Lead Forward: ASSP Volunteer and Staff Leadership Development is part of the investment ASSP makes in our leaders. Through this course, you will have the opportunity to gain information, tools, and resources to help you leverage your strengths to be successful in your role. Over the coming months, you will explore four modules to support you in your ASSP volunteer and staff role and beyond. As a virtual experience, each module will feature online content.
Upon completion of the Leadership Experience, you will be able to:
- Apply Strengths to gain buy-in and maximize results.
- Recognize how meaningful conversations build trust.
- Explain how to leverage a growth mind-set to motivate action.
- Identify personal listening roadblocks and practice active listening.
- Understand the needs of followers.
- Create a personal vision for leading through influence.
Levels (Experience with Topic)
Advanced: 10+ years
Instructor(s)
Jennifer McNelly is the chief executive officer of the American Society of Safety Professionals. McNelly has 30 years of association, government, regulatory and business experience. She leads 75 staff members and more than 39,000 safety and health professionals around the globe, strengthening the Society’s position as a leading voice while fostering a collaborative culture of member engagement, performance, accountability and innovation.
Arielle Semmel, Ph.D., is the senior manager, communities, at the American Society of Safety Professionals. She has worked for nearly 20 years in the nonprofit and education sectors, fulfilling a range of roles providing direct service, designing and implementing enrichment programming, creating and facilitating trainings and courses for adult learners, and managing program development and assessment.
Sue Trebswether is director of communications with ASSP. She provides strategic and editorial direction to the organization’s efforts to provide content that helps occupational safety and health professionals protect workers and improve organizational performance. She holds a B.S. in English from Central Michigan University and an M.A. in Communications from Johns Hopkins University.
Length
12 months
Instruction Method
Self-paced study, videos
Consent
By registering for our professional development events, you consent to the use and distribution of your image or voice in photographs, videos, audio and other electronic reproductions of our events and activities.
Attendees also agree to adhere to ASSP’s Code of Professional Conduct. ASSP reserves the right to remove attendees not behaving consistent with the Code of Conduct.