SENTINEL GRID RESILIENCE
SENTINEL GRID RESILIENCE
Ohio · Critical Infrastructure Advisory
We help power and utility operators apply the same reliability principles used by nuclear technicians, air traffic controllers, and astronauts — so safety-critical work stays safe under real-world pressure.
Cyber threats, climate stress, aging assets, and a shifting regulatory landscape are converging on power and utility operators at once. In Ohio specifically, demand is expected to grow 56% by 2043 — driven largely by data centers — while capacity auctions are already hitting price caps.
Rapid demand growth. By June 2026, the regional grid operator may face reliability issues during extreme weather as data-center and industrial load accelerates.
Soaring capacity costs. Auctions for 2026–2027 have hit maximum price caps, pushing costs onto customers.
Regulatory shift. House Bill 15 moves toward free-market reforms — eliminating most Electric Security Plan add-ons and adjusting tax treatment to encourage transmission investment.
Our work spans eight proven high-reliability solution domains, organized here into five practice pillars we bring to every engagement.
Risk-based training for your most complex, at-risk operations, paired with human-factors work that helps frontline teams recognize and manage error before it becomes an incident.
Careful, centre-led management of changes that touch frontline workers — plus standardized worker compliance and performance across every workcentre.
Operational strategies and leadership competencies developed and embedded so they actively support — and inform — high reliability operations.
The culture and mechanisms for proactive, rapid continuous improvement of the core operating processes and procedures your teams rely on daily.
Fair and just culture that unlocks transparent, near-miss reporting — reinforced by operational communications drawn from military and emergency-services practice.
Five principles that move a team from reactive to proactive. Select a letter to see how it works.
A consulting team with a mission to empower high reliability organizations to create sustainable changes that lead to long-term operational resilience.
Sean served as a U.S. Navy, aircraft carrier-based, fast jet pilot and field grade officer, formerly responsible for planning and executing all combat strike operations of an entire carrier air wing — 70 aircraft and 1,500 personnel. A qualified F/A-18E/F Super Hornet instructor pilot, he trained aviators to safely operate and tactically employ an $80M aircraft at the edges of its flight envelope. With 25+ years leading high reliability organizations, Sean helps clients cost-effectively align business operations to the principles demonstrated by nuclear power plant technicians, air traffic controllers, and astronauts.
Emily has built her career helping organizations achieve operational excellence, with a focus on human performance and organizational resilience. As a former manager at KPMG, she delivered projects that transformed safety and operational performance for major client organizations across Australia — notably leading training that introduced human factors and crew resource management concepts to blue-collar workforces outside aviation, with a lasting, measurable reduction in human-error incidents.
Whether you're evaluating training gaps, planning a standardization push, or just want a second set of eyes on your reliability posture — we're glad to start with a conversation.