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Rachel Sladin is a safety consultant at Marsh & McLennan Agency. She is responsible for identifying safety hazards and providing solutions to help minimize risk for clients. This includes offering both on-site and remote safety consultations, safety trainings and meetings, policy reviews and implementation and driver hiring program reviews.

Sladin excels at creating policies that improve the understanding between safety and operations with a heavy focus on transparency and driver buy-in. Her extensive experience of client services includes program digitization, CSA/SMS program analyses, review and revamping of driver recruiting and hiring qualifications and a variety of training modules for drivers and operational staff. Additionally, she provides expertise in acquisition workflows from notifying the drivers through their first year with the new company.

Prior to joining Marsh & McLennan Agency, Sladin served as the safety and recruiting manager at Mark-It Express Logistics, LLC and as a pool chassis biller at ITI Intermodal, Inc.

Amanda Maynard has over 10 years of experience in consulting, business development, project management, and human resource management. Ms. Maynard has a track record of delivering exceptional results in areas focused on growth and profitability. She brings industry experience in Fleet Maintenance and DOT Compliance. Ms. Maynard holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance.

Jeff has over thirty-five years of transportation and safety experience along with approximately ten years being responsible for education and training CDL employees for post-secondary education institutions. He is responsible for overseeing the CDL program and projects as it relates to compliance, curriculum, and operations personnel hiring, training, and development.

Lindsey Trent is the Co-Founder and President of the Next Generation in Trucking Association, a non-profit trade association with the mission to promote trucking as a positive career field and create trucking programs while encouraging training and employment of young people in the trucking industry; and connecting them to training and employment opportunities. She is passionate about introducing young people to trucking and the opportunities it can provide, leading her to revolutionize the industry by launching education and industry partnerships that aid in creating a skilled, diverse, and equitable workforce.

Sarah has been in the trucking industry for just over a decade and has been with Ryder since the beginning. She started her career as a Rental Manager Trainee, a level-entry position at Ryder, as soon as she graduated from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Over the years, she has had multiple promotions and is now a Director of Operations for Eastern and Western Canada. She enjoys being responsible for more than 4500 units and keeping 100 technicians safe while they work on heavy duty vehicles.  

Safety being Ryder’s priority, Sarah prides her team for winning Ryder’s Chairman Safety Award in 2023 meaning there were no injuries in her Business Unit, and for finishing second position in 2022. She is looking forward to many more years with Ryder.

Sarah Goodwin is a senior vice president at Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) with a primary focus on the transportation industry. Her role is to identify, analyze and control risks that could impact a company’s employees, earnings and operations. With more than 20 years in the industry, Goodwin is an advocate for her clients and works closely with them to understand their business and search for creative methods to control risk in the most cost-effective manner.

Goodwin earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing from Ohio University and is a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC). She is a member of the Ohio Trucking Association, Miami Valley Transportation Club and Women in Trucking. Goodwin also volunteers with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, Prison Fellowship Ministry, Dress for Success and the American Cancer Society.