NexGen Leader Awards
The NexGen Leader Awards recognize rising EHS and Sustainability managers who possess the talent and skills required for the next generation of leaders.
Nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit.
Nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit.
NexGen Focus Areas
- Empowering Systems: Recognizes a leader who has successfully developed or enhanced a management system that led to achieving significant environmental/EHS objectives
- Championing Technology Innovation: Showcases the adoption and advancement of new technologies, tools, or platforms that realized improved business performance outcomes by a professional who also fosters a culture of technological innovation within organizations
- Keeping Employees Safe: Recognizes a professional who has made a difference by achieving safety program impacts, demonstrating leadership, and striving to extend the positive impacts of a safety-first culture throughout their organization
- Advancing Corporate Transparency: Recognizes individuals who developed internal systems/approaches to enhance accountability and disclosure, which resulted in effective communication of the company’s sustainability performance to its stakeholders
- Minimizing the Corporate Footprint: Recognizes individuals who achieved significant, positive results from specific projects or initiatives in the areas of energy efficiency, carbon management, waste reduction (including circularity), or water stewardship
Qualifications
EHS & Sustainability professionals who work in a corporation, consultancy, or firm that provides EHS&S services are eligible.Nominees must:
- Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in the fields of environment, health, safety, and/or sustainability and demonstrate significant potential
- Be recognized as an emerging EHS&S leader within their organization
- Demonstrate results within their area of responsibility
- Showcase proven decision-making and/or problem-solving ability
- Be dedicated to professional development
- Be committed to the EHS&S profession
Submission Requirements
- Nominator may be any corporate industry professional who is a supervisor/mentor of person being nominated or a company executive where person being nominated is employed.
- Nominators may nominate more than one individual — a separate form is required for each nominee.
- Self-nominations will not be accepted.
- Nominators and nominees do not have to be members of NAEM.
- Individuals who sit on NAEM's Board of Directors or Board of Regents
are not eligible to be nominated.
Required Documents
- A completed nomination form
