GSI LEADERSHIP TEAM

Ben Wilson
About Ben
Ben Wilson is the Managing Director of Global Safety Index. Ben brings more than 25 years of senior and executive leadership experience in professional services, operations management, project management and international sales to this role. As the MD of Global Safety Index, Ben is passionate about working with executive leadership teams to understand their current safety performance, culture and leadership capability.
In 2011, Ben established Wilson Consulting Group, which was rebranded to HSE Global in 2019 and has grown to be one of Australia’s premier safety and wellbeing consulting organisations which helps businesses develop the strategies, capabilities and behaviours required to build a high performing safety culture. As Managing Director of Wilson Consulting Group, Ben has successfully assisted over 40 of Australia’s and the world’s leading organisations to achieve a step change in their safety performance, including companies such as Murray Goulburn, Rio Tinto, Repsol, Linfox, Woolworths, Coles Logistics, National Foods, Westpac, Oman Electricity, SP Ausnet, West Coast Energy, CityWide and Powerlink. HSE Global has successfully delivered a significant number of complete cultural HSE transformations across some of the globes leading organisations, which requires involving every level and every business unit within an organisation and achieving impressive performance improvement at each level.
Beginning his career with BHP Billiton, Ben started in engineering and worked across roles in senior operational leadership and international sales for both BHP Billiton and BlueScope Steel for over 12 years. After BlueScope Steel, Ben joined BTS, a publicly listed global strategy consulting firm, as the Managing Director Australasia and Global Practice leader for Safety and Operational Excellence.
Ben has built deep professional experience in assisting complex, global organisations to understand, define and execute strategy to improve their safety performance. This passion for safety stems from a personal experience of a workplace accident within Ben’s own family, and drives Ben’s commitment to ensure that this personal tragedy does not happen to others.
Ben is a highly regarded public speaker, addressing audiences in Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe about high performance safety culture, safety strategy development and execution, and contractor management and safety leadership.
In addition to Ben’s practical experience in safety leadership, he holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong, Master Project Director Certification with the Australian Institute of Project Management and an Associate Diploma in Metals Technology.
Ben resides in Australia with his wife and two young children, and devotes his spare time to his family, friends and enjoying outdoor sports and personal fitness.

Luke Beeston
About Luke
Luke Beeston is the Director of Risk and Innovation for GSI and is responsible for the optimisation, continuous improvement and daily operations of GSI.
Luke has held senior HSE leadership positions for ASX listed organisations as well as large private high-risk companies and has been responsible for transformational change, strategic planning, development of management systems and building high performing safety teams. Luke prides himself on his ability to engage at a board and executive level through to front-line workers and is experienced in working across multiple industries including logistics, waste, electrical, water, ports, construction, major hazard facilities and more.
Beginning his safety career in the UK, Luke managed safety across multiple sites in construction and civil engineering where he worked on projects for some of the largest top tier companies. In 2010, Luke relocated to Australia with his wife where he has held senior HSE management roles in waste management and logistics and worked with companies such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Coles, Woolworths, Viva Energy, Anglo American and Orica, where he has supported significant and sustainable improvements in safety culture and performance.
Luke has also been actively involved in managing complex and major incident investigations, including coaching organisations on how to respond to and manage regulatory relationships. This experience has driven the focus on control management and building safety leadership and culture to ensure companies are keeping their people safe, both physically and mentally.
Luke resides in Sydney, Australia with his wife and son, and devotes his spare time to his family and friends, and professional development.