Collaborative Leadership in Transportation

 

This April 2009 event featured a conversation with Commissioner Tom Sorel of Minnesota Department of Transportation.  Sorel discussed several examples of collaboration within transportation including projects related to the 35-W construction. He offered reflections from his 30-year public service career on servant leadership, organizational change, and collaboration.

 

Tom Sorel became the Minnesota Commissioner of Transportation in 2008. He has 30 years’ experience with the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Highway Administration including major projects team leader in the Washington, D.C. Office of Infrastructure and U.S. DOT intermodal liaison for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.  Sorel has an MBA degree from Thomas College, a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the SUNY-Buffalo and experience in executive management, project management and conflict management.