Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals
Program Overview
Date: March 22–25, 2027
Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA
Certificate of Specialization eligibility:
Lead EHS excellence and drive lasting change.
Improving environmental health and safety performance within your organization requires an in-depth understanding of management principles and the leadership skills to drive change. You need to be able to build leadership buy-in for health, safety, and environmental initiatives, lead teams effectively, and create strategies for integrating EHS principles into the culture of your organization, including in a crisis.
Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals will help you develop the environmental, health, and safety skills you need to lead teams, make decisions, drive change, and achieve EHS functional excellence in your organization. In this course, you will develop proficiency in key management disciplines critical to your success as an effective leader. These skills will allow you to set a plan tying EHS outcomes to organizational goals, develop strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, and measure outcomes. You will also acquire the skills to influence and guide others across organizational boundaries, build relationships and networks, drive long-term change, and assume senior positions in your organization.
Management and Leadership Training
As you move higher in your organization, the requirements for technical environmental health skills give way to requirements for management skills. You will need to develop clear goals and objectives that tie environmental health and safety outcomes to organizational goals, as well as create strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, delegate to team members, and measure outcomes.
Generating and sustaining long-term change in an organization requires moving beyond management to leadership. Unlike managers, leaders are not limited by the scope of their formal authority. They influence and guide others across traditional organizational boundaries, build relationships, and overcome organization-wide challenges to increasing productivity and value.
In this course you will learn principles imperative to your success as a manager, including:
- Managing and motivating people
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Presenting EHS leadership during a crisis
- Effective business communication
- Risk communication
- Listening as a communication skill
- Time management and utilization
- Strategic and business planning for results
- Regulatory affairs management
- Professional ethics and legal issues of management
- Building EHS management systems
The management skills you learn in this program will make you a more effective environmental health professional, while also improving your proficiency in influencing the actions of others. This skillset will allow you to lead others, manage yourself better, and make better decisions.
This program covers both functional leadership, a form of leadership focused on effectiveness and cohesion, and transformational leadership which is focused on creating and sustaining change. Both types of leadership are required in today’s complex business environment.
You will leave this program with the skills to work smarter, make more strategic contributions to your organization, and gain increased respect, rewards, and recognition.
- Develop clear objectives, goals, strategies, and measures for integrating health, safety, and the environment into the culture of your organization
- Create specific methods for pitching occupational health, safety, and environmental initiatives to organizational decision-makers
- Employ listening skills to develop more effective negotiation and conflict-resolution techniques
- Establish measurable expectations for your services by identifying appropriate performance metrics and implementing a performance measurement system for accountability
- Identify the best possible course of action and prioritize work that is both urgent and important
- Manage time effectively and coach others in this practice
- Meet common challenges with proven techniques in risk communication
- Use the most appropriate management style for every situation
- Understand the characteristics of both a transactional and transformational leader
- Understand legal issues and professional ethics
- Use technology as a management tool
- Understand the role transformational leadership plays in achieving functional excellence in safety and other critical business areas
- Assess your organization’s and your own current transformational level
From Our Alumni
“Regardless of your job tenure or experience, training in leadership will gain you skills that accentuate what you are already doing.”
—Luke Garad, Lead Occupational H&S Professional, Duke Energy
Program Details
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Monday, March 22, 2027 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 7:15–7:45 am | Check-in and Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:45–8:15 am | Classroom Technology Orientation | |
| 8:15–9:15 am | Welcome, Objectives, and Join-Up | |
| 9:15–10:30 am | Developing and Implementing an EHS Management System (EMS) | |
| 10:30–10:45 am | Break | |
| 10:45–11:45 am | Practice of Management Skills; Managing People and Motivation | |
| 11:45 am–12:45 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:45–2:15 pm | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | |
| 2:15–2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:30–4:00 pm | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (con't) | Tuesday, March 23, 2027 |
| 7:15–7:50 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:50–8:00 am | Class Photo | |
| 8:00–8:45 am | Working Smarter, Not Harder | |
| 8:45–9:30 am | Performance Management and Assessment Metrics | |
| 9:30–9:45 am | Break | |
| 9:45–10:30 am | Performance Management and Assessment Metrics – Part 2 | |
| 10:30–11:30 am | Sustainability and EHS – What's the Connection? | |
| 11:30 am–12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30–1:30 pm | Workshop | |
| 1:30–3:15 pm | Legal Issues and the ADA | |
| 3:15–3:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:30–5:00 pm | Management and Professional Ethics | Wednesday, March 24, 2027 |
| 7:15–7:45 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:45–8:30 am | Functional Leadership | |
| 8:30–9:30 am | Managing Regulatory Affairs | |
| 9:30–9:45 am | Break | |
| 9:45–11:15 am | Listening: The Most Critical Communication Skill | |
| 11:15 am–12:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:15–1:45 pm | Strategic Business Planning for Results: Case Studies | |
| 1:45–2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:00–3:15 pm | Risk, Crisis, and Leadership Communications | |
| 3:15–4:00 pm | Participant Forum and Key Learnings | Thursday, March 25, 2027 |
| 7:15–7:45 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:45–9:30 am | Concepts and Principles of Transformational Leadership | |
| 9:30–9:45 am | Break | |
| 9:45–11:30 am | Cintas Safety Journey | |
| 11:30 am–12:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:15–1:00 pm | Cintas Safety Journey (con't) | |
| 1:00–2:00 pm | The Importance of Self Awareness in Leadership | |
| 2:00–2:15 pm | Program Wrap-Up and Path Forward |
This agenda is subject to change.
Current faculty, subject to change
Louis J. DiBerardinis
Instructor in Industrial Hygiene
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Richard D. Fulwiler
Instructor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Steven B. Goldman
Instructor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Stephen Jenkins
Director, Safety and Health
Cintas Corporation
Johanna C. Jobin
Director, Global EHS & Sustainability
Biogen
Carolyn S. Langer
Instructor in Occupational Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
N/A
Elevance Health
CMO
Leo Account
Chief Medical Officer
Anthem National Accounts
Thomas J. Loughman
Vice President
EHS Program Management & Transformation
Amentum
This program is designed for health, safety, medical, and environmental professionals from all types of organizations and businesses who want to increase their individual effectiveness or who have program or functional responsibilities, including:
- Toxicology
- Biosafety
- Environmental health
- Engineering
- Food safety
- Health physics
- Industrial hygiene
- Occupational health
- Occupational medicine
- Public health
- Risk management
- Safety
- Sustainability
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 2.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 26 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.
Take this program to earn a Certificate of Completion, or complete multiple to earn the Environmental Health Certificate of Specialization.
March 2027
Please check back for updated information.
Certificate of Specialization
Earn an Environmental Health Certificate of Specialization
Take this program to earn a Certificate of Completion, or take 3 to earn a Certificate of Specialization. Learn more here.
