Speaking from Experience
When you come to the Forum, you'll hear compelling case studies from in-house EHS and sustainability managers who are driving changes within their organizations. These candid conversations focus on challenges, successes and lessons learned, leaving you with insights you will rarely find anywhere else.
Meet This Year's Great Keynotes
William McDonough
Sustainable growth pioneer and business strategist
William McDonough + Partners
Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014
Beyond Sustainability: Designing for Abundance
Drawing on a decade of lessons in putting Cradle to Cradle concepts into practice, William McDonoughinvites us to reimagine everything from doorknobs to the Hoover Dam. In a world that uses design as a tool for positive impact, industry can do better than “do no harm”: it can actively improve everything with which it comes into contact. For McDonough, the questions of resource scarcity and sustainability are questions of design. He envisions beneficial designs of products, buildings, and business practices and shows us these ideas being put to use around the world as everyday objects. Chairs, cars, and factories are being reinvented not just to sustain life on the planet but to grow it. McDonough will provide an eye-opening, inspiring tour of the next industrial revolution as it unfolds and shares insights with attendees on how to take their companies from "less bad to more good." Learn more about his thought-provoking work.
Lucy Parker and Jon Miller
Partners
The Brunswick Group
Thursday Oct. 23, 2014
Everybody's Business: The Unlikely Story of How Big Business Can Fix the World
This year, we are proud to introduce the provocative ideas of Lucy Parker and Jon Miller, Partners at the Brunswick Group and authors of the book “Everybody's Business: The Unlikely Story of How Big Business Can Fix the World”. Lucy Parker and Jon Miller bring a fresh point of view to the relationship between business and society, and how corporate leaders should think about environmental stewardship. Lucy and Jon have worked with large companies from across a variety of industry sectors, helping them develop their companies' unique "sustainability point of view" and think creatively about how their business can solve global environmental problems while making a profit. Learn more about their thought-provoking work.
Dodie Gomer
Bio
Global Environmental Health Safety Competency Development Supervisor
Caterpillar Inc.
Thursday Oct. 23, 2014
Leading Without Authority: Tools and Behaviors that Get Results
EHS professionals are often tasked with a great deal of responsibility - ensure global compliance, drive culture change, reduce company-wide resource use, to just give a few examples - but often don't have the authority to demand change or action. In the absence of authoritative power, effective leaders must use other tools to get results. With more than 25 years of HR experience and as the owner of the global EHS Talent Pipeline for Caterpillar, Dodie Gomer will give us a fresh perspective on how EHS executives can lead without authority and be successful influencers. She will share six powerful leadership and influence tools and demonstrate how to apply them to the world of EHS leadership. Using a peer-to-peer exercise, attendees will have a chance to practice using these tools and will walk away from the session better able to engage and influence those around them. They will also come away with a leadership development plan to support their development cycle after the conference and a peer advisor they can reach out to for input on difficult leadership situations.
2014 EHS Management Forum Speakers
Meet some of this year's EHS Management Forum Speakers. Check back as we add more over the coming weeks!
Kisa Adkins Baskin
Global Environmental Compliance Program Manager
Newell Rubbermaid
Erin M. Black
Vice President of Environmental, Health and Safety
Coca Cola Refreshments
Pat Brush
Vice President of HSE, Quality & Industrial Risk Management
Air Liquide S.A.
Alexandra Dapalito Dunn
Executive Director and General Counsel, Environmental Council of States (ECOS)
Holly Emerson
Senior Analyst, Product Stewardship, Center for Energy Efficiency Sustainability
Ingersoll-Rand Inc.
Amanda Moses
EHS & PR Chemical Controls Program Manager
Ashland Inc.
Sandy Nessing
Managing Director, Sustainability, EHS Strategy & Design
American Electric Power Co.
Steve Sacco
Senior Vice President of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability
Schneider Electric SE
James R. Van Langen, PE
Vice President Management Systems, Corporate Maritime Policy; Carnival Corp. & plc
Interested in Speaking?
Are you an EHS or sustainability leader with a case study to share? Contact Virginia Hoekenga, NAEM Deputy Director at (202) 986-6616 to learn about speaking opportunities.
About NAEM
NAEMThe National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) empowers corporate leaders to advance environmental stewardship, create safe and healthy workplaces, and promote global sustainability. As the largest professional community for EHS and sustainability decision-makers, we provide peer-led educational conferences and an active network for sharing solutions to today's corporate EHS and sustainability management challenges. Visit NAEM online at www.naem.org.
