Excellence Awards

2025 NAEM Professional Excellence Awards

2025 Winners Announced at FORUM25

The NAEM Excellence Awards showcase leaders whose outstanding environment, health and safety, and sustainability management achievements helped meet or exceed business objectives. Congratulations to the 2025 Excellence Awards recipients, who were honored during an awards luncheon at FORUM25 in Tucson, Arizona.


2025 Nomination Process

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


2025 NAEM Excellence Awards Judges


We are grateful to our panel of esteemed judges who rigorously evaluated our Excellence Awards nominees and graciously donated their time and attention to maintain the integrity of our program.

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