I’m grateful “to be part of a community of people that are extremely intentional about career development”

Warren Green, Business Analyst, Pilot

Warren Green has been working as an IT Business Analyst for Pilot Company for almost one year now. He helps support various IT programs to ensure they are efficient and meet stakeholder needs.

While he had worked in other industries before joining Pilot Company, one of the reasons that Warren wanted to work in trucking is because of the essentiality of the industry. In an interview with TMAF, Warren explained he was drawn to trucking because of “how important truckers are to the country in regard to getting products, fuel and anything else you could possibly think of around the country for people to be able to use and consume.”

Having begun his career at a logistics company, he was excited to get reintroduced to the trucking industry with his new job. He was especially excited about the opportunity to work at a successful company like Pilot, which has a great reputation, he told TMAF.

What he enjoys most about Pilot Company is the company’s strong focus on career and leadership development among their employees, which has helped Warren grow as a professional. “Having the opportunity to be a part of a community of people that are extremely intentional about career development, as well as development from the standpoint of seeing individuals grow as leaders, is what I enjoy most about working at Pilot.”

Warren serves as Vice President of Pilot Company’s Building Relationships In Diverse Group Environments Business Resource Group (BRIDGE BRG), which has over 100 participants and he also serves as President of the African American subcommittee of the BRIDGE BRG that is dedicated to building relationships with diverse environments and includes a focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

“As co-leader of the BRIDGE BRG, I have the opportunity to help individuals connect with things like mentoring programs or job shadowing. This gives exposure to new positions or professional areas to someone that may have been marginalized into a certain job and never realized they had the opportunity to take on a different role. So having the opportunity to move the bar forward in that regard has just been awesome.”

Throughout the year, the African American BRIDGE BRG hosts educational events. In January, Warren helped organize a widely attended Martin Luther King Jr. event. Over 70 employees attended the Lunch and Learn event to honor Dr. King’s legacy. “Our goal was to provoke thoughtful conversation around diversity and inclusion and inequality in the workplace, as well as provide opportunities for individuals to serve and to be a part of these conversations.” There are more events planned this month for Black History Month.

Initiatives that foster diversity and inclusion within trucking and the country is critical, Warren said. “There’s a quote that’s always stuck with me… ‘Exposure leads to expansion,’ and I truly believe that.”

Warren explained that his parents sending him to a private school, instead of the public school in his community, changed the course of his life by presenting him with options he wasn’t aware existed. Sharing his own personal experience, Warren explained, “For me growing up, I didn’t know that certain things were possible, like the position that I have as an IT business analyst. I didn’t know that I could work in IT as a kid because it wasn’t presented to me as an opportunity for me to be able to explore.”

Because Warren understands firsthand how important exposure is to fostering diversity, he said, “When I go back home to my community and say I work in IT, young kids look at me and ask about my job. For them — being able to relate to me because I came from the same community and I look like them — gives them the opportunity to believe in themselves, that they can do it too. And that’s why I believe diversity and inclusion is so important: because until you have people in those communities that can come back and say, hey, I did it, so you can too, you won’t really have people in those communities rising up to the occasion because they won’t know that they have the ability to do it.”

A former college football athlete, Warren enjoys staying active, whether it is going to the gym, going hiking or playing sports. He also enjoys journaling, listening to music and creating art in his spare time. An entrepreneur, Warren owns several businesses that he has started across different sectors.