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
Program Fees
- Standard Price $3,200.00
Program Overview
Drive EHS excellence and lead 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.
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
- 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
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Monday, March 23, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | The Importance Of Self Awareness in Leadership | Tuesday, March 24, 2026 |
| 7:15–7:50 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:50–8:00 am | Class Photo | |
| 8:00–8:45 am | Working Smarter, Not Harder | |
| 8:45–9:45 am | What EHS leaders need to know about Artificial intelligence | |
| 9:45–10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:00–11:30 am | Performance Management and Assessment Metrics | |
| 11:30 am–12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00–2:00 pm | Sustainability and EHS – What's the Connection? | |
| 2:00–3:30 pm | Legal Issues and the ADA | |
| 3:30–3:45 pm | Break | |
| 3:45–5:00 pm | Management and Professional Ethics | Wednesday, March 25, 2026 |
| 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 26, 2026 |
| 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.
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
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.
March 2026
Please check back for updated information.
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.