Lisa Steed
“People-centered leadership” is one of those phrases that sounds meaningful in a conference room and gets tested immediately on an actual route. In a delivery operation, where drivers are moving fast, timelines are tight, and the margin for error has real consequences, leadership either works or it doesn’t. The team knows within the first few … Read more
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2026 runs September 13 through 19, and for the 38th consecutive year, the American Trucking Associations is inviting the country to pause and recognize the people who keep goods moving across every corner of the nation. More than 80% of U.S. communities rely exclusively on trucks to meet their freight … Read more
The Women In Trucking Association’s Accelerate! Conference & Expo runs October 25 through 28, 2026 in Dallas, Texas, and if you work anywhere in transportation and haven’t been paying attention to it, now is the time to start. This isn’t a generic industry event with a women’s panel bolted on at the end. It’s built … Read more
The Non-Traditional Path That Built Two Successful Transportation Companies Business schools teach strategy, finance, and operations management. What they don’t teach particularly well is how to read a room, build real trust with a team of drivers, or navigate the kind of human complexity that shows up every single day in a delivery operation. Lisa … Read more
A recent piece from the Eno Center for Transportation lays out something worth pausing on: over the past decade, women’s representation in senior leadership across all corporate sectors climbed from 17% to 29%. In transportation specifically, women now hold 28% of C-suite positions and 34.5% of supervisory roles. That’s more than just a statistic. That’s … Read more
