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The difference between success and failure in the transportation and supply chain industry all comes down to teamwork. The strongest teams will consistently outperform expectations and overcome adversity. Weak teams will trip over the most insignificant of hurdles and cost your company money. However, building a high performing team of drivers requires all hands on deck. Attend this session to learn:

  • The art (and science) of hiring great people
  • Ideas on how to unite your team by focusing on specific goals
  • Ways to leverage individual motivation strategies
  • How to create innovative career paths to attract great drivers

MEET THE SPEAKER

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    Roquita Coleman-Williams

    Managing Director
    Coyote Logistics

    Roquita Coleman-Williams is the Senior Director of Intermodal Business Development at Coyote Logistics, a leading global third-party logistics provider and UPS Company. Since joining the Coyote team in 2021, she has played a crucial role in developing and executing the organization's intermodal growth strategy. Before joining Coyote Logistics, Roquita held various commercial leadership roles with UPS and CN Rail. Roquita's primary focus in each position has been designing, developing, and implementing business development and commercial expansion for multimodal solutions.

    Named MBJ Super Women in Business and Progressive Railroad Magazine's Rising Star of North American railroads, she has led teams of sellers to unlock extraordinary value for Fortune 200 companies across three continents and a dozen business verticals. In 2016 she accepted an opportunity to work in the railroad's most essential operations role, where she earned a license as a train conductor. In a 2019 TEDx Talk, Roquita drew on the life-changing experience to share how corporations can empower employees to help create the diversity, inclusion, and belonging they envision.

    Roquita received undergraduate and graduate degrees in organizational leadership from the University of Memphis and lives in Memphis, TN.