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With factors such as shifting demographics and buyer behavior, values, and priorities in doing business, the commercial freight transportation industry is going through unprecedented change at extraordinary speed. Now more than ever, it’s critical that we have diverse thinking and leadership at the top – particularly when corporate culture, policies, and leadership style can have a direct correlation on productivity and accountability. 

Fortunately, the transportation industry has acknowledged this fact and is making gender diversity in leadership a priority. In fact, according to the 2024 WIT Index, participating companies indicate that an average of 28% of their C-suite executives are women and another 34.5% of their company leaders (those with supervisory responsibilities) are women. In addition, participating companies in this year’s WIT Index reported that 29.5% of their boards of directors are women.

Today, many career-driven women in the industry have intentionally taken on leadership roles to drive success, change, and profitability – all while navigating an industry riddled with disruption. Attend this session, five of these female leaders will share their experiences, perspectives and answers to these questions:

  • How can today’s successful leaders plan their career paths and maximize success and results in their career? These female leaders will share their career stories and provide practical tips on how you can develop a roadmap to leadership success in your career.
  • What principles are best applied in effective leadership roles? Whether it’s exploring opportunities, identifying solutions, creating innovation or exploiting success, these leaders will give advice on how to best accelerate success for you, your team, and your company.
  • Specifically, what can effective leaders do to have a positive impact on productivity and accountability of their teams and individual team players? These tips will ultimately help you better understand how to create a culture in your division or company that inspires productivity and humble accountability and improves the trust and collaboration of all.