Description

In order to grow an apprenticeship program, servant leadership is necessary to achieve world-class education, customer service and facilities. Learn why putting the needs and objectives of the team ahead of one’s own benefit will improve the organization. Attendees will gain tools to embrace servant leadership to drive greater engagement, accountability and morale.

Speakers

• David Nott

  Electrical Training Institute of Southern California

  David started his inside wireman apprenticeship in 1995. Soon after turning out, he began running work as a foreman then moved on to project management. In 2005, he became the Assistant Chapter Manager/Apprentice Coordinator of Los Angeles NECA for the next 17 years and served as a Pension, Health and JATC Trustee.

  In December 2022, David accepted the offer of Training Director at the Los Angeles Electrical Training Institute. The ETI boasts a 144,000 square foot facility and over 2,000 current students and 120 employees.

  David adopted a Servant Leadership management style, allowing employees to have more authority in decisions regarding their department but also making them accountable for those decisions. This has allowed for a large but positive culture change with the students, senior staff and clerical employees.
  

• Steven Rose

  Electrical Training Institute of Southern California.

  Steve has been involved in the Union electrical industry for over 42 years.

  He worked for various contractors in leadership positions with a focus on planning, prefab, and packaging, until his retirement from Los Angeles local 11 in 2006.

  He was a commercial electrical inspector for the City of Los Angeles from his retirement from Los Angeles Local 11 in 2006 until 2010.

  He left the City in 2010 for the position of Field Support Services Manager for the Southern California region of Rosendin Electric until 2015.

  He served as the Corporate Director of Prefab and Packaging for Rosendin Electric from 2015 until 2022.

  He has been a recognized leader in the prefab and packaging space since 2000 and has presented at numerous industry conferences since 2017.

  He has been with the Electrical Training Institute of Southern California since 1996, has taught all years of the program, and was a senior instructor coaching, mentoring, and serving instructors and students alike from 2015 to 2022.

  He is now the Assistant Training Director overseeing education for the largest apprenticeship program in the United States.