Mistakes at work are inevitable. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting your career, errors happen—missed deadlines, miscommunications, incorrect assumptions, or decisions that didn’t produce the expected results. What truly defines a professional environment isn’t the absence of mistakes, but how individuals and leaders respond when they occur. In the healthiest workplaces, mistakes become learning opportunities rather than sources of blame. Here’s some ways professionals...

Entering environmental consulting is exciting—and demanding. New professionals quickly find themselves balancing fieldwork, regulatory requirements, tight deadlines, and high client expectations, particularly in areas like environmental due diligence and brownfield redevelopment. As a company that provides environmental training programs, we work with consulting firms every day, and one message consistently resonates with early-career staff: technical skills will get you hired, but soft...

With the 2025 National Brownfield Training Conference fresh in my mind, and while working on some brownfield projects myself, I’ve been thinking about how local governments and environmental consultants can successfully redevelop brownfields together. Brownfield sites—properties complicated by real or perceived contamination—represent both a challenge and an opportunity for communities. For local governments , they’re a chance to transform blighted land into economic engines. For...