Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals
“It helped me see the profession in a new light and gave me hope in areas where I was starting to feel defeated.”—Ashley Calkins, Interim Director, EHS /Sr. Manager, EHS & Sustainability, Catalent Biologics
About the Program
Develop skills to bridge the gap between environmental health and safety goals and organizational objectives in this interactive live online program.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $2,800.00
Program Overview
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.
In particular, the pandemic has called for EHS leaders to take on and delegate many new and non-traditional environmental health and safety duties. From testing how to best disinfect disposable masks using radiation to organizing the collection of PPE from labs for distribution at hospitals, EHS professionals are playing a wide range of roles in responding to the pandemic that call for adept leadership skills.
Upcoming Program Details
- 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
- Manage time effectively and coach others in this practice
- Identify the best possible course of action and prioritize work that is both urgent and important
- 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
- Transformational leadership’s critical role in a pandemic
- Assess your organization’s and your own current transformational level
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Thursday, September 4, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1:00–2:00 pm | Course Meet and Greet (Optional) | Monday, September 8, 2025 |
| 10:00–10:10 am | Admin Welcome | |
| 10:10–10:30 am | Introduction and Welcome | |
| 10:30–11:15 am | Functional Leadership | |
| 11:15–11:45 am | Break | |
| 11:45 am–2:30 pm | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | |
| 2:30–2:40 pm | Daily Wrap Up | Tuesday, September 9, 2025 |
| 10:00–11:15 am | Practice of Management Skills; Managing People and Motivation | |
| 11:15 am–12:45 pm | Legal Issues & Professional Ethics | |
| 12:45–1:15 pm | Break | |
| 1:15–2:30 pm | Listening | |
| 2:30–2:40 pm | Daily Wrap Up | Wednesday, September 10, 2025 |
| 10:00–11:30 am | Performance Management | |
| 11:30 am–12:30 pm | Working Smarter, Not Harder | |
| 12:30–1:00 pm | Break | |
| 1:00–2:30 pm | Strategic Planning and Building the Business Case | |
| 2:30–2:40 pm | Daily Wrap Up | Thursday, September 11, 2025 |
| 10:00–11:30 am | Developing and Implementing an EHS Management System | |
| 11:30 am–12:30 pm | Managing Regulatory Affairs | |
| 12:30–1:00 pm | Break | |
| 1:00–2:00 pm | Risk and Crisis Communications | |
| 2:00–3:00 pm | Using Technology as a Management Tool | Friday, September 12, 2025 |
| 10:00–11:45 am | Concept and Principles of Transformational Leadership | |
| 11:45 am–12:15 pm | Break | |
| 12:15–2:00 pm | The Application of Transformational Leadership, Cintas Case Study | |
| 2:00–2:15 pm | 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
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
Credits & Logistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 2.8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 28 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.
