Excellence Awards

NAEM Professional Excellence Awards

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2025 Winners will be Announced at FORUM25

We’re excited to offer our new and expanded Excellence Awards for 2025.

NAEM Excellence Awards exist to recognize and elevate emerging and established leaders in the environmental, health and safety, and/or sustainability community, as well as showcase best practices of EHS & Sustainability management. All award recipients will be honored at FORUM25 in October and receive a deeply discounted rate to attend the four-day conference.

2025 NAEM Excellence Awards
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: This prestigious award honors one executive-level EHS & Sustainability leader whose vision and commitment has positively shaped the EHS & Sustainability fields within a corporate management role.

  • Leadership-in-Action Awards: This category recognizes current and emerging next generation EHS and Sustainability professionals from across the professional community whose influence and commitment have elevated business management practices and the impact of EHS&S initiatives within organizations.
We hope you join us in celebrating EHS & Sustainability management excellence by nominating a well-deserving colleague today! Nominators and nominees do not have to be members of NAEM.

Deadline to submit was Friday, August 29, 2025


Lifetime Achievement Award

Leadership-in-Action Awards

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