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Professional Development Virtual Training Series | Presented by ACT's Professional Development Committee
This professional development series is designed to support the growth of TDM professionals working in complex, high-pressure, and evolving environments. Based on feedback from our Professional Development survey, leadership skill-building emerged as a key need across career stages — and this series responds directly to that input.
Session 4: Feedback and Influence: How Conversations Shape Action - Thursday, November 5
$25 for members, $100 for non-members
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Feedback and influence play a central role in how people shape decisions, relationships, and outcomes. This session explores how conversations can guide thinking, strengthen collaboration, and move ideas forward without relying on pressure or manipulation. Participants will:
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“Nudging” our way to mode shift [ACT Book Club]
November 12 at 2 p.m. ET
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein explores how subtle changes in the way choices are presented can significantly influence human behavior. Through the lens of behavioral economics, the authors demonstrate why people don't always make rational decisions, and how "choice architecture" can be designed to encourage better outcomes while preserving freedom of choice.
For transportation professionals, Nudge offers valuable insight into one of the core challenges of Transportation Demand Management (TDM): influencing travel behavior. Whether the goal is encouraging transit use, carpooling, active transportation, or telework, or shaping smarter parking management, TDM practitioners rely on understanding how people make decisions and what motivates them to change habits. The concepts in Nudge provide a framework for designing programs, incentives, communications, and policies that make sustainable transportation choices easier, more attractive, and more likely to be adopted.
This discussion features Chris Bongorno, TDM-CP and Mitzi Alex, AICP of Toole Design.