CALIS Performance:
Trust Amplifiers for High-Hazard Industries
At CALIS Performance, our core values are foundational to every aspect of our operations and interactions with clients. These values shape our company culture, guide our decision-making, and ensure we remain committed to our mission of driving change and elevating performance.
Integrity:
We uphold the highest standards of honesty and ethical conduct in all our services, fostering trust and transparency with our clients.
Collaboration:
We believe in the power of teamwork and actively partner with clients, stakeholders, and our internal team to achieve shared success and innovation.
Care:
We genuinely care about the well-being of our team and our clients, focusing on creating solutions that promote a safe and positive work environment.
Adaptability:
In a constantly evolving world, we are committed to flexibility and responsiveness, enabling us to meet the unique needs of each client while embracing continuous improvement.
Organizations where our seniors partners have worked around the globe
About CALIS Performance:
Amplifying trust into a company asset.
Born from the field, not a lab.
CALIS was formed by senior partners who first worked together in 2022, later reuniting on high-hazard operations in South Africa. What connected them wasn’t a slogan; it was a shared instinct to leave places steadier than we found them—and to do it in ways crews respect and leaders can stand behind.
From ideas to a way of working.
By late 2024, the partnership clicked into gear. We compared notes from rigs, plants, and control rooms and built a simple truth into our methodology: trust isn’t a workshop—it’s a way of working.
The CALIS 4E Trust Model
We use a repeatable frame that adapts to the realities of each client:
- Engage — see the work as it is, agree what “good” looks like.
- Enable — make the right way the easy way.
- Empower — let crews own it and leaders coach it.
- Endure — lock in what holds under pressure.
It’s a loop, not a ladder. We enter where the context demands and cycle as conditions change.
What We Stand For
Trust at the centre.
Our values—Integrity, Collaboration, Care, Adaptability are filters for decisions: Will this hold up on shift? Does it travel across sites? Does it preserve dignity? If not, we don’t ship it.
What We Saw in High-Hazard Work
Across front lines and boardrooms, people spoke about the same thing in different words. Trust felt fragile in the moments between procedures—handovers, meetings, supervision, onboarding. Not because talent, kit, or rules were lacking, but because everyday conduct drifted under pressure.
We built CALIS to amplify trust in those moments. When organisations put real effort into how people actually work together—inside existing procedures—performance steadies and safety improves over time.
A Note to Leaders
High-hazard industries are full of exceptional technical leaders. Many were promoted for skill and experience, then asked to create high-trust environments with little support. CALiS exists to make that demand practical: one language from board to field, one way of working that sticks.
CALIS: Trust Amplifiers for High-Hazard Operations
Make the right way the easy way. Let it endure.
39
years of combined experience in high-hazard operations
10
High-hazard sectors we understand
25
active in countries worldwide
High Hazard Industry Performance Specialists
CALIS works where the stakes are highest — energy, infrastructure, resources, and industries where failure is not theoretical. Our role is to embed systems of trust that hold under pressure and scale across the enterprise.
Oil & Gas
Mining
Logistics
Petrochemicals
Maritime
Construction
Utilities
Rail Transportation
Alex Siedschlag - Senior Partner
We understand high-hazard operations because we have hands-on experience in the field.
“Alex was there every step of the way and brought my vision further than I could have imagined!”
Josh MargolisFounder of DAF
Alexandro (Alex) is a results-oriented Performance Coach, safety professional, and the Founder of CALIS Performance. Based in South Brazil, he brings over 15 years of specialized experience in high-hazard industries, including oil and gas, mining, and maritime operations.
He is an expert in safety coaching, leadership development, and the implementation of human factors programs, guiding organizations worldwide toward sustainable cultural transformations and enhanced safety performance. Alex has a strong track record of providing tailored coaching and mentoring to supervisors, middle management, and senior executives embarking on organizational culture change.
After years of delivering impactful results as an associate for major consulting firms, Alex founded CALIS Performance with Colin to offer a leading-edge organizational and personal development service. His hands-on experience is fortified by an MBA in HSE and Human Factors, as well as international certifications from NEBOSH and IOSH. As a certified Lumina Spark Practitioner, he leverages psychometric insights to optimize team dynamics and leadership effectiveness.
Outside of his professional life, Alex is a dedicated husband, a father of two, and an avid surfer who draws inspiration from the ocean.
Colin is a highly accomplished coaching and mentoring professional and the Co-Founder of CALIS Performance. With over two decades of specialized experience, he partners with leaders in high-hazard industries—including oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and tunnelling—to enhance safety culture and organizational effectiveness.
A certified Lumina Spark and EQi 2.0 Practitioner, Colin excels at leveraging advanced psychometric tools to foster emotional intelligence and self-awareness. His expertise is grounded in a deep understanding of international health and safety legislation, which he has applied successfully to major international projects, guiding organizations toward greater cultural maturity and demonstrably safer practices.
Colin's approach, honed through 12 years of successful associate work before co-founding CALIS with Alexandro, is squarely focused on turning intent into action. He holds professional diplomas in Business and Life Coaching, Coaching and Mentoring Leaders, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Colin is now based in Surin, Thailand, where he uses his own passion for navigation as a keen motorcyclist to explore the region.
Colin Christie - Senior Partner
We understand high-hazard operations because we have hands-on experience in the field.
“Through Colin's coaching on the EQ-i leadership training, I feel I have improved both personally and professionally. He is very good at allowing you to work out the next steps for yourself, which helps you get a better understanding, improve, and move forward positively. I'm grateful for his support.”
Zoe CooperEnvironment Officer - AngloAmerican
Our Vision
To be recognized as the trusted partner for organizations seeking to elevate their performance through innovative coaching solutions. Over the next five years, we aspire to expand our reach globally, establish ourselves as thought leaders in the domain of organizational culture and human performance, and create a comprehensive platform that transforms the way high-hazard industries approach leadership and employee engagement.
Places We’ve Worked
Our Mission
Our mission at CALiS Performance is to facilitate transformational changes within organizations in high-hazard industries by enhancing their leadership capabilities and improving organizational culture. Through tailored coaching, interactive learning labs, and data-driven insights, we strive to empower leaders and foster an environment of safety, engagement, and reliable performance improvement.
OUR APPROACH
CALIS Amplifies Performance by Making Operational Trust Tangible Visible Dependable Repeatable Replicable Measurable Reliable
CALIS works alongside leaders and crews to embed Operational Trust Amplification™ directly into daily routines. Every step is grounded in field reality, scaled through enterprise systems, and measured by durability.
Amplifying Operational Discipline
Resilience is often miscast as fragile — dependent on vigilance, motivation, or culture. CALIS reframes it as a design discipline, engineered into operations. By shifting the lens from hope to systematic, provable reliability, CALIS makes resilience visible, repeatable, and defensible.
Maximising Operational Clarity
High-hazard industries often operate in “two worlds, one business”: boardroom intent vs. frontline execution. CALIS bridges this gap by making directives clear and transferable, so leadership’s strategy lands intact in the field — while frontline realities are surfaced visibly back to the board.
Translating Belief Into Action
Values on posters alone don’t prevent incidents. We start with the foundation you’ve already built, focusing on the authentic values alive in your organization. CALIS helps translate these core beliefs into observable, repeatable routines, transforming a soft asset (values) into a hard control (behaviours). These actions can be evidenced and scaled, closing the credibility gap between leadership’s words and the workforce’s lived reality.
What’s Stopping Your Team from Doing Their Best Work?
Most Organizations Don’t Lack Ideas, Talent or Resources
Instead, they lack a conducive culture where employees are encouraged to collaborate, take initiative and experiment beyond perceived limitations. Imagine what your company could achieve with your teams optimized to bring their best effort and ideas to the table.
