Being a Public Transportation CEO: Leadership and Lessons Learned

The role of a transportation agency CEO is multidisciplinary, requiring focus on multiple fronts and long term vision for the future. Responsibilities cover operations, funding and revenue challenges, stakeholder interactions, communications, marketing and board interactions and management. Being a CEO also requires handling human resource challenges, including staffing shortages, employee retention and career path mapping. Are you a junior, mid or executive leader in the public or private sector? Join this discussion about ways to work effectively at all levels of a transit agency, with everything that involves. Our speakers bring high-level leadership experience and different perspectives based on the structure at their home agency. What will you bring back to better understand, influence or lead yours? What will you learn that may influence your own career choices?

Moderator: Jay Fox, JD, Executive Director, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT
Leslie Richards, General Manager, Chief Executive Officer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Philadelphia, PA
Katharine Kelleman, AICP, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Regional Transit, Pittsburgh, PA
Richard Farr, Executive Director, rabbittransit, Harrisburg, PA