Hanneke Counts, PE, CSP

Versatile, energetic leader with a proven track record of pioneering innovative strategies, practices, and processes, and driving best-in-class business, organizational, and people results. Change agent, known for building and leading high-performance teams and programs tightly integrated with business objectives. Excellent communicator, champion of future talent, and adept at enrolling and influencing stakeholders across a breadth of internal, external, and multi-cultural settings. Passionate about protecting people, planet, and profit by improving the company's safety culture, minimizing incidents, and implementing next-generation innovations which enable a step-change in HSES performance and operating efficiency. Proven results in: • Establishing a safe, sustainable, and efficient work environment which not only focuses on compliance but also operational efficiencies and business results; • Promoting a zero-incident mindset to eliminate unsafe behaviors and conditions, to reduce personal safety, process safety and environmental incidents, and to drive cultural change; • Aligning health, safety, environment and security (HSES) organization with business, manufacturing, and company strategies and outcomes; • Evaluating and integrating mergers and acquisitions; • Building world-class HSES organization; • Identifying risks and delivering cost-effective, risk-reduction solutions; • Solving complex, critical compliance problems; and • Developing HSES talent and capabilities. Core Competencies: • Business Transformation • Strategy • Change Management • International Operations • M&A • Incident Investigation • Coaching • Talent Development • Team Building & Leadership • Stakeholder Management • Communications • Productivity Improvements • Strategic Cost Management • Risk Management • Negotiation • Regulatory Compliance • Audits • Advocacy • Sustainability • Industrial Health and Safety • Environmental Permitting and Compliance • Hazardous Waste Management • Process Safety Management