AHC Workshop
Confirmed Speakers and General Agenda for
September 27, 2004
AHC Group Private Benchmarking Workshops at the National Academy of Public Administration
Lead discussion facilitator:
Dr. Bruce Piasecki,
Founder and President of the AHC Group
Answering Public Expectation Since 1981
You are invited to attend a set of AHC Group Corporate Affiliate Workshops designed for September 27th in Washington, DC. As in our past eleven years of providing you with eye-to-eye benchmarking workshops, involving 40 to 55 leading companies per workshop, our theme remains "Linking Leadership Councils with Company-Changing Energy, Materials and Environmental Initiatives."
Advanced Feature Speaker:
Jim Thomas, Executive Director of Health, Safety, Environment, Business Continuity & Corporate Citizenship for Novartis Corporation, will speak on the new GEMI publication (The Global Environmental Management Initiative) that he co-authored:
- Clear Advantage: Building Shareholder Value
- Environment: Value to the Investor
Jim's presentation of his intimate knowledge and expertise will help businesses to:
- Measure, manage and communicate EHS value to the financial community;
- Identify the EHS components of intangible value drivers that are hidden sources of organizational power-from regulatory compliance that prevents liabilities, to proactively managing risk; and
- Unlock the value contained in activities companies are required to perform but frequently regard as a cost of doing business — thus, using these embedded costs as an opportunity to better position the enterprise with customers, investors and lenders, alliance partners and current or prospective employees.
Biography
Jim Thomas is the Executive Director of Health, Safety, Environment, Business Continuity & Corporate Citizenship for Novartis Corporation. Jim is also actively involved in Novarits' efforts in Corporate Citizenship. Novartis Corporation is a leading Healthcare company, which includes such businesses as: Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Gerber Baby Food and CIBA Vision contact lens.
Jim is the past Chairman of GEMI (The Global Environmental Management Initiative), an industry group comprising many of the leading U.S. companies. Jim has also previously worked in a wide variety of industries including the chemical industry and the aerospace industry.
He earned a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin & his Masters degree in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University.
Please contact Bruce Piasecki directly at Bruce@ahcgroup.com if you have any questions about the content of these presentations or their purposes.