“Developing An Environmental Risk Management Strategy (eMS)”

We know a business is profitable if the value it creates exceeds the cost of performing their value activities. Today’s society of growing environmental accountability, i.e. FIN 47, Sarbanes Oxley, ISO 14000, the SEC’s SAB 92 ruling, Brownfield redevelopment, terrorism and more has clearly made environmental issues an everyday value activity. Environmental information is competitive intelligence a business must have to achieve true value in today’s business climate and to develop a proactive environmental Management Strategy (eMS). By completing this course and passing the examination, you will become a certified environmental Strategist (eS) and have daily access to the competitive environmental intelligence for one year.

Environmental Strategist Online Description

Virtually every business in existence has either a direct or in-direct environmental exposure. Businesses with direct environmental exposures are quite obvious like chemical manufacturers, hazardous materials transporters, environmental remediation contractors.

Businesses with in-direct environmental exposures are not quite so obvious, like a retail greeting card shop. You generally do not think about a retail card shop having an environmental exposure. However, when the dry cleaner three doors down in the strip mall, where the card shop is located, has a spill of their dry cleaning chemicals and the mall has to be evacuated for a week while the chemicals are cleaned up, the card shop has just experienced an in-direct environmental exposure.

Due to pressure on businesses to keep up with regulatory change, the majority have operated from a reactive position which means they manage environmental events after they occur. Businesses know they have gained little, if any, value in utilizing the reactive, litigation based strategy so predominate in today’s environmental movement.

For a business to create true value, they must move beyond litigation and government compliance by taking control of their environmental issues. www.estrategist.com is the environmental portal that proactively educates businesses on minimizing risk, maximizing value while optimizing performance.

Here is what one person had to say about www.estrategist.com and becoming an environmental Strategist:

“The online training course sharpened my knowledge of the environmental liability issues affecting all businesses today. The Environmental Strategist certification…has provided me with additional credibility with my clients…and with greater advantage in addressing my client’s environmental liability issues.” SM, Account Executive

What you will find on eS Online: The Environmental Management Strategy (eMS) Online modules give the who, what, where, when, why and how to develop and implement a proactive environmental Management Strategy (eMS). Module #6, gives you all of the information you will need to conduct an initial environmental Risk Assessment (eRA) which is the foundation of your eMS. There is a resource library loaded with competitive environmental intelligence on a vast array of topics important to business. Since the majority of businesses operating today do not have the financial strength to sustain an environmental loss you will learn about each type of environmental insurance in the market place. eS Online offers our exclusive eRAM (environmental Risk Assessment and Management) Tool that manages your eMS. With eRAM you are able to develop, implement, coordinate, and track your eMS. The glossary section offers in depth details on a variety of common environmental terms and acronyms.

Benefits To You And Your Organization

As an eS, you will show businesses how to REDUCE:

• liability exposures
• labor cost
• compliance cost
• accounting cost
• banking cost
• research cost
• paper use
• training cost
• legal cost
• insurance cost
• vendor cost
• disposal cost

As an eS, you will show businesses how to IMPROVE:

• global competitiveness
• public relations
• employee morale
• lobbying efforts
• coordination of environmental services
• waste recycling
• TEAM development
• profit center development
• outsourcing efficiency

As an eS, you will show businesses how to INCREASE stock value

Who Should Participate

In taking environmental Strategist Online, you will learn how to develop and execute a proactive environmental Management Strategy (eMS). An eMS impacts a business both vertically and horizontally. The strategies you will develop from this seminar involve your eMS TEAM, from upper management, risk/safety, environmental, legal, accounting/financial, real estate, insurance, and front line employees.

environmental Strategist Online will also show you how involving your vendors/subcontractors/distributors/suppliers/transporters, can help protect you against an indirect environmental loss that can impact your operations. Think about how your business could be impacted if a vendor/subcontractor/distributor/supplier/transporter had an environmental loss and could not perform their service for you.

Professionals in government and not-for-profit will also benefit from www.estrategist.com.

Learning Method

This is an e-learning course. environmental Strategist Online has been developed into two sections. First there is the Environmental Strategist seminar where you will meet Chris Bunbury, President of Environmental Risk Managers, Inc. who is a certified Environmental Strategist™. Chris explains the importance and benefits of developing an eMS and becoming environmentally proactive. Following your review of the seminar, you move onto the training content which consists of 6 course modules and a 50 question test. There are sample test questions at the end of most modules so each participant can gage their retention level. You can go through each module at your own pace, start and stop as you need. You will need to dedicate time in order to take the final 50 question test. The certification test requires completion in its entirety.

Secondly, available to all certified environmental Strategist’s is the competitive intelligence tool section containing the environmental glossary of acronyms and terms, case studies, a reference library and the Environmental Risk Assessment Management (ERAM) Tool that coordinates your environmental Management Strategy (eMS). This section of environmental Strategist Online is designed to be one you will use on a daily basis as you move forward with the development and execution of your eMS.

Tutors Background

J. Christopher Bunbury
environmental Strategist

Chris Bunbury is an environmental Strategist™ (eS) and President of Environmental Strategist, Inc. (ERMI). Chris’s position as an environmental Strategist™ began when he graduated from Michigan State University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources. In 1988, Chris entered the commercial property and casualty insurance industry just as the environmental liability insurance industry began to re-evolve.

In his capacity as a commercial insurance producer, Chris was able to observe and learn, both the environmental risk faced by business and the opportunities that can arise from a proactive environmental Management Strategy (eMS). The broad spectrum of educational and practical experience gained over the last seventeen years is the foundation from which ERMI has built their success. As an environmental Strategist (eS) Chris delivers competitive intelligence and strategies on environmental issues to assist clients in maximizing their material assets and time while reducing liabilities.

Over the years Chris has become a nationally recognized speaker on environmental strategies and how to profit through a TEAM SPORT (Together Everyone Accomplishes More because Strategic Partners Optimize Resources and Time) strategy. In the age of information, it’s about the quality of information not the quantity. Quality environmental information represents the corner stone of Environmental Strategist, Inc. foundation.

Recently ERMI partnered with i3Logic, an industry leader in elearning development and introduced www.estrategist.com. estrategist.com is the environmental portal (starter kit) that delivers competitive environmental intelligence that can be immediately blended into any business strategy.

Enrollment Fee

The fee for the on-line course is US$175.00.

You must enter RIMS05 where asked on the registration form under “Member Code”.

How To Enroll

Simply go to www.estrategist.com. On the main page you will click on the yellow “enroll now” button and the site will take you through the registration process. If you have any questions or need help with registering, contact: Chris Bunbury, Phone: 231-256-2122, Fax: 231-256-2123, E-mail: jcbunbury@aol.com