What if you could peek into an ecosystem of 10,000+ North American A/E/C professionals to see how they are adapting, evolving, thriving in today’s rapidly changing business environment? In her revealing keynote, Arcadis COO Heather Polinsky explains the engineering and design giant’s lessons learned from the pandemic and her outlook on their long-term strategic shifts to build a more agile and high performance firm. You take away specific actions and accelerators that you can apply to yours.

As a former attorney and CEO, Adam Markel has much to share about leadership, resilience and pivoting. However, his greatest and most enduring lessons came from the years he spent as an ocean lifeguard. In this life and death environment, Adam learned to cultivate high performance capacity, impeccable teamwork and resilience. Today, these principles apply to any A/E/C firm that wants to shred the waves of change and build a competitive advantage to win. In his high-energy and interactive talk, Adam explains how to push back against today’s culture of exhaustion and pivoting to a more agile and sustainable culture of resilience.

You've picked up dozens of great new business management ideas over 3 days, so how can you be sure they get put into practice? Join Stewart Haney, PE, PMP, LEED AP and President & CEO of WENDEL Companies, a 300-employee, $100M A/E/C firm, for an eye-opening look at how it has overcome one of strategic planning's biggest challenges: implementation. Using a combination of dedicated teams, Agile PM, Scrum techniques, and more, the firm has doubled revenue in 8 years by moving from plan to action with accountability and alacrity, and holding the CEO's feet to the fire!