PreConference Session | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Unlocking Fleet Management Excellence
Speaker TBA | RTA - The Fleet Sucess Company
Registration Fee: $75
Cancellation policy: By 8/15/2025, 50% administrative fee. After 8/15/2025, no refund given.
Fleet management is more than just operations—it’s about alignment, preparedness, and smart technology use. In this engaging three-hour session, industry experts from RTA will guide participants through three essential pillars of fleet success: clarity in leadership, emergency preparedness, and maximizing technology for efficiency. Through interactive discussions and practical strategies, participants will gain the knowledge and tools necessary to optimize their fleet operations and drive performance to new heights.
Session Highlights:
- Alignment Isn't Just for Tires – How Getting Clear Unlocks Your Team's Superpowers
Lack of clarity is often the biggest hurdle to success—not skill or desire. This session will provide a framework for achieving alignment within your team, helping leaders set a clear vision, prioritize key objectives, and reinforce team clarity through effective meeting cadences. When everyone is on the same page, productivity soars, allowing teams to focus on solving challenges and achieving strategic goals.
- The Crucial Role of Emergency Preparedness Plans in Fleet Management
Emergencies are unpredictable, but preparation isn’t. Participants will learn how to craft a robust emergency response plan tailored to their unique operations, ensuring they can navigate crises effectively. From identifying critical threats to coordinating response teams and tracking fleet usage for potential reimbursement, this session will equip fleet professionals with actionable strategies to maintain operational continuity during disasters.
- FMIS 101: Stop Using Your FMIS Like a Digital Filing Cabinet
Fleet management systems are often underutilized, serving as mere digital storage units rather than powerful tools for efficiency and decision-making. This session will explore the core functions of FMIS, offering insights into data-driven decision-making, automation, and predictive analytics. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to transform their FMIS into a dynamic resource that optimizes fleet performance and strategic planning.
Join this immersive session to gain practical insights, real-world examples, and expert-driven strategies that will take your fleet operations to the next level!
This description ensures a seamless connection between the three topics while maintaining a logical flow of learning throughout the session. Let me know if you'd like any adjustments!
Learning Objectives
- Establish a clear vision and framework for strategic alignment in fleet management, ensuring teams operate at peak efficiency.
- Develop an effective emergency preparedness plan tailored to fleet operations, incorporating actionable solutions for crisis management.
PreConference Session | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Increasing Your Communications Capacity
Dallas Everhardt, Ph.D., MBA | 3e Leadership
Registration fee: $ 425 (Includes Emergenetics Profile)
A minimum 16 registrants required to hold this session. Less than 16 registered
participants prior to August 1, 2025 will lead to cancellation and a refund
of any registration fees paid. Otherwise, registration fees are nonrefundable.
Registration deadline: August 1, 2025
The world, society, business and our economy are changing rapidly. Expectations for employees and business are evolving due to artificial intelligence (AI) and rapidly evolving organizational culture. Successful organizations are becoming learning organizations as technology and information is evolving at a record pace. This program is designed to help you understand the complex world of communications and tools that will help you improve relationships, customer service, conflict resolution, management, marketing and performance. This program blends best practices from education, business and psychology to help individuals and organizations understand human behavior, communicate, work together, plan and improve performance.
This workshop uses specific examples from business, local government, and higher education to explain human behavior. We use the scientifically tested Emergenetics Profile to identify thinking preferences and behaviors. The participants learn about innovative communication skills by using current examples, understanding advanced concepts, role playing and experiential learning.
Workshop Objectives:
Participants learn new skills that help them immediately improve relationships & productivity.
- Understand your own thinking and behavior preferences
- Understand how to communicate with other people who have different preferences
- Develop the ability to build teams with diverse perspectives and preferences
- Understand internal and external influences that impact self-concept and lifestyles
- Learn a deeper meaning for culture, subculture, and other factors that impact your beliefs
- How to communicate for improved relationships professionally and personally
- Communicate with your team to improve your management skills
- Working with clients to achieve marketing objectives and sales goals
- Improve your ability to Listen and to Learn
This program is the foundation for creating a culture of innovation for your organization. Communication is vital to allow Leaders to provide direction to the organization and for Managers to improve productivity. Communication is the foundation for successful learning organizations who will lead in the new global economy. Start now as the world is changing fast.
Emergenetics Profile:
The power behind the Emergenetics® Profile psychometric testing is that it measures patterns of Thinking and Behaving that emerge from your genetic blueprint and life experiences. Unlike other profiles that merge the patterns into four areas, Emergenetics measures individual preferences over seven attributes. The participants complete the profiles on-line prior to the workshop.
Key Takeaways of the Emergenetics® Profile
The Emergenetics Model provides an easy to apply visual representation that helps individuals quickly identify preferences. Customized profile results provide the opportunity to:
- Increase Team Collaboration By Leveraging Team Member Strengths
- Manage Communications to Increase Team Engagement & Motivation
- Improve Meeting Outcomes By Adapting Communication to Emergenetics Preferences of the Team
- Creating Opportunities to Manage Conflict using Healthy Debate Strategies
- Increase Ability to Gain Team Buy-In and Commitment
Each participant get their profile, a laminated guide for how to best communication with the differently styles, and their profile on a mouse pad and badge.
Here are a few quotes from prior participants in Everhart & Associates workshops:
- Eye-opening experience, learned a lot about myself and others
- Helped me to understand my co-workers
- I am excited to learn more, read the book, and have my husband take the profile
- Very beneficial, I have done others but this is more in-depth and thought out
- I really like this and know I will use these concepts, interactive &insightful
- Best session like this in my 32 year career
- Worth every penny, will help us work better and understand each other
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Dallas Everhart has worked with public and private organizations ranging from coal mines in Canada (British Columbia Resource Investment Corporation) to resort communities in Colorado (Aspen, Silverthorne and Minturn). Specific to local government, Dallas served as the Finance Director in Aspen, Colorado and the City Manager in Silverthorne, Colorado before moving into Higher Education where he was the Executive Director of Continuing Education at Colorado State University.
Dallas teaches management and marketing classes at the University of Northern Colorado including Business and Society, a class that focuses on the role of business and government in our society. Dallas also teaches in the Certified Public Manager Program at CU Denver. Dr. Everhart is routinely recognized for outstanding teaching skills.
As a teacher and a consultant, Dallas pulls from his training in business, psychology, management, marketing and education to identify and address the real issues facing organizations. Having owned and managed businesses, Dallas is able to view government issues from multiple perspectives.
Dr. Everhart’s teaching style is interactive, covers both conceptual and experiential learning, and is designed to ensure the clients return on their investment.
PreConference Session | 8:30 am - 12:30 am
Proactive Fleet Maintenance Strategies
Mike Brawley & Jeremy Angus | FASTER Asset Solutions
Registration Fee: $75
Cancellation policy: By 8/15/2025, 50% administrative fee. After 8/15/2025, no refund given.
Mike Brawley Jeremy Angus
In the demanding world of fleet management, unplanned vehicle downtime isn't just an inconvenience—it directly impacts service delivery, operational efficiency, and budget adherence. This workshop is tailored for fleet professionals committed to transitioning from reactive fixes to proactive maintenance strategies that enhance vehicle reliability and extend asset lifespan.
This session, led by seasoned Faster Assets experts, delves into proven methodologies for implementing preventive maintenance programs. Participants will explore how to leverage data analytics, adopt condition-based maintenance practices, and utilize fleet management software to anticipate issues before they escalate. By focusing on proactive measures, attendees will learn to minimize unexpected breakdowns, optimize maintenance schedules, and make informed decisions that contribute to long-term cost savings and operational excellence.
This workshop has consistently received high praise for its practical insights and actionable strategies. Secure your spot today to join a community of professionals dedicated to elevating fleet performance and reliability.
Learning Objectives
- Implement a proactive maintenance plan that reduces unexpected downtime and extends the lifespan of fleet assets by identifying and addressing issues before failure occurs.
- Leverage fleet data and software tools to develop predictive maintenance schedules and monitor key performance indicators for continuous improvement.
- Increase operational efficiency by optimizing maintenance workflows, enhancing technician productivity, and minimizing costly emergency repairs.
Mike Brawley Bio:
My role as VP of Business Development has evolved over time to include customer outreach and being the subject matter expert for our solutions. As the Senior Product Engineer, I’m actively involved in communicating our customer needs and wants to development and management to help develop the roadmap that’s made FASTER the most widely used FMIS in North America for municipal government. We’ve been able to find the elusive balance of high impact, robust function and regular feature releases with our resources that has allowed us to make a product that continually goes beyond the market demands and keeps our staff challenged without being overworked. That’s how we’ve been able to excel at everything we do, from development, implementation, support, to customer relations. The equilibrium created by understanding that every aspect of FASTER impacts each other has made my role a natural role of liaison and advocate for the whole FASTER family.
Jeremy Angus Bio:
Jeremy is an Operations, Logistics/Maintenance Management Professional and Military Veteran with 17 years of proven experience in Equipment Maintenance and Supervision. He has accomplished measurable results while leading teams up to 25 personnel in a dynamic, fast - paced environment. He also possesses a comprehensive background in Logistics, Operations, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, and Critical Thinking. Management and experience in various fleet management software programs. Jeremy is a recipient of multiple awards for outstanding performance and professionalism and innovation.
