Leadership & Careers
Become the EHS&S leader you aspire to beDevelop your leadership skills, advance your career and help you manage your environment, health, safety and sustainability team. You'll hear from great leaders and advisers on how to be an effective EHS&S leader.
"Whether or not you have direct reports, you are going to be a leader. You are going to be a leader and an advocate for the health and safety of employees; for the health and safety of the environment."
— Drena Howard, Director of Global Retail EHS for The Estée Lauder Co's. Inc.
Blog Posts
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David Eherts: EHS Success is About Employee Engagement, and Employee Engagement is About Belief
BlogTo get a company to walk the EHS&S walk, it takes employee engagement at the “boots on the ground” level just as much as the C-suite, advises Dr. David Eherts, Vice President of Global EHS at Allergan. There are two keys to engaging employee support in EHS: Employees need to believe that the issue matters, and employees need to believe that their actions matter. -
Nancy Sutley's Advice to Aspiring Environmental Leaders: Never Lose Sight of the Purpose
BlogNancy Sutley, former Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and a chief architect of President Obama's 2013 Climate Action Plan, shares early career lessons, how to lead change, and how to get stakeholders of different perspectives to align around the same goal. -
Here Comes the Ampersand
BlogThe emergence of sustainability as a business management paradigm is transforming what NAEM members do, where they sit, and yes, the number of ampersands in their titles. -
“Not On My Watch”: How Sandy Stash Found Career Success by Leading Change in Challenging Environments
BlogA petroleum engineer by training, Sandy Stash was one of the first women to work as a drilling engineer and drilling rig foreman at ARCO locations across North America. Today she is the Global Senior Vice President of Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Operational Assurance at Talisman Energy.
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Webinars
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How Do You Retain the Next Generation of Young EHS&S Talent?
WebinarFinding and keeping EHS&S talent is one of the biggest challenges in today’s competitive business landscape. Employee turnover is costly and impacts morale. So how can you retain the high performers you are developing? -
Form vs. Function: Optimizing the Design of your EHS&S Organization
WebinarThis webinar features key insights from NAEM's report on EHS & Sustainability Staffing, Structure and Budgets. You'll learn about the core responsibilities and structure of EHS functions and hear a peer case study on how Dean Foods aligned its resources to mitigate risk during a dynamic period of growth and divestitures. -
Career Profiles and Skills for Success
WebinarWhat are the key skills EHS and sustainability leaders need to be successful? This webinar features survey results from more than 350 in-house EHS&S leaders.
Reports
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2020 EHS&S Staffing, Structure & Budget Report
ReportAre you looking to optimize and reorganize your EHS & Sustainability team? Read NAEM's 2020 report to benchmark how other companies are staffing, structuring and budgeting for their EHS&S departments. -
2017 EHS & Sustainability Salary Report
ReportThis report provides a look at the EHS&S salaries of individual professionals from more than 198 companies. This information may be used by EHS&S professionals to develop staffing plans, negotiate their own salaries and understand the impact of changing roles on salaries. -
2016 EHS&S Staffing, Structure and Budgets Benchmark
ReportThis report provides a benchmark for the organizational structure, staffing levels, and responsibilities of the function that supports the company's EHS&S goals.
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