Take Your Career to the Next Level: AEC Principals Bootcamp

KNOWING you have to maintain a healthy backlog, sustain profitability, and keep top talent engaged is just the first step towards becoming an invaluable AEC firm principal. Register for the industry's premier executive skills program and learn how to EXECUTE these and other mission-critical tasks and become the leader driving firmwide success.

AEC Principals Bootcamp's
Game-Changing Takeaways

Over 6,000 AEC Principals Have Learned How to:

Make the Mental Shift to Strategic Thinking

You learn the big-picture traits shared by the most successful AEC principals, and how to move your own management vision in the right direction.

Maximize Team Productivity

Learn keys to producing eye-popping returns on your investment in talent. Hang on to top performers, develop them to full capability, and recruit more like them.

The Best Backlog-Boosting BD Tactics

The most effective principals keep pipelines full by landing profitable projects. We share their secrets and empower you to drive explosive growth.

Design a Firm Structure for Success

Growth and higher AEC profits means having the right people in the right seats. We break down org charts at successful firms, explain commonalities, and help you rethink yours.

Manage Finances More Confidently

Obsessing over chargeability won't drive higher profits, nor will neglecting to leverage the hidden value of your firm's intellectual property. See how successful firms use counterintuitive pricing strategies and more to crush revenue goals.

Plan for Ownership Transition

Because change is inevitable, successful Principals know how to get themselves and their teams through an ownership transition. Learn proven strategies for smooth transactions.

The Complete Professional Performance Boosting Experience

Your Registration Includes:

LIVE training, via online sessions or at one of our new IN-PERSON locations.

Conducted by industry experts who have helped hundreds of AEC principals transform their careers and boost firm finances.

AEC Principals Bootcamp Digital Toolbox.

ou get exclusive access to a suite of apps, tools, templates, checklists, and more to multiply the value of your Bootcamp experience (a $695 value).

Ongoing Implementation Support.

You get two hours of one-on-one email and phone support with PSMJ experts, available for a full year after your Bootcamp is finished.

The AEC Principals Bootcamp Workbook.

Over 600 pages packed with every slide you'll use in the training, perfect for keeping your MUST-DO initiatives on track long after your Bootcamp is complete (a $197 value).

Don’t waste your firm's time and money on lesser imitators or so-called "institutes" with inexperienced instructors, ultra-basic and hypothetical content, and boring presentations. Only PSMJ's AEC Principals Bootcamp connects you with high-performing AEC principals eager to share the secrets of their success and the strategies they use to increase profits, drive growth, inspire everyone around them to over-deliver, and turn clients into evalgelists for their firm. Count on the AEC industry's premier training provider!

Interactive, Expert-Led Sessions

In just two days of in-person classes, or via six LIVE online sessions, AEC Principals Bootcamp delivers the essential skills, strategies, and decision-making tools you need to excel!

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Don't Just Take Our Word for It

See what our graduates have to say

“One of the best seminars ever. Recommended for anyone on a principal level.”

Jeff Romeo | Principal
Fitzmeyer & Tocci Associates, Inc.

"Since Principals Bootcamp, we have become a much better company in many respects. PSMJ is solid gold in our books.”

Darrell Haight | President and CEO, Trace Associates

“Excellent course. Learned so much. I'm very excited to send more staff to this course as well as others offered by PSMJ.”

Anthony Guckert | Senior Vice President, The Traffic Group Inc.

Just a few of the AEC firms that send their professionals through PSMJ's AEC Principals Bootcamp:

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Flexible Training Options

Accelerate your career with two days of immersive, in-person training or choose a LIVE online option with 6 hours over three days. Gain the skills, tools, and strategies that define superior executive leadership.

In-Person AEC Principals Bootcamp Option:

Meet face-to-face with your coaches, AEC executives each bringing over 20 years of experience in the top ranks of highly successful firms. Over just two days at your choice of exciting host cities, the industry's essential executive training program teaches you everything you need to accelerate your firm's growth and add value to your firm.

Day 1: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Day 2: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments included with registration

LIVE ONLINE AEC Principals Bootcamp Option:

If you prefer the convenience of online training, now you can get ALL the priceless tips, tools, and techniques that have made AEC Principals Bootcamp the career accelerator all without leaving your office! Our interactive online training is LIVE and conducted by the same AEC experts who deliver the in-person events. Delivered in six 2-hour blocks over 3 days (10 AM - 12 PM and 3 PM - 5 PM ET), AEC Principals Bootcamp Online Master Class is the perfect career-boosting learning event.

Upcoming LIVE ONLINE options:
Tuesday, May 12 - Thursday, May 14, 2026
Tuesday, August 18 - Thursday, August 20, 2026
Tuesday, October 13 - Thursday, October 15, 2026
Tuesday, November 3 - Thursday, November 5, 2026

GUARANTEE

This training program is focused on helping you become even more professionally valuable by explaining techniques used by the most successful AEC Principals. We're confident this course WILL help you – as it has thousands of others. If this program or the skills and tools you acquire don't have a positive impact on that goal, we will refund your fee or arrange for you to attend another PSMJ program at no cost. You take no risk!

Professional Development Credits

AIA Continuing Ed Logo AEC Principals Bootcamp is AIA CES-registered to provide this content. This Bootcamp earns you up to 13 LU Hours, CEUs, or PDHs. Not all state and licensing boards accept these programs for learning units. For more information, please contact our education team at (617) 965-0055 or education@psmj.com.