By Steve Saltzgiver
Wow! It’s hard to believe we’re coming up on another year since the inaugural Fleet Success Summit was held in Mesa, Arizona!
However, I’m really looking forward to our second event, March 21-22, 2023, at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas! This year, the slogan of “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” will be violated as attendees will take back some priceless fleet management gems and best practices to significantly improve their operations.
Those of us who attended the 2022 Fleet Success Summit in Mesa took away many important best practices to greatly improve our organizations. As a recap for newcomers to the Fleet Success model, the event is centered around our Four Pillars of Fleet Success:
1. Stakeholder Satisfaction
2. Intentional Culture
3. Resource Efficiency
4. Risk Management
Last year, we were dazzled by a dozen of the brightest and best business and fleet professionals who shared their secrets to success. We heard from such speakers as Mike Pitcher, former CEO of LeasePlan and author of The 7 ‘Ls’ of Leadership; Sam Bradford with Dutch Bros. who spoke about team engagement; Brett Gilliland with Elite Entrepreneurship; Ed Smith CEO of Agile Fleet; Paul Lauria, former CEO at Mercury Associates and foremost expert in today’s fleet management practices. The RTA Fleet team included Facundo Tassara, Jeff Jenkins, Michael Braband, Marc Rogers, Josh Turley, RTA CEO; and myself. The event concluded with a fantastic keynote from Kristen Hadeed, entrepreneur/business owner and author of Permission to Screw Up: How I learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong.
In preparation for this year’s event, we are assembling an excellent cast of experts to exceed our inaugural Fleet Success Summit event. This lineup is sure to delight and educate attendees. While we’re still finalizing the complete cast of speakers, we are proud to announce the following headliners who have agreed to join us in 2023:
• Mike Pitcher
• Sam Bradford
• Tim Ammon
• Don Osterberg
• Maria Neve
• Al Curtis
• Christine Rogers
• Craig Grabow
