Mentors and Succession Planning

Bateman shares how she is honored to follow in the footsteps of the recent past presidents Rafael Frias and Martha Narvaez, by focusing on succession planning and a note of goodbye. Her focus during the next year will be to encourage more water professionals to choose AWRA as their professional home. This involves a number of initiatives to welcome and mentor millennials, to provide additional opportunities to publish, participate and lead, and to spend some time focused on succession planning. As they move through the next 12 months, she plans to highlight additional success stories from throughout the profession. One of those will focus on AWRA's own executive vice president, Ken Reid, who has announced his retirement after 36 years at the helm.