Top Strategies for Developing and Retaining EHS&S Talent

Thursday, September 6, 2018
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (ET)

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Cost: FREE thanks to financial support from AECOM

With employee turnover being at an all-time high, employers are left to implement innovative strategies to retain their employees. This includes talent development programs, creative benefits and training techniques that keeps staff engaged.

Attendees will learn:

Top strategies to retain valuable talent within the EHS&S department

• Tactics to keep the younger generation engaged within an organization
• Innovative training methods to develop staff

Speakers

• Dennis Hu, Director EHS and System Safety Engineering; Ball Aerospace
• Kris Morico, EHS Strategic Management Executive Director; AECOM
• Paul Narog, Manager, Corporate Environmental Operations; 3M

This webinar is offered for free thanks to the generous support of our sponsor AECOM:

Dennis Hu

As Director of EHS and SSE, Dennis is responsible for all environmental, health, and safety matters for Ball Aerospace. This includes regulatory compliance, occupational safety, permitting, emergency response, hardware system safety engineering, EHS management systems, program development, sustainability, and external relationships.

Dennis has over 23 years of EHS and business experience and has used this background to help continue to drive program and process efficiency improvements in the aerospace industry. This includes a practical approach for risk-based management of issues with a focus on increasing EHS compliance and improving EHS culture while reducing operational costs. He has a proven track record of building and leading diverse and collaborative multi-functional teams to success while helping to establish the value proposition of EHS within the business.

Prior to joining Ball Aerospace, Dennis served in leadership roles in the consulting, chemical, and oil and gas industries working for multinational companies, both domestically and abroad, with a focus on helping companies solve complex EHS and regulatory issues.

Dennis has an MBA, with distinction, from New York University's Stern School of Business with specializations in Finance, Change Management and Social Impact and Innovation and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and Public Policy from Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dennis currently serves as board chair on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Pollution Prevention Advisory Board, appointed by Governor John W. Hickenlooper. He also sits on the Executive External Advisory Panel of the Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center for Health, Work and Environment with the Colorado School of Public Health and serves as a board member for the Denver Ronald McDonald House Charities. Dennis has been a guest speaker at numerous professional and charitable events covering topics such as EHS leadership, managing organizational change, EHS culture, strategic planning, technical EHS issues and charitable giving.

Kris Morico

Kris has over 34 years of progressive EH&S, sustainability and engineering leadership; thirteen years have been in an executive capacity. She has extensive global EH&S operations experience working for Fortune 100 companies with proven leadership managing both large EH&S organizations and virtual teams with a demonstrated record of success in staff development, coaching and leadership. Over her career Kris has maintained strong relationships with multiple regulatory agencies and NGOs including EPA, OSHA and numerous state and local governmental organizations and other external stakeholders. Kris has successfully led strategic re-structuring efforts creating EH&S shared service organizations and has managed department operating budgets in excess of $7M and responsible for environmental remediation portfolios in excess of $100M. Since 2008 she has lead the strategic development of GE's ecomagination commitment to reduce water consumption 25% by 2015 which achieved 42.5% over the time period and now is advancing efforts to attain the next generation water reduction goal of 20% by 2020 with a 17% reduction in its first year. During her tenure, wastewater exceedances and reportable spills have decreased by 50%. A Professional Engineer licensed in 9 states, she is also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, Certified Safety Professional, Diplomate Water Resources Engineer, EnvisionTM Sustainability Professional among other designations. An active member of several professional organizations, she was elected to the status of Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers, serves on the advisory board for UCONN School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, served as President of NAEM as well as Vice President/President elect of AAEES. Kris has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers at UCONN School of Engineering in 2011.

Paul Narog

Paul Narog is manager of Environmental Operations in 3M's corporate Environmental, Health, and Safety organization.

He has worked in a variety of roles in the environmental field, with specific focus on air emission control, environmental permitting and compliance management, regulatory advocacy, and stakeholder communications. In his current position, Narog manages a department of environmental professionals responsible for regulatory compliance management, global environmental governance programs, pollution prevention, supplier related Sustainability initiatives, and the operational-facing targets in our 2025 Sustainability Goal program.

Narog received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a member of the National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) and the Air and Waste Management Association (A&WMA).