The 2018 MPTA Conference is fast approaching! This event offers attendees a chance to meet and gather with other transit professionals, stakeholders, elected officials and interested citizens to discuss opportunities to shape policy, develop networks, and collaborate to share knowledge and create new ideas for transit in Missouri. This year’s line-up for key note speakers are not to be missed.
The 2018 keynote speakers include:
- Charlotte DiBartolomeo
- Putting a Face on Transit Operations & Transit Driver Burnout – Discussing best ways to address transit driver burnout and maintain a positive mental health environment for drivers. Charlotte has done conflict coaching with managers, developed and instructs curricula for workforce development and transformational leadership, and facilitates dialogue processes within both the public and private sectors.
- Charlotte DiBartolomeo, M.A.C.T., CEO of Red Kite Project – DiBartolomeo, earned a Master’s in Conflict Transformation with a specialty in Intercultural Service, Leadership & Management from the School for International Training Graduate Institute in Vermont. She has studied post-war development in Sarajevo, Bosnia and has served as an NGO delegate to the United Nations at the 2003 Economics Conference for Women. She has trained in the transportation industry for eight years, presented at APTA’s Sustainability Conference in 2012 and has been published numerous times in Metro Magazine
- Scott Bogren
- Strategic Advocacy for Transit & Additional Keynote- Learn how to effectively communicate with elected officials at all levels from someone who has been doing so for nearly 30 years. Communication techniques, goal setting and outcome-based advocacy will be front and center in this session. Be sure to bring your challenges to the table. Additionally, he will discuss, from the national perspective, where is public transit headed? Scott will discuss investment, private-sector partnerships, innovative technologies, and much more.
- Scott Bogren , Community Transportation Association of America Executive Director. Bogren has been writing about and covering the community and public transportation industry for nearly three decades. His experience with CTAA includes being Editor-in-Chief of Community Transportation magazine; crafting the Association’s various legislative, policy and regulatory positions on Capitol Hill; and shaping CTAA’s communications, training and leadership activities.
- Chris Keefover discussing Homeland Security and Transit
- Chris Keefover, Field Intelligence Officer, Kansas & Western Missouri, Office of Intelligence and Analysis / Field Intelligence, Kansas City International Airport, Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Keefover has 20 years of combined operational experience conducting aerial intelligence collections and providing support to law enforcement investigations. Keefover has supported Combined Joint Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the US Northern Command and has briefed to the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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