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• Your executive responsibility to embrace new tech.
• Legal risks with emerging tools.
• How different generations react to and accept technology changes.
• How to control client expectations about what’s possible.
• When to lead on tech, and when to follow.  

• Deal structure norms in the A/E/C sector
• What are you worth? Current drivers for business valuation
• Current market valuation metrics review.
• Exit options available to A/E/C owners
• When private equity recapitalization might be right for your firm.
• How to solve a stalled internal transition
• M&A process overview including document milestones and maintaining confidentiality of the sale

• How RJC Engineers has adopted and scaled technology across an international firm with sixteen offices.
• Why creating a centralized repository of project images enables firms to produce more efficient, competitive proposals and documents.
• The easy process for creating a source of truth for project data, thereby optimizing internal communication and cross-team collaboration.
• How leveraging technology supports your firm through mergers and acquisitions and turbocharges growth.
• Insights into enhancing your marketing, brand, and firm exposure – without increasing headcount.

A data-driven talent acquisition strategy is critical for meeting your A/E/C firm's growth goals. Talent acquisition teams that leverage data are more efficient, operate with lower costs and achieve better results in terms of external recruiting and retention. We'll share the most important data points your business needs to be focusing on to ensure you're running a winning talent acquisition practice.

Winning the War for Talent IS the biggest opportunity for success in the AE industry and will be for the rest of our careers. Success has become, and will continue to become, more dynamic and challenging moving forward. This session will collaborate with the audience to discover best practices and lessons learned in the benefits that matter to professionals today including schedule flexibility, profit sharing, growth opportunities, training, and fringe benefits. Come work with your peers as we learn together.

• How the most successful firms manage WFH and schedule flexibility demands, and the pros and cons of different approaches.
• Which benefits matter most to each generation in your workforce.
• What profit sharing strategies drive higher ROI.
• Creating outlets for discussion of mental health.
• Best practices in training and career growth planning.

Looking for a proven profitability booster? PwC and Accenture surveys prove a correlation between design firms with effective enterprise-wide risk management programs and higher profit margins. So what kind of risks are you running, and where are you leaving money on the table? In this session, former Bechtel and EG&G risk assessment and mitigation expert Tim Corbett gives us the key to unlocking profits through internal process audits and corrective actions with an immediate impact on your firm's financial performance. We dive into:

• Current A/E/C professional services liability claims trends
• Refining your understanding of risk management, and reaping the rewards
• Process audit characteristics of the highest performing A/E/C firms
• How to drive down premiums, and push profits up!

• Train them to overdeliver and delight clients, within budget constraints.
• Empower them to take initiative and solve problems.
• What profit sharing strategies drive higher ROI.
• Explain the interplay between their success and your firm’s.
• Spot AEC career-stall warning signs, before you’ve lost a potentially high-value employee.

Telling someone how to manage a client, a project, or a strategic hurdle may provide short-term relief, but it doesn't build their leadership skills. What does?

As as top executive, asking great questions is one of the best ways to develop and coach rising leaders at your A/E/C firm, but it's a learned art requiring practice. And foundational to doing this well requires that you learn to listen intently to the answers you get!

Leading A/E/C management consultant and former firm CEO Brian Burnett explains how to apply the building blocks of an effective coaching conversation and how the RIGHT questions create better dialogue, guiding PMs and Principals along a path of self-empwerment to become great leaders at your firm. He covers the most important coaching questions you can ask when discussing subjects important to an A/E leader.

Achieving the business growth and success vision for your A/E/C firm isn’t going to happen by itself; it’s bigger than just a project or even a program. It requires every aspect of running your business to make it happen. A Business Operating System can give you a leg up, but only if you apply it effectively. Former mid-size AEC firm CEO turned management consultant Stu Haney will answer key questions and share lessons learned from implementing a Business Operating System in firms from 16 to 300 people. You learn:

• Why would you implement a Business Operating System (OS)?
• What a Business OS is, and isn't
• How to implement a Business OS at your A/E/C firm

• The 4 categories of AI, and how they apply to A/E/C
• How AI can help you manage and execute your projects from proposal to completion
• Align skills, tasks, and assignments with AI
• AI opportunitie to improve project performance

• Engagement and retention trends within the AEC industry over the last 2-3 years, with important statistical data to help shape your future human capital strategy.
• The significance of Paradox Theory.  Behavioral adaptive capacity forms the foundation from which a leadership development program can be built.  Learn how leaders can prepare themselves individually before launching into a leadership curriculum.
• How to understand employees uniquely, by understanding the essence of what it means to adapt.