Practical Resources for Today's Horse Professionals
Helping horse professionals strengthen communication, consistency, decision-making, professional practices, and the experiences they create for horses and people.
For more than four decades, Randi Thompson has worked throughout the horse industry as an instructor, clinician, evaluator, program developer, consultant, educator, and industry leader. Today, that experience comes together through the Equine Safety and Success Guide™, the Equine Safety and Success Network™, professional consulting, education, and equine expert witness and litigation consulting.
Equine Safety and Success Guide™
Practical Toolkit Collections designed to help horse professionals strengthen communication, consistency, documentation, decision-making, and everyday professional practices across their programs.
Join horse professionals who are helping develop, test, and improve the Equine Safety and Success Guide™ through real-world discussion, experience, and Pilot Program participation.
Consulting & Expert Witness Services
Professional consulting for horse professionals and equine organizations, along with expert witness and litigation consulting for attorneys involved in equine-related matters and equine operations.
Explore the Equine Safety and Success Guide™ Toolkit Collections
The Equine Safety and Success Guide™ is growing through connected Toolkit Collections designed around the everyday work of horse professionals. Each Collection focuses on a different area of professional practice and provides practical resources that can be adapted for use in real horse operations.
Complete Rider Evaluation Toolkit Collection™
Three connected Rider Evaluation Toolkits™ provide a structured process for observing, documenting, and communicating rider development from the rider’s starting point through progressive riding.
Complete Rules & Expectations Toolkit Collection™
Four connected toolkits help horse professionals establish expectations, respond when expectations are not followed, recognize developing patterns, and determine when additional evaluation or management action may be appropriate.
The First Lesson Experience™ Toolkit Collection
Five connected toolkits help horse professionals create a consistent first lesson experience, from the initial inquiry through the first lesson and follow-up.
Coming Next: Currently in development.
Parents, Guardians & Friends Toolkit Collection™
Practical tools help horse professionals create clearer communication, appropriate boundaries, meaningful involvement, and stronger relationships with the parents, guardians, family members, and friends who support their riders.
Coming Soon: Currently in development.
Different Areas of Professional Practice. One Growing System.
The Equine Safety and Success Guide™ brings together practical resources for the many parts of operating and working within equine programs. The individual Toolkit Collections focus on different areas, but together they support clearer communication, greater consistency, thoughtful decision-making, documentation, and better experiences for horses and people.
The Equine Safety and Success Network™ is the professional community behind the Guide. Through ESSN, horse professionals share experiences, discuss real-world situations, test developing resources, and help identify what is most useful in everyday horse operations. Those conversations and experiences help shape the ESSG, where the ideas become practical tools horse professionals can put to work in their own programs.
Good systems should support the experience and judgment of good horse professionals, not replace them.