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Charlotte DiBartolomeo

CEO/Founder, Red Kite Project

Charlotte DiBartolomeo, M.A.C.T., is the CEO and founder of Red Kite Project, a resilience-building firm that works with high-risk industries. She and her team have worked with the transit industry for 16 years to mitigate the impact of burnout, which causes absenteeism, high turnover, accidents, rule violations, and assaults. Her company partners with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority,  Metro Transit in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the Charlotte Area Transit System in N.C., and GTrans in Gardena, California. 

In addition to her work with the Red Kite Project, DiBartolomeo developed and taught Trauma-Informed Care in the Department of Behavioral Health Counseling at Drexel University, and created and led a graduate certification program in Peace Education at Arcadia University. She is a regular speaker on workplace resilience at various professional conferences across the US.

Articlesby Charlotte DiBartolomeoApril 13, 2020

Transit's monumental challenges to support the frontline in the time of coronavirus

Fear, particularly when it’s sustained over a period of time, reorganizes the brain, cutting off the normal pathways to problem-solving.

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Transit Dispatchesby Charlotte DiBartolomeoSeptember 10, 2019

Amid automation trend, here's why we still need bus drivers

The driverless option will severely impact the four million commercial drivers working in the U.S., according to a 2014 Goldman Sachs report. These figures suggest the loss of 25,000 jobs per month during the height of the autonomous vehicles saturation into the industry.

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Safety Cornerby Charlotte DiBartolomeoJanuary 11, 2017

The Hidden Factor in Bus Accidents when Human Error is the Cause

It happens every day. A pedestrian sees a bus barreling down the road but is convinced he can make his way to the other side without harm. Most of the time he’s right, and the only harm done is to the driver’s skyrocketing blood pressure.

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