Constance Manders is a professional with over 20 years of experience in formulating policies and procedures for multinational corporations and their diverse subsidiaries that are designed to achieve superior risk management results and avoid adverse business consequences to the corporation through environmental health and safety practices. She has been positioned structurally within corporate HQ management organizations, and she served as an internal consultant across a broad range of companies with direct accountability to a Board of Directors committee for environmental, health, safety governance.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Communications: Effective listener, writer and presenter. Constance's work is valued for its ability to convey technical information in functional, memorable and interesting form by making the larger issues personal to the audience to stimulate participatory dialogue and stewardship
• Leadership: Constance's approach is to build individual commitment through consensus, a carefully negotiated agreement between groups of diverse stakeholders. It differs from top-down directives or grassroots initiatives in that it is a system-wide acceptance and commitment that must engage each participant. She is successful in creating teams and maintaining a very high quality of performance, a continuous process that requires enabling leadership.
• Policies and Procedures: In the absence of industry standards, Constance has incorporated governmental directives, science and accepted public policies in order to set the corporation’s goals for risk management, sustainability and CSR.
• Project Management: Constance has developed and managed the implementation of large projects in resource sustainability, health, and safety, completing them on time and within budget. Knowing the mindset of the individual stakeholders, and their ability, is essential.
• International Experience: Successfully worked in local and regional settings that have presented some powerful challenges: the Middle East, Latin America, and the many facets of America.
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  Corporate Social Responsibility: Constance has been on the leading edge of formulating and championing the development of measures for resource sustainability and other CSR activities over the past 20 years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal

Currently providing consulting services to companies and professional associations.

• Sportexe: Provide consultation on an effective response strategy to address risks and public  inquiries regarding HES issues.  
• Private Natural Gas Pipeline Client: Provide QA on the design of environmental audit program.
• Auditing Roundtable (AR) Director of Education and Training: AR is an international organization whose mission is to promote excellence in HES management and sustainability through the enhancement and advancement of best practices, principles and values of efficient and timely monitoring and evaluation. My assignments for this position include:
• Develop and implement the business plan for its flagship training and education program
• Develop a multimedia delivery strategy for the training program (including video, web and computer based training)
• Represent the AR in the Trilateral Group (AR, BEAC and the IIA) to establish consensus-based auditor competency, proficiency and practice standards.  www.auditing-roundtable.org

Headquarters Corporate Manager - Department of Health, Environment and Safety

Responsible for setting policy, creating strategy and directing the health, environment and safety management program to achieve superior risk management results and avoid adverse consequences to the corporation. Lead responsibility for developing and directing the corporation’s quality assurance for health, environment, safety and process risk management within Occidental Petroleum and its subsidiary companies. Over 15 years, Constance has accomplished the following:

• Created a nationally recognized Health Environmental and Safety Management and Review Program that has been consistently recognized as top quartile by government, industry and NGOs.
• Functioned in an advocacy role within the corporation and directly accountable to a Committee of the Board of Directors, as well as senior management.  Reported to the Health and Environmental Safety Committee of the Board of Directors five times annually on the performance of Health, Environment, Safety and Risk Management (HESRM) and implemented Board directives.
• Led multidisciplinary project teams for consensus on programs and practices. Participate in the business continuity and contingency planning efforts at Headquarters and the subsidiaries. Directed and managed external consultants and contracts. Interfaced with the public, with environmental rights organizations and stakeholders in the field and on job sites.
• Designed and delivered presentations on key elements of Occidental’s health and environmental safety program to Federal agencies (Department of Justice, EPA) as well as to international industry groups and citizen’s advocacy groups.
• Conducted comprehensive management reviews of Occidental’s subsidiaries. Met with each President to evaluate his or her strategy on leadership, business integration of the HESRM policy, quality of her or his management systems, planning, and resource utilization. After the evaluative process, Constance partnered with each President in preparing a revealing report that the subsidiary presented to the Board of Directors.

Senior Management Consultant

Responsible for the practice development activities for the then-new Environmental Management Services Practice (EMSP), including service line definition, strategic planning, and marketing.

• Led consultation team on a variety of projects within EMSP.  Projects completed included business risk analysis, audit/assessment protocol design, regulatory and operations analysis, information management, risk identification, and management audits of the HES functions of various clients.

EARLY CAREER

Served as Supervisor of Environmental Operations for Aerojet General with responsibility for the management of environmental permitting and compliance programs for an 8500-acre solid rocket motor, liquid rocket engine and chemical research and development, production, manufacturing and testing facility. Also worked as an Analyst for the California Farm Bureau Federation as well as for the Sacramento Regional Area Planning Commission.

LEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENTS

Advisory Committee, Environmental Management and Auditing Certificate Programs
Instructor, Environmental Management and Auditing Certificate Programs
Participated in the defining and development of a UC system wide curriculum and field practice for a Certificate Program in Environmental Management and Auditing.

Past President and Member of the Board of Directors of this national professional organization, focused on promoting proactive health, environment and safety management practices.

• As President, she reorganized the association to promote leadership, best practices, preparedness and efficiency.
• As Vice President, Constance designed and directed a detailed management study that provided a gap analysis of the strategic plan and delivered a roadmap for meeting the organization’s charter and satisfying members’ expectations.

Founder and Past President.
Founded a non-profit corporation to provide advocacy and support for survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families.

• Initiated, produced and chaired a series of technical medical conferences fully accredited for physician's Continuing Medical Education in partnership with University of California, Davis Medical Center.
• Devised a marketing plan and created video presentations adopted by the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine, which ensured on-line access to the information by hospitals nationwide.

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Registered Environmental Assessor, #01370, State of California
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor,

• Environmental Compliance
• EMS 14000 Plus

Board of Environmental, Health and Safety Auditor Certifications

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles.  Anderson School of Business, Executive Program

University of California, Davis.  Bachelor of Science, Renewable Natural Resources

California State University, Sacramento. Bachelor of Arts