has applied himself to expanding the firm’s field of practice and broadening the concept of safety in the workplace and at home.
Jonathan has brought his direct and deeply collaborative approach to a variety of projects; From safety data systems development to strategic planning for nonprofit organizations to the Go:Safe Action Plan, a county government initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities.
A native New Yorker, Jonathan is embracing the slower pace and community feel of his adopted Midwestern home of Normal, Illinois.
Erin Duffy Jensen
Performance COnsultant
“I love discovering the human story hidden within safety data.”
With a background in psychology, Erin approaches her work as a Performance Consultant and Data Analyst at Hile Group by integrating the human element into the statistics she evaluates. Recognizing analytics as an important facet of safety culture, she harnesses the power of data by detecting meaningful connections. Erin realizes her work goes far beyond the numbers, and she revels in seeing incident rates trend down, ultimately translating into many more people going home safe and whole to their families every day.
Erin is also the steward of HG SafeLyncs™, an online platform that allows partners access to Hile Group’s Multiple Cause Incident Analysis process. By pulling back the focus to not only address the root causes of an incident but also the environment in which it occurred, partners get a look at the big picture, positioning them for sustainable systemic change.
As an Illinois native, Erin is very plugged into the local community, using her time and talents as a member of Rotary and as a fierce advocate and volunteer for local dog rescues.
Linda Rose
Finance Director
Linda oversees all financial operations at Hile Group, monitoring industry standards, and ensuring that accounting systems are effective and efficient. She guides the company in creating benchmarks and strategies for overall company performance. Her background includes financial and administrative experience in various professional services industries including architecture, marketing, technology, venture capital, real estate, and not-for-profit.
Linda is a member of Financial Executives International and Financial Executives of New England.
Linda enjoys spending time with family and friends. She divides her time between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Downeast, Maine where she keeps busy cooking, kayaking, hiking, biking, and golfing.