Trust Matters: Empowering Leaders to Foster Team Trust and Performance

Includes a Live Web Event on 04/09/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

Overview
Speaker(s)

Experience Level: Any level of experience

This presentation explores the pivotal role of trust in engineering teams, emphasizing its impact on performance, communication, and overall success. Using Patrick Lencioni's "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" as a framework, the presentation will highlight the detrimental effects of a lack of trust, leading to team dysfunction. Attendees will learn practical strategies to build and maintain trust, conflict resolution techniques to promote a culture of honesty and transparency, and helping set strategies for leaders to model trustworthy behavior. The speakers who attended the 2024 NSPE Women's Leadership Program will share share strategies and tools for building trust discussed in the program.

Organized by the Women’s Leadership Program Task Force

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize how trust impacts team performance, communication, and overall success.

2. Identify the consequences of an absence of trust and how it leads to team dysfunction.

3. Learn practical techniques for fostering vulnerability, open communication, and personal connections within the team.

4. Develop skills to address and resolve conflicts constructively, promoting a culture of honesty and transparency.

5. Understand the importance of modeling trustworthy behavior and creating an environment where team members feel safe and valued.

1 PDH

Pricing:

NSPE Members: FREE

Non-members: $75.00 (Join NSPE today and save on this purchase.)

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Edith Peters, P.E.

Transportation Project Manager

Freese and Nichols

Edith Peters is a Transportation Project Manager at Freese and Nichols (FNI). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from UNC Charlotte and has 18 years of experience in engineering consulting. Edith has a strong background performing transportation planning, traffic engineering, and transportation design for municipalities and state agencies. Her project experience includes traffic forecasting, traffic capacity analysis, roadway design, streetscape design, multi-use path and greenway design, traffic control, signing and delineation, NEPA planning and documentation, public involvement, and feasibility studies. Edith currently serves as the ACEC/NCDOT Transportation Conference Committee Co-Chair and as the WTS Charlotte Metro Chapter Representative to the WTS Southeast Region Council.

Morgan McIlwain, P.E., PMP

Associate/Program Manager

Freese and Nichols

Morgan McIlwain holds a BS in Civil Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) as well as a Project Management Professional (PMP). She serves as an Associate and Program Manager at Freese and Nichols with 19 years of experience. In her role, she develops and manages large-scale, complex programs for municipal clients. Morgan excels at leading interactive stakeholder engagement meetings and effectively managing multiple projects, consultants, and subconsultants to achieve program goals.