• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Knowledge center for the Texas A&M University Industrial Distribution Program

Thomas and Joan Read Center for Distribution Research & Education

  • About Us
    • Message From Our Directors
    • Faculty, Staff, & Speakers
    • Body of Knowledge
      • Publications
    • The RELLIS Campus
    • Program and Consortia FAQs
    • Contact Us
  • News
  • Professional Development
    • Find a Program
    • Open Enrollment Programs
      • Certificate in Distribution Professional Management
    • Custom Programs
    • Events
    • Request Program Information
  • Research
    • Global Supply Chain Laboratory
      • Industry Projects
    • The Talent Incubator Program
  • Industry Consortia
    • Current Industry Consortia
    • Past Industry Consortia
  • Partners
    • NAW Collaboration
    • Donors
    • Industry Sponsors
You are here: Home / Professional Development

Professional Development

Overview

The Read Center works with Industry Leaders and their corresponding projects to discover new ways of productively and profitably addressing and serving marketplace needs. 

The Read Center aids Industry Professionals:

  • Recognize and Improve Their Best Practices
  • Provides Solutions and Methodologies to Facilitate a Competitive Advantage

For more than 60 years, the Industrial Distribution Program has been providing the industry with Cutting-Edge Professional Development Certificate Programs. The Read Center offers anywhere from 1.5 day to 5 day programs. 

These programs enable High Potential Distribution Professionals and Executives to transform their company data into results that are:

Meaningful
Actionable
Growth-Driven
 
The Read Center currently offers our programs to either companies or individuals in custom enrollment or open enrollment. These programs seek to educate distributors in some of the most pressing challenges facing the industry today.
Professional Development

Read the Professional Development Brochure Here ›

Program Offerings

The Thomas and Joan Read Center becomes your strategic partner when we design a program for your organization. We develop a unique curriculum with action learning solutions that meet your specific goals. The process includes a strategic needs assessment, program design and course development, program implementation, instruction and evaluation, and program follow-up. The topics, faculty, program structure, and site are selected specifically to maximize learning and the effectiveness of the program for your organization.

Professional Development
Custom Programs ›
Professional Development
Certificate in Distribution Professional Management ›
Professional Development
Open Enrollment Programs ›

Custom Programs ›

Custom Programs are highly flexible, and can be tailor-made to suit your company’s needs. Custom Programs tend to be highly comprehensive, and allow for a great deal of feedback from the target company. Course pricing and durations will vary based upon the number of people and the level of depth required by the company. The primary advantage of Custom Programs, besides their greater focus, is that they can be commissioned at any time, rather than being held at a predetermined date.

Request More Information ›

Open Enrollment Programs ›

The Read Center also leverages the body of knowledge generated by its research arms to create
open enrollment education programs for distribution professionals to develop their skills. These open enrollment courses include Intensive Sessions for specialists and Fundamental Education Sessions. In contrast to the Custom Programs, these open enrollment programs will be held at fixed calendar dates, and will be open to all individuals and groups, not just single companies.

Open Enrollment Courses Currently Available:

Certificate for Distribution Professional Management Program: Sessions 1-3

Certificate in Distribution Professional Management ›

The Certificate in Distribution Professional Management (CDPM) is a prestigious certificate program for
high potential leadership candidates. This program will provide the attendees with a certificate upon completion of a series of three short yet rigorous education sessions. Each of the sessions will be for 4 days and will occur throughout the year with at least a month gap between each. Currently this is offered
through a partnership between the Read Center and the National Association of Wholesale Distributors (NAW). Through the sessions offered, the CDPM program aims to equip distribution managers with the skills and perspective needed to thrive in the industry today.

CDPM Courses Currently Available:

Certificate for Distribution Professional Management Program: Sessions 1-3

Professional Development

Session 1: Distributor Capability Development & Channel Alignment: 
June 13-16, 2022

Professional Development

Session 2: Optimizing Distributor Profitability: 
August 22-25, 2022

Professional Development

Session 3: Generating and Managing Growth: 
September 12-15, 2022

Register for CDPM

Footer

Thomas & Joan Read Center for Distribution Research and Education

Connect with Read Center: link: Thomas and Joan Read Center LinkedIn page
Connect with Talent Incubator: link: Talent Incubator Program LinkedIn page

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Copyright © 2022 · Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station · All Rights Reserved