Leadership Team
Enhance Safety Training exists because two people spent 15 years refusing to give up on an idea. Shanon and Jenny first met working at an FBO together. It wasn't long before they launched their own plane washing business and started dreaming about what else they could build. The timing was never right. The plans kept getting shelved. But when they reunited at a compliance training company and finally gained the expertise their vision had always demanded, there was nothing left to wait for. EST is the result of a decade and a half of friendship, persistence, and an unshakeable belief that workers deserve better.
Shanon Hansen
ceo & co-founder
Shanon brings nearly two decades in safety training and professional development, shaped by her own blue-collar roots and a firsthand understanding of what workers actually need beyond a paycheck. She co-founded Enhance Safety Training on the belief that businesses and workers grow together when companies invest in the whole person — not just compliance.
Learn MoreShanon Hansen, CEO & Co-Founder
Shanon grew up in a working-class, single-income household and spent years working blue-collar jobs. That experience shaped how she sees the relationship between work and life — and where most companies get it wrong.
She’s seen firsthand what happens when workers pour everything into a job with no support in return: the burnout, the toll on individuals and families, the spiral that comes when there’s no time off, no benefits, and no one in your corner. She’s also seen what’s possible when that changes.
Before co-founding Enhance Safety Training, Shanon spent nearly two decades in safety training and professional development — leading operations, developing training programs, navigating federal and state regulations, and developing professional women through nonprofit board leadership and event coordination.
What drives her now is a belief that businesses and workers can succeed together — each on their own terms, co-creating lives with real freedom of time, money, and choice. Workers who feel secure, educated, and genuinely supported. Companies that grow because they invest in their people. That’s what Enhance was built to do.
Jenny Shaw
COO & Co-founder
Jenny brings over 20 years in safety, training, and operations — and a lifetime of understanding what it's like to work hard and still barely get by. That firsthand experience drove her to co-found Enhance Safety Training, where she and Shanon are building the kind of workforce development that goes beyond compliance to give workers a real reason to stay and grow.
Learn MoreJenny Shaw, COO & Co-Founder
There are plenty of safety compliance platforms. Jenny built Enhance Safety Training to go beyond that.
After 20 years in safety, operations, and compliance training, she’d seen the pattern too many times: companies invest in paperwork and skip the people. Workers get checked off a list and handed back to the job. Nobody asks what else they might need to thrive — or stay.
Jenny’s parents worked multiple jobs — cleaning restaurants and businesses after hours, doing whatever it took to get ahead. Jenny took a different route: college, the degree, the résumé. And still found herself in the same place: earning responsibility long before opportunity followed. Different path, same ceiling. When she finally did advance, she watched the same dynamic play out for everyone around her. Talent was everywhere. Investment was not.
As an Operations Manager at a Fixed Base Operator and later doing quality assurance for a compliance training company, the problem came into sharpest focus: the industry had spent decades perfecting the art of checking boxes. Almost none of it was built to actually change anything for the people sitting through it.
Enhance is the platform she spent two decades wishing existed — one that treats workers as whole people, not compliance requirements. When you invest in someone’s future, you build the kind of workplace where great people want to stay.
