The NACS Leadership for Success program provides rising leaders in the industry an invaluable opportunity to discover personal strengths that they can use to grow their career, while creating a more profitable performance-oriented environment within their company.

Developed for district managers, supervisors and other convenience retailers who want to improve their work performance, the program focuses on arming participants with skills they can immediately use on the job to improve their leadership. A generous endowment by The Hershey Company makes the program affordable for retailers of all sizes.

Participants will:

• Increase their understanding of how their actions affect their personal effectiveness
• Discover how they work with others as well as how others perceive them as a colleague
• Explore their self-perception
• Define a vision of their ideal leader-self
• Gain tools to improve their leadership effectiveness and build better relationships
• Chart a course of action to apply what they’ve learned and become the leader they want to be

The six days of the on-site program are comprehensive and intense, and it’s just the beginning of the process for participants. In the months following, team members apply what they learned at the program by working on a group project, which will conclude with a presentation and a graduation ceremony at the 2022 NACS Show.

The 2021 Leadership for Success class included:

• Justin Allih, operations supervisor, RaceTrac Petroleum Inc.
• Kelly Putnam, district leader-Crosby’s, Reid Petroleum Corp.
• Ryan Royse, manager, EG America LLC
• Leigh Buckner, district manager, Tri Star Energy LLC dba Twice Daily
• Janie Reese, district manager, Tri Star Energy LLC dba Twice Daily
• Linda Lefkowitz, senior district manager, EG America LLC
• Roger Messer, district manager, Tri Star Energy LLC dba Twice Daily
• Lewis Taylor, district manager, Love’s Travel Stops
• Carlos Morales, district manager, Love’s Travel Stops
• Dallas Heckel, district manager, Love’s Travel Stops
• Jeff Gamm, district manager, Love’s Travel Stops
• Chris Norder, district manager, Love’s Travel Stops
• Debbie Goins, human resources manager, Herdrich Petroleum Corp.
• Jerry Warford, director of operations, Herdrich Petroleum Corp.

Learn more at www.convenience.org/education. Contact Brandi Mauro, education program manager, with questions at [email protected](703) 518-4223.