Get Involved

Are you an employee of a PTDA member company and interested in volunteering? Complete the interest form and return it to PTDA or contact PTDA at ptda@ptda.org or +1.312.516.2100.

Volunteers are critical to PTDA’s success, donating time and expertise to develop programs that benefit distributor and manufacturer members as a whole.

As a PTDA volunteer, you'll enhance your own professional development:

• Build a personal network of peers and business partners and benefit from learning about the successes and failures of others
• Expand your knowledge of methods and resources utilized in the industry that relate directly to your own job responsibilities as well as other jobs within your company
• Shape the industry with a personal impact on the direction and development of PTDA’s programs, products and services
• Pay it forward by giving back to an industry that has been personally rewarding
• Build and apply your personal management skills
• Build and apply your facilitation skills
• Improve your presentation skills

When you volunteer, benefits also accrue to your company:

• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your own company through the development and use of resources that:
  • Standardize transactional formats
  • Quantify your value to customers
  • Improve your customer service operations
  • Offer low-cost product training resources for your employees
  • Prepare your employees for advancement in your company
  • Attract and develop the next generation of employees to your company
  • Create awareness within your company of all of the above
  • Create processes and procedures for disseminating this information to the people you work with and your customers
• Explore and understand wider trends in the industrial distribution industry—both in North America and abroad—in an informal setting
• Build a network of business relationships with senior executives in the power transmission/motion control industry, increasing the speed with which business is accomplished
• Elevate the reputation and visibility of your company within the industry on many levels

Learn about the PTDA Board of Directors, Manufacturer Council, PTDA Committees, PTDA Foundation Board of Trustees and PTDA Foundation Committees