Women Mentoring Women: Strategies to Lift Us As We Rise (Panel Discussion)
Tracks: Leadership, HR/Talent Management
Tracks: Leadership, HR/Talent Management
Today, women make up approximately half of the workforce and have proven that they’re just as talented and capable as their male counterparts. But while the percentages of women are increasing in the C-suite, board rooms, middle-management, and on-the-road among professional drivers, we have a long way to progress in transportation.
Many believe that a primary issue that holds women back is a lack of mentorship. While you can take advantage of such mentoring programs as WIT’s LeadHERtrucking, there are a number of active steps you can take to leverage mentor/mentee relationships. Attend this panel discussion to:
Sarah Statlander has more than 20 years of human resources experience and a proven record of leveraging business and technical knowledge to provide customer focused business solutions that align with corporate values and goals. Statlander is a thoughtful leader and communicator with an acute focus on problem solving and providing multi-faceted, customer-focused solutions that ensure the needs of the business are met, while also ensuring that actions are living up to the commitments to an organization’s most valuable resource: its people. Her extensive background includes expertise in change and transition management, strategy development and execution, talent management and succession planning, results-oriented change management, process improvement and implementation, policy development, employee and labor relations, and compliance.
Statlander has spent most of her career as an HR Generalist and Business Partner providing support to a variety of client groups in a variety of industries. Upon returning to Yellow in 2015, she also has had the opportunity to provide leadership to many of the HR functions including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Corporate & Field HR, HR Compliance Programs, Recognition Programs, and Compensation. A pivotal point has been the opportunity to provide leadership during the transition and integration of the Human Resources function for the organization as the company transitioned to Yellow.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Minnesota State University, Mankato and a Master’s Degree in Human Resources/Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.