Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals
“This program was an eye opener in many aspects. Starting from the content, which is based on real-life situations. All the faculties are very knowledgeable and the right people to deliver the subject matter. This program will definitely influence my organization’s leaders to be transformational.”—Parthrajsinh Chhasatiya, Health and Safety Specialist, Silfab Solar Inc.
About the Program
Develop skills to bridge the gap between environmental health and safety goals and organizational objectives in this immersive, on-site program in Boston, MA.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $3,200.00
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).
| Monday, March 10, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 9:15–10:15 am | Functional Leadership | |
| 10:15–10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am–12:00 pm | Practice of Management Skills; Managing People and Motivation | |
| 12:00–1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00–3:00 pm | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | |
| 3:00–3:15 pm | Break | |
| 3:15–5:00 pm | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (con't) | |
| 5:00–6:00 pm | Reception | Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
| 7:15–7:50 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:50–8:00 am | Class Photo | |
| 8:00–9:30 am | Legal Issues and the ADA | |
| 9:30–9:45 am | Break | |
| 9:45–11:00 am | Management and Professional Ethics | |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Working Smarter, Not Harder | |
| 12:30–1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30–3:15 pm | Listening: The Most Critical Communication Skill | |
| 3:15–3:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:30–4:15 pm | Performance Management and Assessment Metrics | Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
| 7:30–8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:00–9:45 am | Strategic Business Planning for Results: Case Studies | |
| 9:45–10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:00–11:00 am | Managing Regulatory Affairs | |
| 11:00 am–12:00 pm | Developing and Implementing an EHS Management System (EMS) | |
| 12:00–12:45 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:45–1:45 pm | Sustainability and EHS – What's the Connection? | |
| 1:45–2:45 pm | Using Technology as a Management Tool | |
| 2:45–3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:00–4:15 pm | Communicating Risks | |
| 4:15–5:00 pm | Participant Forum and Key Learnings | Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
| 7:15–7:45 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:45–9:45 am | Concepts and Principles of Transformational Leadership | |
| 9:45–10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:00–11:45 am | Cintas Safety Journey | |
| 11:45 am–12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30–1:30 pm | Cintas Safety Journey (con't) | |
| 1:30–1:45 pm | Open Discussion and Questions | |
| 1:45–2:00 pm | Program Wrap-Up and Path Forward |
This agenda is subject to change.
Current faculty, subject to change
Orlando R. Barone
President
Barone Associates
Meaghan Boyd
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
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
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:
- Biosafety
- Environmental health
- Engineering
- Food safety
- Health physics
- Industrial hygiene
- Occupational health
- Occupational medicine
- Public health
- Risk management
- Safety
- Sustainability
- Toxicology
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.
