Core Leadership Competencies at Work:

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Leadership APTA
Core Leadership Competencies at Work
Leading through Good and Tough Times

• Vida Covington
• Lee Davis
• Tammy Haenftling
• Richard Hannasch
• Kenneth Ronsse

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Interview Participants
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT Diane Eidam, Deputy Executi
ve Director, San Diego Association of
Governments Nathaniel P. Ford, Executive Director
/CEO, SF Municipal Transportation Agency
Gary Gallegos, Executive Director, San Diego
Association of Governments Paul Jablonski, CEO an
d GM, San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
Karen H. King, Executive Director, North County
Transit District (Oceanside) Celia G. Kupersmith,
GM, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway Transportation
District Art Leahy, CEO, Orange County Transporta
tion Authority Gary Thomas, President/Executive D
irector, Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Ron Tober, Executive Director/CEO, Charlotte Area
Transit System Matt Tucker, Chief of Operations,
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Steve Wylie, Assistant Executive Director,
Southern California Regional Rail Authority
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Interview Participants
BOARD CHAIRS/MEMBERS Mark Enoch, Chairman, Dalla
s Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors
Park Helms, Board Chair Chair of County
Commissioners Charlotte Area Transit System
Carole Ward Allen, President, San Francisco Bay
Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors
CONSULTANT PROFESSIONALS Kevin Adams, Preside
nt, Adams Consulting Pete Cipolla, Vice President
and Rail and Transit Practice Manager HMMG
Joe Maniachi, President and CEO, Transportation
and Tunnels HMMG Lisa Mills, President, The Mills
Group
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Core Competencies for Effective Leadership

• Demonstrate high business ethics, integrity,
  trust
  
• Establish a vision, articulate values, enable a
  strategy
  
• Demonstrate exemplary performance, be a role
  model, develop others
  
• Collaborate, build teams, develop partnerships
• Develop stakeholders, constituencies, and
  partnerships
  
• Make decisions/solve problems
• Communicate and present your message, listen and
  respect others
  
• Demonstrate entity and industry knowledge,
  identify challenges, apply best practices
  
• Be public and private industry stewards
• Build and develop relationship and partnership
  with labor unions
  
• Celebrate and appreciate diversity and
• High job performance.

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• Northridge Earthquake

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Believe in Your Vision.
Teach What You Believe.
Practice What You Teach.
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Core Competency

• Establish a vision,
• articulate values.

Believe in your vision.
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Core Competency

• Communicate and present your message.

Teach what you believe.
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• A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte
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Core Competency

• Demonstrate high business ethics, integrity, and
  trust.

Practice what you teach.
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Believe in Your Vision.
Teach What You Believe.
Practice What You Teach.