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:
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.
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.
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
Session 1: Distributor Capability Development & Channel Alignment:
June 13-16, 2022
Session 2: Optimizing Distributor Profitability:
August 22-25, 2022
Session 3: Generating and Managing Growth:
September 12-15, 2022
