GET TO KNOW YOUR NAEM LEADERSHIP

KELVIN ROTH
NAEM President
AMCOL INTL.

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
The Board Meeting in Nantucket. It was a great example of how NAEM is a perfect mixture of business and pleasure!

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
The ability to implement programs that effect long term change.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
I wish someone would have told me "It’s not personal. It’s business."

4. What is your favorite green resource?
Well... NAEM of course!

PAT PERRY
NAEM 1st Vice President
TARGET CORPORATION

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
Getting to know & enjoy everyone on the boat trip during the Savannah Forum.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Having the opportunity to influence the company's environmental footprint and really help to make a difference.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
The importance of people skills and the role of leadership

4. What is your favorite green resource?
NAEM, of course!

LESLIE MONTGOMERY
NAEM 2ND Vice President
SOUTHERN COMPANY

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
All of the Forums have been great but especially the boat cruise during the Savannah Forum - everyone got to know each other and we met NAEM's own "Michael Jackson."

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Being able to contribute to my company, to communities and the environment and leaving a positive conservation legacy for future generations.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
Appreciating how important leadership and networking skills are. Success relies as much – or more – on using those skills effectively, than on knowing the facts and having technical expertise.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
Is this a trick question? In addition to NAEM, I like GEMI news and EL Daily.

MIKE PISARCIK
NAEM Secretary & Treasurer
SARA LEE CORPORATION

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
Taking the cable car to the top of Grouse Mountain followed by dinner in the Observatory Restaurant during the Vancouver Forum. We had great food, good conversation and an overall great time that year.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
The flexibility and the variety of topics that demand attention. In managing environment, for example, we handle everything from air emissions to POTWs. You name it, we are working with it on any given day! I also like that change is constant in EHS - the rules change, the people change, and the environment changes. What remains is the need to deliver strong, clear management of processes that ensure that our world is protected while enabling our businesses to be successful.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
I wish that someone would have taken me aside and explained to me what makes a business successful. I wish that I understood business basics much earlier, including how to read an income statement, and why a balance sheet has to balance.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
My favorite green resource is the internet. I get there using a slight amount of electricity and usually no paper. Virtually everything is available there

MARGERY MOORE
Affiliates Council President
BNA

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
Dancing at the Savanaha Forum in 2007 (?) on the steam boat - wow, what a hoot!

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Seeing effects of our actions on the ground, being part of the conversation about how to improve operations.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
That being persistent pays off, don't give up, keep pushing!

4. What is your favorite green resource?
BNA

JOHN GUTTMAN
NAEM General Counsel
BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND, LLC.

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
The first time I was able to attend the Forum and meet EHS professionals from a cross-section of industry. There was a lot of knowledge & experience at the meeting.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Everyday there is a new challenge.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
How the pace of change never stops.

4.What is your favorite green resource?
My colleagues at work!

FRANK BRANDAUER
NAEM Past President
AVAIL CONSULTING

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
My first Forum in San Diego. I was asked by the "then Board members" to go out to dinner. I felt so special and excited because they wanted to get to know me. It was only half-way through that I realized that they were lining me to become a Board member as well!

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
You can actually make a profound difference with the welfare of people and the welfare of the environment by working within the system to do the right thing.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
The importance of making a business case for everything you do. Just being right and accurate in everything you do is not the secret sauce, but doing it right and making a business case will lead to success.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
My professional colleagues and the internet.

GISELLA SPREIZER
NAEM Secretary & Treasurer
URS CORP.

1.What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
The instant acceptance of who you are and that you’re a part of this group. I’m a part of lots of other organizations and some of them take a long time to get into. The instant acceptance of the peers that I’ve met through NAEM is huge!

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Engineers want the "perfect solution". EHS folks really when it comes down to it have more of an opportunity and want to do the right thing.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
To listen more and to watch more. You’re so eager in the beginning, but slowing down and listening are huge.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
The accessibility I have via the web.

STEPHEN EVANOFF
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
DANAHER CORP.

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
In one word: Vancouver. I brought my wife and son to the NAEM forum the year we held it in Vancouver. Everyone in NAEM was so welcoming and friendly to them, it made me proud to be a member. The conference and location were spectacular.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
I can go home at night knowing that I am contributing to an effort to leave a decent world for future generations.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
It’s not linear. There a unexpected twists and turns, successes and failures. Sometimes you get what you deserve and sometimes you don’t. But, if you do your best and act professionally day in and day out, you will ultimately achieve your goals and you will succeed.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
High Country News, “For People Who Care About the West.” It’s a small publication with a big impact. Quality journalism and essays about environmental issues in The West.

JOHN DESELM
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
ANHEUSER-BUSCH INC.

1.What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
In general, whether it’s at the board meeting or Forum, the camaradarie to talk and have relationships. I think that I have learned more outside the rooms between meetings than in the rooms.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
With my company, it’s the idea that they want us to be leaders, get us actively involved, and share with others. They want us to be on the cutting edge of environmental issues because it’s constantly changing. Everyone says that they’re the “best”, but we use NAEM to benchmark with other world-class companies to confirm that we truly are the best.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
The importance of being a good speaker and my presentation skills.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
The benchmarking that we do at NAEM.

FRANK MACIELAK
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
CARDINAL HEALTH

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
Since I'm relatively new to the organization, I don't have a single favorite memory or experience, but rather every experience I have had with NAEM has been positive

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
The ability to demonstrate the value of EHS to our business leaders and for these leaders to integrate EHS into the way they run the business.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
That the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
NAEM! And, that’s why I’m proud to be a member of its Board.

CELIA SPENCE
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
FUJIFILM

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
The board meeting in Nantucket is my favorite NAEM memory--walking around town, hearing about the history of the buildings and later stopping in a local pub for a beer with friends from the board--can’t beat it!

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
The opportunity to prevent harm—to reduce the risk of something bad happening

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
That I didn’t need to be so afraid of speaking up

4. What is your favorite green resource?
Greenbiz.com

MARK HAUSE
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
DUPONT

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
My first NAEM conference in Savannah. It was amazing to see the diverse companies and experiences and to hear from colleagues. It felt great to realize that my problems were not unique and that NAEM was a great resource of information.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
Doing well by doing well. Helping to reduce the impact of our efforts on the environment and sharing ideas with other companies.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
The value and benefits from working in a career in the environmental field.

4. What is your favorite green resource?
My colleagues in NAEM, as they are the best source of information on what works, vs. theories or sales pitches from vendors.

DEB HAMMOND
NAEM Board Member-at-Large
ABBOTT

1. What is your favorite NAEM memory/ experience?
Going to the microbrewery in Montreal several years back. It was one of my first Forums and I met so many great new professional contacts that year. The event included a scenic drive into the "country" on a charter bus, and a warm and toasty place when we got inside, with 100 of my closest friends.

2. What do you find most rewarding about working in EHS?
The evolution of the profession over the last 20 to 25 years. Sustainability issues have come to the forefront and now seem to be taking a more permanent hold, so that concerns about environmental impacts are integrated into business objectives. When I started out, EHS was strictly a technical and regulatory function that has now has become much broader in its implications and opportunities for career growth.

3. What do you wish you knew at the beginning of your career?
Everything I know now!

4.What is your favorite green resource?
I recently discovered the website GoodGuide.com which was developed as an independent source of research and information on food and other consumer products. It provides health, safety and nutrition ratings on various products by category based on laboratory analysis and testing, publishes information on how products are made, and a lot of other data to help us all become more educated consumers.