Your AEC firm is winning work faster than it can develop the leaders to deliver it. Margins are quietly eroding from scope creep and inconsistent financial discipline. You've invested in technology your project managers barely use. And every attempt to standardize runs headlong into the same objection: "That won't work for my projects."
Sound familiar? These aren't isolated problems. They're the four predictable failure points that emerge as firms scale, and they share a common root cause: a Project Management Office (or the absence of one) that operates as a compliance function instead of a strategic driver of performance. In this free 60-minute session, Warren Ladbrook, PE, LEED AP, PMP, Senior Director, Project Management with engineering firm WithersRavenel, draws on 35+ years of international AEC experience — including leading the project management transformation at a fast-growing consulting firm — to show you what actually separates high-performing PMOs from paper-tiger ones. See how leading firms are positioning the PMO for real authority, building project leadership pipelines that keep pace with growth, installing early warning systems that protect margin before it's gone, and getting standards and tools genuinely adopted rather than politely ignored.
Whether you're building a PMO from scratch, evolving an established function, or simply tired of firefighting the same delivery problems every quarter, you'll leave with practical moves you can put to work immediately.