{"id":2085,"date":"2015-03-31T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2015-03-31T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:08:49","slug":"pactrans-student-leadership-training-marsha-bomar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-student-leadership-training-marsha-bomar\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans Student Leadership Training: Marsha Bomar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Organized by<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10<\/p>\n

Presentation Title<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Language of Leadership<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This class will teach you the right language skills to put you on the verbal track to be recognized by leadership in a positive way.\u00a0 Know the words to be heard in meetings and getting your name remembered.\u00a0 You work hard \u2013 add these skills to your executive toolkit.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bomar_Marsha_headshot_web\"Marsha Anderson Bomar<\/b> is a Senior Transportation Principal for Stantec Consulting Inc. in Duluth, Georgia. \u00a0She is the former President and Founder of Street Smarts, Inc., a planning, engineering and design firm, and Data Smarts, a data collection and management firm, established in 1990 which she sold to Stantec Consulting Services Inc., in 2010. Marsha has received many awards throughout her career. She had the honor of being the first woman to serve as International President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and was the first woman to receive the ITE Burton Marsh Distinguished Service Award. Last year she was awarded the WTS Atlanta chapter Leadership in Diversity award. \u00a0She served as the President of the Transportation and Development Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for the 2009-2010 term. She was also recognized by the University of Massachusetts Amherst ITE chapter as the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award recipient for 2009 for her outstanding leadership affecting women in transportation and remarkable contributions to the field.\u00a0 In 2010, Marsha received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Community Service Award for outstanding contributions to her community and her profession. Also in 2010, she received the Karl Bevins Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) which is given to recognized, highly competent, and professional engineers who practice in the field of traffic and\/or transportation over a number of years.\u00a0 Marsha served on the local Women Transportation Seminar (WTS) Board for many years and is a panelist at the National WTS Leadership conference every year. She received the Atlanta chapter WTS Woman of the Year and WTS Employer of the Year in 2003. Marsha is the Treasurer of the International Board and will continue as a Director until 2016.\u00a0 Over the span of her career, Marsha has participated in and led many technical committees of the Transportation Research Board including Urban Goods Movement and various Data committees. Currently she is the Chair of the Women\u2019s Issues in Transportation committee, and this year the group held its fifth research conference in Paris, France. Marsha earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Masters in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. \u00a0She also holds a Masters of Civil Engineering with a concentration in Transportation from Princeton University.\u00a0 Marsha is the author of hundreds of publications, articles, and studies.<\/p>\n

For questions, please contact Ms. Maria Bayya, Asst. Director for PacTrans, at pactrans@uw.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 206.685.6648<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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