Great Negotiation Skills Are Around the Corner
End 2025 strong with professional development
Next book club to feature transportation leader Meg Merritt
Looking to strengthen your communication and negotiation skills in the year ahead? Join ACT’s final Book Club of the year and get a head start on your New Year’s goals with Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (By: Roger Fisher and William L. Ury) — the timeless guide to achieving successful outcomes without sacrificing relationships.
While we won’t have the authors with us, we’re excited to welcome Meg Merritt, a dynamic mobility expert who has used the principles in Getting to Yes and other negotiation strategies to advance her career and lead complex projects with confidence. Meg will share real-world insights on applying these lessons in TDM and beyond — and how building your negotiation toolkit can help you reach your professional and personal goals.
Whether you’ve read the whole book or just want to join the conversation, come ready for an engaging, practical, and inspiring discussion with your ACT peers. See you on December 10!
Take part in this eye-opening talk!
Wednesday, December 10 at 3 p.m. ET
Discussion led by Lauren Mattern of Journey
Attendance qualifies for 2 TDM-CP credits.
Meet Meg Merritt
Meg brings 20 years of experience managing complex projects that deliver transit and emerging mobility solutions to communities. With a background as both a transit planner and a Professor of Planning, she excels at the art of storytelling to garner project support. She specializes in planner-led engagement with a particular talent for explaining engineering concepts to the public and equally, helping technical practitioners reach solutions that reflect community priorities. Her project management style emphasizes building rapport, active listening, consensus-building, and leveraging the unique strengths of multidisciplinary teams.
Meg was recently nominated to the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Oversight and Project Selection (TOPS) Committee. She was named to Mass Transit Magazine’s “40 Under 40” in 2020 and has contributed thought leadership to CityLab and The New York Times.
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