Seeing a risk is not the same as stopping it.
PowerSkillsAi measures and builds intervention capability: the ability of people and organisations to recognise risk, speak up, act and follow through when it matters.
HUMAN PERFORMANCE FOR MINING
MORE HUMAN. MORE POWER.
Most people already know the right thing to do
THE GAP
Organisations have spent decades building knowledge: policies, codes of conduct, training, compliance modules and leadership programs. Awareness is rarely what is missing.
What is missing sits between recognising a problem and doing something about it. A decision is rushed. A concern is dismissed. A team quietly normalises a workaround. People see it, and nobody steps in early enough to matter.
AI can guarantee knowledge. It cannot guarantee action. The faster our systems become, the more the human ability to interrupt them matters.
Five questions sit between seeing a risk and acting on it.
Effective intervention is a pathway of connected capabilities. The ICI™ shows where along that pathway people and teams break down, so development can be targeted instead of one-size-fits-all.
THE INTERVENTION CAPABILITY INDEX™
Measure where it breaks. Build what is missing.
We look beyond what people know to how they read a situation, exercise judgement, make critical decisions, raise concerns and turn those decisions into action — the human capabilities essential to safe, effective mining operations.
HOW WE WORK
Measure
Simulate
Learn
Practice
ICI™ diagnostics set a baseline and a follow-up, with a de-identified dashboard showing where capability breaks down across your workforce and organisation.
Immersive workplace scenarios put people inside the moment a risk emerges, where recognition and judgement can be observed.
Facilitated workshops and short, focused micromodules help your workforce apply learning in their role straight away.
Ongoing conversation practice with Amanda, our AI-enabled coach, develops conversation confidence under real pressure. A de-identified questions to Amanda dashboard means leaders understand what is concerning their people and pivot workforce strategies faster.
Individual capability
+ organisational conditions
= effective intervention
Capability alone is not enough. We separate individual gaps from organisational barriers such as leadership responses, workplace norms and operational pressure, so you can see which processes or practices need to change for people to speak up and act.
Across mining and resources, organisations have made genuine commitments to safety, inclusion and culture. Yet translating these commitments into sustained behavioural change remains a challenge, often because the human capabilities and organisational conditions needed to turn intentions into action are overlooked.
With close to 30 years of experience across mining operations, operational improvement, digital transformation and workforce change, Lina Gillespie observed a consistent pattern: technical systems advancing faster than the human capability to make critical decisions and act effectively within them.
This became particularly evident when Lina was responsible for developing a 60-day response plan following two mining fatalities. The experience reinforced the complexity of translating safety systems and procedures into effective frontline decisions and intervention.
It raised a fundamental question: How do we equip people with the judgement, confidence and capability to recognise risk, challenge decisions and intervene before something goes wrong?
In 2025, Lina founded PowerSkillsAi to address this gap.
Built on decades of operational experience, PowerSkillsAi measures and develops the human capabilities essential to safe, productive mining operations helping people and organisations navigate complexity, exercise critical judgement and take effective action when it matters.
Using the latest in AI and new thinking, PowerSkillsAi is building the human capability needed for the future. Because knowing what to do and having the capability to act are two very different things.
Using the latest in AI and new thinking, PowerSkillsAi is building the human capability needed for the future. Because knowing what to do and having the capability to act are two very different things.
OUR FOUNDER
“Knowledge is no longer the scarce resource. The scarce resource is the person willing and able to intervene.”
Lina Gillespie Founder and CEO, PowerSkillsAi
