Education

Educational Sessions


Winning the Mental Game

9:00 – 10:30 am, Saturday, July 16th

Winning the Mental Game is an often elusive process that people spend their entire lives trying to figure out through trial and error. In this session, participants will learn fundamentals of how our brains work and how it impacts how we show up, and receive skills to help them manage their minds like they manage their business. This is session will be highly engaging and will help attendees connect dots from their personal performance to their team and organizational performance. 

As a former soccer player at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Selking started her career in human resources with a global manufacturing company. She founded the Selking Performance Group, where their mission is to help individuals, sports teams, and business organizations unleash performance excellence by tapping into the power of Mindset and Leadership. From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, Dr. Selking takes a top-down, bottom-up, and culturally relevant approach to high performance. Her expertise is in optimizing human performance by partnering with leaders to build systems that are most conducive to high performance, teaching people about how their brain works, and providing strategies to build mindsets that facilitate success. 


EPDs: The Context and the Process

9:00 – 10:00 am, Sunday, July 17th

The objective of this presentation is to educate the asphalt and aggregate industry stakeholders on the top-down legislation pertaining to Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), the process of developing EPDs, and the future of constructing and maintaining sustainable pavements. The session will educate attendees on what pavement sustainability is, what EPDs are, top-down federal and state legislations requiring cradle to gate (material extraction, transportation, and production) EPDs, the process of developing a product and facility specific EPD, and the next steps to ensure construction of high-quality sustainable pavements. 

Chait Bhat, Ph.D., LCACP is a sustainability engineer at the Asphalt Institute. His responsibilities include providing technical and organizational support to AI’s member companies for achieving their individual sustainability goals as well as to contribute towards furthering the sustainability initiatives of the asphalt industry. Dr. Bhat previously worked as a Research Civil Engineer at the Turner Fairbanks Highway Research Center providing technical support for FHWA’s sustainability efforts such as LCAPave and RealCost. Dr. Bhat graduated with a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological University in Fall 2020 with a focus on developing life cycle information models that would facilitate the development of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) during public procurement decision-making.


Creating a Culture of Safety

10:00 – 10:30 am, Sunday, July 17th

     

Wrapping up the weekend's educational series,  Brian Peters will present a case study of tools for creating a safety culture that understands and allows people to make mistakes and fail safely.

Brian Peters is the EH&S Manager for Mulzer Crushed Stone Family of Companies, A CRH company.  Brian has been in the Safety and Environmental Regulatory fields for 30 years and has been with Mulzer for 24 years. During his career, he has seen many reinventions of the safety field and by far the most successful phase he has ever been a part of is the change to a Human Performance based philosophy of safety.