AHC Group Workshop
June 17-19, 2002
AHC Group's
10th Annual Corporate Affiliates Event
"Linking Corporate Leadership with Company-Changing
Energy, Material and Environmental Initiatives"
Lead discussion facilitator:
Dr. Bruce Piasecki, Founder and President
of the
AHC Group
Answering Public Expectation Since 1981
AHC Group is a management consulting firm specializing in environmental strategy and external affairs.
Please see www.ahcgroup.com for further information
This Event is located at the
Gideon Putnam Hotel
Saratoga Springs, NY
518-584-3000
AHC Group Mission Statement on the
10th Annual Corporate Affiliate Program
In summary, the AHC Group is hosting this set of workshops to improve the link between business strategy and environmental strategy. It is the belief of the AHC Group's 21 Senior Associates that the governance system should help in the following ways:external sensing, right access, new products, cost and risk reduction, reputation enhancement, and partner attraction. The AHC Group members, through their publications like Corporate Strategy Today and various books, also believe there is a rising importance to linking corporate external affairs with EHS function and new product development.
Please contact Bruce Piasecki directly at bruce@ahcgroup.com if you have any questions about the content of these presentations or their purposes.
Contact Marykay Greenfield at marykay@ahcgroup.com if you are a paying Corporate Affiliate and you wish for other members of your corporation to attend.
Our next set of workshops is scheduled for the third week in September in Washington, DC.
Please note the below June 17th AHC Group seminar is available to you by invitation only. Email Bruce Piasecki at bruce@ahcgroup.com if you are interested in attending.
Monday, June 17th
11am-3pm:
Exclusive Seminar for Invited Guests on
EHS GOVERNANCE ISSUES AFTER ENRON
Speakers Include:
Sam Smolik, Vice President of EHS at DOW, will be talking about his strategic alignment and governance efforts, involving a review of their use of five external advisors over the last several years called the "Dow external environmental advisory board."
Bill Sugar, a ten-year veteran of Anheuser-Busch, will also present on how EHS Governance issues were structured to reach Senior Executives at A-B in their marketing group and A-B's top strategy group.
Anticipated audience:
10 top operational people, 10 chief environmental officers, 5 AHC Group Senior Associates, including:
- Steve Percy, the former Chairman of British Petroleum North America
- Frank Boren, the former President of the Nature Conservancy and a 10-year Chairman of ARCO's EHS Committee of the Board
- Ken Dickerson, the former Senior Vice President of External Affairs at ARCO
- Bruce Piasecki, President and Founder of the AHC Group
- Paul Bray, Managing Editor of Corporate Strategy Today and AHC Group Senior Associate
By 4/9, we have confirmed top operational executives from 8 of our affiliate companies, including Intel, Sun Oil and Earth Tech. Two guest slots remain open as of 4/9.
Please note these following June 18th & 19th seminars are available to all Corporate Affiliates and invited guests.
Tuesday, June 18th
AHC Group Workshop #1
8-12pm: Site Remediation Workshop chaired by Kenneth R. Dickerson, AHC Group Senior Associate and past EVP of External Affairs at ARCO
Speakers Include:
Robert Forbes, Director of Remediation at FMC, will present on how to move a company's remediation programs from negatives to how best to gain positive forward momentum on Site Remediation issues.
John Claussen, President of TRC Environment Corporation, will examine his experience on managing several dozen site remediation cases since his days as a lead representative on GE's site clean-up issues in the Hudson River Valley.
Dennis Macauley, RESHAPING REMEDIATION'S FUTURE AT DOW CHEMICAL. Last year when Dow Chemical and Union Carbide merged, we decided to consolidate all environmental remediation activities into one global department that will operate as a business. Although this is still a "work in progress," the status of this consolidation, including successes, disappointments and plans, will be the focus of this discussion. Topics covered will include:
- The Environmental Operations business model
- The integration process-forging one global organization
- Management systems-what we've got and what we need
- Issues, plans and lessons learned
Dennis Macauley, Director of Environmental Remediation for the Dow Chemical Company, will lead this discussion. Mr. Macauley assumed this position in February 2001, when Dow merged with Union Carbide. Prior to that, Mr. Macauley held a wide variety of EH&S positions in technology and manufacturing and on the corporate staff at Union Carbide, including corporate director of safety and health, corporate director of environment, and EH&S director for about half of the company's businesses.
Anticipated Audience:
18 leading AHC Corporate Affiliates including the heads of remediation from Dow, DuPont, Ashland, BP, FMC, Cleveland Cliffs, North East Utilities, and 6 other of our 17 leading utility clients and affiliates.
AHC Group Workshop #2
1-5pm: Power Generation and Emerging Issues Workshop chaired by Bruce Piasecki, President and Founder of the AHC Group
Speakers Include:
David Cesareo, Vice President of EH&S at Exelon, will present on resetting direction, performance efficiency after acquisitions, process improvements, and linking environmental initiatives with general business direction. Exelon is now the 4th largest electricity producer in the United States. (To be reconfirmed by 5/15)
Gary Fuhrman, Senior Associate of the AHC Group and a 30-year veteran of environmental systems and strategy, will examine emerging issues in power generation based on his prior chairing of such issues for the Edison Electric Institute. Our emphasis is on linking strategic business initiatives to these emerging issues, from new source review to infrastructure and reliability issues.
Anticipated Audience:
14 of North America's 100 largest power generators including PP&L, NiSource, Exelon, Constellation, DTE and others, with 8 leading larger energy users from our affiliates list, including senior executives representing Anheuser-Busch, Intel and GM.
After these first 2 AHC Group workshops, Tuesday evening at 5pm thru Wednesday at 1pm is open to the public, non-affiliate companies.
5-6:30 pm: AHC Group sponsors 10th Annual Corporate Affiliates Public Reception
6:30-7:30 pm: Dinner served for registered guests and Corporate Affiliates
7:30-9:00 pm: Keynote address open to public by Richard F. Hirsh.
As the author of Power Loss, a new MIT Press publication, Hirsh will examine the fragmentation of the utility elites and the critical business issues surrounding reliable energy production in the age of environmentalism. Introduction by Gary Fuhrman, AHC Group Senior Associate.
9:00-10:00 pm: Open question and answer session with Dr. Richard Hirsh
We need to know by 5/15, in response to this agenda, which AHC Group workshop and which public events you plan on attending.
Wednesday, June 19
In celebration of our 10th Annual Affiliates event, the following speeches and presentations are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
8:30-9:30 am — Orientation Session: Bruce Piasecki, Steve Percy, Frank Boren and Ken Dickerson will welcome and introduce members of the AHC Group's Corporate Affiliates Program, clients and researchers. The goal of this 60-minute session is to identify the key workshop executives and affiliates to the larger public audience. Across the last 10 years, these guests range in size between 80 and 108 non-affiliates consisting of thought leaders, regulators, and peer companies of our corporate affiliate members.
10-11:30am: Dennis Minano, recently retired as GM's Chief Energy and Environmental Officer and currently Chairman of the Keystone Center's Public Policy Board, gives a keynote presentation on EHS Governance Issues and Strategic Business Alignment.
Here the emphasis is on aligning large complex compliance programs with new global competitive pressures.
11:30-12:15 pm: Presentation by Dr. Deborah Anderson, who for 20 years was the Environmental Quality Worldwide Leader for Proctor and Gamble as well as the direct report to P & G's Leadership Council on emerging issues.
Dr. Deborah Anderson, Senior Associate of the AHC Group and President of Farsight Associates Inc., will speak on The Farsight Process, a comprehensive issues management process that includes forecasting & confirmation of emerging issues with a unique analysis process enabling actions to mitigate the issue or capitalize on opportunities the issue might present. We have applied this process to several clients and affiliates since Dr. Anderson joined the AHC Group in 1999. Reactions will be solicited and applied.
12:15-1:00: Luncheon — Open for networking
AHC Group Workshop #3
1-5pm:: EHS Governance Workshop chaired by Steve Percy and facilitated by Frank Boren. Steve Percy is an AHC Group Senior Associate and the former chairman of BP America. Mr. Boren served on ARCO's Board for 10 years. They have assembled 32 leading companies for this year-long benchmarking exchange.
Speakers Include:
Dennis Minano will further develop his comments on EH&S Governance issues. In addition, the AHC Group's new special issue of Corporate Strategy Today on EH&S Governance issues, with leading contribution from Ashland's VP of EH&S Glenn Hammer, Anheuser-Busch's former Senior Director of External Affairs Bill Sugar and the founder of a leading CEO news alert Darryl Poole, will be examined and discussed.
Steve Percy will also break the workshop into two continuing parts based on discussions of the last two days.
These topics include: Role of significant environmental events; timing and frequency of Boards; structure and role of EHS procedures and organizations; the strategic value of success stories and how-to manuals, tools and processes; a management councils role in providing guidance for EHS stretch goals; integration with product-line and business units; predicting tools for emerging issues and leading performance indicators; role of technology innovation in minimizing risk and environmental uncertainties; the link between EHS responsibilities in facility security.
If you need samples of our past workshop case studies by DuPont, Ashland, or others, please request them from Marykay Greenfield at marykay@ahcgroup.com.