<br />
July/August 2026<br />
MY TURN<br />
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COLUMN<br />
Listening, Learning and Moving Foward Together<br />
MARC EXECUTIVE<br />
WILLIAMS DIRECTOR<br />
E arlier this year, more than 12,000 of you completed the<br />
Survey of Employee Engagement (SEE) — a vital tool to<br />
gain feedback on your job, work environment and leaders.<br />
Achieving a 90% response rate tells me you care about your<br />
workplace and are invested in helping us make TxDOT an even<br />
better place to work. Thank you for your time, your honesty, and<br />
your commitment to our agency and to the people of Texas.<br />
I also want to recognize the district and division SEE commit-<br />
tees for the role they played in this effort. From encouraging<br />
participation to sharing best practices and ideas, their support<br />
truly helped make this an agency-wide team effort.<br />
Our overall score was 393 — just slightly down <a title="TNMAG0726 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1d2e4862?page=1"> July/August 2026</a>
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