3 Reasons Your Team Should Attend the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit

Why is the Global TapRooT® Summit so Valuable to You and Your Team?
Because your team needs to:
- Learn new ideas to improve performance.
- Benchmark your programs against the best (from your industry and others).
- Expand their professional network.
- Sharpen their skills.
Attending the Summit can help you save lives, become a high-reliability organization, avoid costly quality problems, reduce equipment downtime, and improve human performance.
Read on for the three reasons that the TapRooT® Summit is the premier opportunity for those interested in improving performance.
First Reason to Attend
First, in planning each Global TapRooT® Summit, we focus on the challenges that you and your team have and the improvements you need to make. How? We teach root cause analysis to the world’s leading companies, and this exposure with global leaders make TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Instructors premier “knowledge-brokers.” We use the knowledge gained to design the Global TapRooT® Summit so that the Summit addresses attendees biggest challenges. The Summit helps you solve your problems — big and small.
Here are a few examples of the 40+ sessions in the eight Best Practice Sharing Tracks that will help you solve problems and learn best practices:
- Investigation & RCA Best Practices Roundtable – Facilitated by Brian Tink, Joel Solomon, and Pat Fortune
- From Stress to Success: Fostering Psychological Safety in the Workplace – Barb Carr
- Using AI to Improve Safety – Josh West
- Procedure Writing and Use for High-Reliability – Amy Souders
- Fatigue and Human Error – Bill Davis
- Peer Reviews and Inspections for High Compliance – Mark Paradies, Gard Clark, Ken Reed, and Justin Clark
- Taking Learning Teams to the Next Level – Alex Paradies
- How to Mine Predictive Diamonds From Your Data Mountain – Kevin McManus
- Roundtable to Share Ideas to Achieve High Reliability and Performance – Mark Olson, Randy Creek, Justin Clark, and Gard Clark
Plus, there are five motivating, informative Keynote Speakers…

Our closing Keynote Speaker is Colonel Kim “Kiler Chick” Campbell, a retired Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot who received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Kim is the author of the bestselling book Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot’s Lessons on Leading with Courage and will be sharing her story and lessons learned. Hear her speak from 11-12 on Friday, October 3. Don’t miss her talk and the chance to thank her for her service.
Second Reason to Attend
Second, we make networking FUN! The Summit is the BEST networking/benchmarking event you can attend. Meet people from industry-leading companies, performance-improvement experts, and our knowledgeable TapRooT® Instructors from around the world.

Opportunities to network include:
- The Name Game
- The Wednesday night reception
- All of the roundtable discussions
- Breakfast and Lunch roundtables
- Networking breaks
- Side meetings arranged via the Whova Ap
You will find that TapRooT® Summit Attendees and Speakers are approachable and friendly, willing to share best practices and benchmark their improvement efforts with yours.

Third Reason to Attend
Third, TapRooT® Users share their Success Stories as part of the Summit. Browse the Summit Schedule and see the many sessions that address issues that you and your team face. Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit to learn new best practices to improve performance at your company.

Summit: Guarantee
This guarantee is the reason that you can feel assured that attending the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit is worth your time.

Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success (improvement ideas). If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials, and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee.
This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance — and that of your whole organization — to the next level.
When and Where is the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit?
The Summit is coming up quickly! The 11 optional pre-Summit Courses are on September 29-30. The Summit is on October 1-3. They are being held at the Knoxville Convention Center, located between downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, and the University of Tennessee campus.

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