Welcome to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry’s leading growth and profitability conference. A/E/C THRIVE brings together key decisionmakers for connection and collaboration on the business and management strategies that drive lasting success.
This is your unique opportunity to learn what other firms are doing right now to vault to the next level of profit and performance as we emerge from the global health crisis and prepare to meet a wave of pent-up demand for A/E/C services. Join us for:
Just a few of the past leading firms who registerd CEOs, Principals, Directors, CFOs, Business Development Leads, Project Managers, and others for A/E/C THRIVE:
One of our industry’s top analysts and visionaries provides hard data on current A/E/C market conditions—and what they mean to ambitious, growth-oriented firms. Learn how key market segments’ behaviors are changing, why they are doing so, and how you can take advantage of the opportunities they create.
Your A/E/C firm’s culture isn’t on your website or mission statement, it’s how your employees describe working for you. To counter growing disengagement, “culture” has become the connective tissue that bonds the best people to firms and creates a sustainable competitive advantage, and it’s been what everyone is talking about since we moved to remote workforces. Problem is, a lot of leaders don’t know how to move from talk to action. So what are you doing to define, establish and maintain yours? Straight-talking talent expert Barbara Bruno gives us the candid, tough questions to ask ourselves and other leaders about our culture, why it isn’t attracting the best talent, and may in fact be driving away critical mid-career leaders .
As firm leaders, we often run from fire to fire, dealing the pressing issues of the day. But how intentional are we to identify and eliminate our key deficiencies, the big-picture structural issues that contribute to sub-optimal firm growth and goal attainment? Barry Barber of 5,500-strong engineering and design powerhouse Kimley-Horn has spent his career challenging the “we’ve always done it this way” mentality, first as Executive Vice President for Human Resources and now as Chairman of the Board. In his powerful keynote address, Barry will reframe our thinking by asking the right questions about our firm’s culture, ownership transition planning, employee and client satisfaction, skilled talent motivation, geographic, market, and client diversity, remote work practices, and much more. Plus we get a candid and revealing insider’s view from the top of one of the most successful (#15 on ENR’s Top 500, 14-time FORTUNE Best Places to Work) design firms as they answer the same questions.
Private equity and family offices are aggressively moving into the AEC sector and providing a compelling option for ownership transition. Karl is joined by Bob Polino, of Austin Brockenbrough, Tom Gambino of Prime Engineering, and Doug Lake, the founder of Godspeed Capital for this lively open- mic discussion. Doug will outline why Godspeed is interested in the A/E/C sector. Tom and Bob will discuss why they chose the private equity recapitalization path for ownership transition. Get answers to all your A/E/C M&A questions and enjoy a provocative back-and-forth over lunch.
Erica Orange is Executive Vice President & COO of The Future Hunters where she evaluates emerging trends – and identifies the strategic implications (the “So what?”) for Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, and public sector clients. Her take on how A/E/C firms will excel in the future might surprise you!
Led by PSMJ Founder and CEO Frank Stasiowski, FAIA, this provocative discussion with fellow A/E/C executives challenges you to shift your thinking about emerging trends with potential to radically reshape your firm.
Last year’s discussion on the death of timesheets was a standing-room only hit…stay tuned to see what we attack this year!
