Eileen Dickson
Vice President, Education
 

Eileen Dickson is Vice President, Education, at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association in Silver Spring, MD. She serves as staff liaison to both NRMCA’s Educational Activities Committee and the Operations, Environmental, and Safety Committee’s Human Resource Task Group. Responsibilities include managing association education professional development programs, webinars and accompanying publications, the industry’s career-centric STEPS certification program, as well as issues pertaining to human resources. She also administers the annual Innovation and Excellence-in-Training award programs. Finally, Eileen sits on the Concrete Industry Management Education Committee and CONEXPO-CON/AGG’s Education Committee.

Eileen is one of the principle instructors for NRMCA’s Plant Manager Certification course, Fleet Manager certification course, and one of the primary developers and instructors for the Supervisor Certification course.

Prior to joining the Association, Eileen was responsible for business development and strategic planning for Thomson Prometric, a computer-based certification test developer. She has also been US sales manager for various multinational luxury goods companies, including the jewelry firm, Cartier SSA. Part of Eileen’s responsibilities were developing training programs for customers, including Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also Cartier’s representative to the American Watch Association and Jewelers Board of Trade, where she not only focused on grassroots activities to lower US luxury tariffs as barriers of trade but also annually participated in fly-ins to meet with congressmen on Capitol Hill.

Eileen holds a Master of Science degree in marketing from The Johns Hopkins University with additional post graduate work in Adult Learning and Instructional Systems Design from UMBC. Her baccalaureate degree is in Secondary Education from Duquesne University. She is a trained mediator and member of the Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office under the umbrella of the Maryland Court of Appeals. She is also a member of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolutions and Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence. Her volunteer services specialize in restorative justice and community mediation.

Email: edickson@nrmca.org  │  Phone: 240-485-1164