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New ASAE Chairman O’Neil ‘fell into the right crowd'

Head of the American Industrial Hygiene Association points to synergy between volunteer leadership and his ‘day job.’ O'Neil ST. LOUIS—Some association leaders take a highly structured approach to career planning, setting goals in yearly increments for advancing, position-by-position, up the executive ladder, until reaching the top rung. Others, like incoming ASAE Chair Peter O’Neil, take a less formulaic approach. As he tells it, he saw value in the ASAE organization, became a member more than 15 years ago, and started volunteering not long after. Opportunities for leadership followed. “I fell into the right crowd, so to speak,” O’Neil said in an interview at… Read More