Start Date: 10/23/2024 12:00 PM EDT
End Date: 10/23/2024 1:00 PM EDT
Venue Name: Zoom
Organization Name:
League of Railway Women
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Part 2: The LRW Mentorship Program
During this webinar, we will hear from LRW members who have successfully developed mentorship relationships, sharing more about how their relationship works and how they achieve their goals.
What will attendees learn?
- How the LRW Mentorship program works to connect members with mentors and mentees, featuring a Q&A with an existing mentor and mentee in the program.
Why should someone attend?
- Learn more about LRW’s Mentorship Program, MentorCity, and the membership benefits of connecting with others across the industry through the program.
- Nicole McKinstry - Vice President, Sales Operations, The Greenbrier Companies
Nicole McKinstry is the Vice President, Sales Operations at The Greenbrier Companies, a position she assumed in 2024. Greenbrier is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of freight rail equipment. McKinstry has served in various roles for Greenbrier since 2009, ranging from entry-level to upper management.
As one of the most senior women at Greenbrier outside of the C-Suite, McKinstry takes her leadership position seriously. She enjoys mentoring women entering the rail industry and creates a welcoming space for them to grow their professional careers.
She is an active community member and participates in Greenbrier’s volunteer initiatives. In addition to volunteering at food and clothing banks and cleaning up parks, she actively encourages her reports to participate in company-sponsored volunteer events. On her own time, she coordinates company teams for runs and other events that benefit health-related nonprofits. These team-building exercises have increased cross-functional and encourage employees to work well together, both inside and outside the office, while supporting worthy causes.
- Kristen Canfield - Tax Program Manager, Indurante & Associates, Inc.
Kristen Canfield is the Tax Program Manager for Indurante & Associates, Inc., the leading provider of rail car property tax services for owned and leased private rail car fleets. As early as 2001, when she started her career as an office clerk for Indurante, Kristen realized how much paperwork was involved in the rail car tax compliance arena and had ideas on ways to streamline, reduce, and organize the business. Through the years her skill and job responsibilities evolved providing her training and knowledge of both the analytic and executable work involved in handing this type of tax.
She is a part of the team that worked with developers to create Railmarx, a proprietary database system for private rail car fleets. A new application enhanced efficiency and required a wholesale change to reporting processes and filing procedures. She oversees the accounts, funds, and payments on behalf of their clients, as well as accumulating mileage data for state tax reporting. She assists with the review and completion of tax returns for over 30 states. Currently, with over 20 years’ experience in the property tax specialty area, Kristen is a recognized leader among peers and customers.
