WIFM Brings Fleet Leadership Panel and Career Workshop to NAFA

Fleet professionals can deliver strong results and still struggle to make their contribution visible. Women in Fleet Management (WIFM) is addressing that gap with two sessions at NAFA on Monday, April 13, 2026: a panel on translating performance into leadership voice, followed by a workshop where attendees will create tools for recording and presenting their work.

Making fleet results visible

The panel, “Translating Performance into Leadership Voice,” runs from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Room 25C. Its focus is a familiar career challenge: capable professionals may assume that doing good work will be enough to earn influence. The session describes this as the “Humble Trap,” where people let results speak for themselves instead of explaining what those results mean to the business.

That explanation matters in fleet operations because a contribution can take many forms. Work in safety, operations, finance or sustainability may affect business value, reduce risk or produce a measurable return. The panel’s premise is that professionals need to connect their work to those outcomes and communicate that connection clearly. The source description does not provide specific examples or figures, so the discussion is framed around participants’ experiences rather than a promised set of quantified case studies.

The panel brings together women leaders in fleet who have worked through self-doubt and learned to advocate for their expertise. They will discuss moving from behind-the-scenes roles into strategic conversations. For attendees, the practical question is how to make day-to-day work legible to people making decisions: what changed, what the person did, and why the outcome mattered.

That framing can help people prepare for leadership conversations across different fleet functions. Someone focused on safety may need to explain how their work addressed exposure to risk; an operations professional may need to describe a process improvement in business terms. The session identifies these areas as examples of where fleet leaders work, without prescribing a single formula for presenting every contribution.

A workshop built around documented impact

The NAFA and WIFM workshop, “Build Your Book,” follows from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Room 11. It combines ideas from The Gap and The Gain, which the description characterizes as measuring progress backward from outcomes, with Confident by Choice. Participants will use guided exercises and time to work alongside peers to document, frame and communicate their professional impact.

The session is designed to produce working materials, rather than leave attendees with only general advice. Participants will complete a Brag Bingo Card and a Brag Book Template. The template uses the S.A.R. method: Situation, Action, Result. In practice, that structure gives a person a way to record the context for a piece of work, describe their own actions and state the result. Keeping those elements together can make it easier to recall contributions and explain them in a concise, consistent way.

The organizers identify performance reviews, leadership conversations and career advancement within fleet management as intended uses for the tools. A written record may also help professionals distinguish individual actions from broader team outcomes when preparing to discuss their work. The workshop description does not specify how attendees should measure results or what evidence to include; those details will depend on the work each person brings to the exercises.

Two sessions, one practical thread

The schedule links the panel’s focus on leadership voice with the workshop’s emphasis on capturing achievements. The panel addresses the communication challenge; the workshop offers a structured way to assemble examples. Together, the sessions give attendees time to consider both what they have contributed and how to explain it to colleagues and leaders.

For fleet teams, that connection has a practical dimension. Work can span departments and produce outcomes that are not immediately visible outside the function where it happens. Recording the situation, action and result can give professionals a concrete starting point for explaining that work, while tying performance to business value and risk reduction can help make the explanation relevant to broader decisions.

WIFM members are featured in the panel, and WIFM hosts the workshop. The sessions are scheduled for Monday, April 13, 2026, at NAFA, with the panel in Room 25C and the workshop in Room 11. Attendees looking for a next step can leave with a completed Brag Bingo Card and a template they can adapt for future reviews and leadership discussions. More information about WIFM is available through Women in Fleet Management, and the workshop references NAFA.

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