John Fischer, CSP

John Fischer is the Director of Environmental Strategy and EHS Governance at Duke Energy and leads the enterprise from the company’s headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. With over 24 years of experience, he is focused on preventing serious incidents and fatalities, regulatory compliance with all applicable standards (EPA, OSHA, DOT, state, etc.), ensuring paramount EHS execution of the clean energy transition, and leading the organization through industry ESG transformation.  John uses organizational motivation techniques, process methodologies, and continuous improvement principals to further the company’s EHS performance and industry leadership.  

Duke Energy has been recognized as the industry leader in Health and Safety performance for the past 7 years and is now leading significant industry performance metric transformation.  John was a driving force in the industry research that shifted lagging indicators toward more innovative SIF precursor and Energy Wheel leading indicators.  He also is an active advocate for front line leadership and employee engagement through operation excellence.

Prior to Duke Energy, John held EHS leadership positions at National Grid, Dynegy, and DTE Energy, in addition to senior leadership positions at private EHS consulting firms working with all industry sectors.  John holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health with a specialization in Toxic Substance Management and serves in multiple industry leading EHS trade organizations.