Public Utility Management Program Concludes

The Cranwell Conference Center in Lenox, Mass. was the site of NEPPA’s Public Utility Management Program 2011, which concluded the week before Thanksgiving.

NEPPA has presented the Public Utility Management Program since 1993. It is a week-long educational program (divided into spring and fall sessions) in which participants learn or improve critical leadership skills, apply practical management techniques and strengthen their understanding of the most important developments affecting the electric utility industry in New England.

This year sessions were held on "Self-Motivation and Personal Initiative," "Critical Thinking and Learning," "People Skills" and "Business and Financial Skills" in March, and "Communication Skills," "Negotiation and Persuasion Skills," "Strategic Planning" and "Political Skills" in November.

Participants were Brian Allen and Christine Trudeau from the Princeton Municipal Light Department; Jay Anderson, Marblehead Municipal Light Department; Susan Blumenthal, Thomas Broderick, Sean Fitzgerald and Michael Lee, Westfield Gas & Electric Light Department; Nick D’Alleva and Maureen Hanifan, Reading Municipal Light Department; Paul Heanue, Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant; Robin King and John Laverty, Shrewsbury Electric and Cable Operations; Michael Kirkwood, Pascoag (Rhode Island) Utility District; Janine Newman, North Attleborough Electric Department; Anne Olivari, Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant; Philip Rohn and Roy Simoes, Peabody Municipal Light Plant and George Scully, City of Groton (Connecticut) Department of Utilities.

The Public Utility Management Program 2011 closed on a special note when NEPPA’s retiring executive director, Pat Hyland, who founded the program in 1993 and has directed it ever since, was presented with a special award.