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8:30 am Registration & Networking

9:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Maximizing Talent in Your Organization

9:15 am Panel Discussion: Leaving a Legacy – Developing Leadership Skills Across the Organization to Create a Cohesive Group of Future Business Leaders

Vice President, Operations, LiveWire Construction Inc.
Director - Operations, AtkinsRealis
Vice President, Central Texas, Mycon General Contractors
  • Discussing the competencies of the modern construction leader
  • Defining core values among leadership across the organization and how that needs to evolve at different seniority levels
  • Developing management coaching and development programs to help employees transition from individual contributor to mid-level manager, to senior executive with influence and credibility

9:50 am Audience Q&A

10:15 am Audience Discussion: Enhancing Employee Engagement to Support Long-Term Organizational Growth

  • Facilitating transparent discussions around motivations and compensation with your workforce to determine areas for improvement
  • Building a clear framework of incentives to balance fairness across the workforce, yet still align with individual need
  • Establishing an organizational culture of transparency and communication to maintain employee engagement

11:15 am Morning Refreshments & Networking

Improving Project Function

11:45 am Improving Company-Wide Data Literacy to Help Leadership at All Levels Evaluate Performance & Drive Improvement

Director, PMO, Bond Brothers Co.
Director - Technology & Process Improvement, Commodore Builders
  • Highlighting the skills and requirements of different leadership levels when it comes to data interpretation
  • Ensuring everyone, from project manager through executive leadership, are effectively trained in the art of data interpretation and manipulation to help them extract maximum value from reports: How do you get everyone bought in and engaged with development initiatives?
  • Breaking down internal silos on how to leverage data, using real-life examples of how data has improved performance to improve buy-in to the value of data and reporting

12:15 pm Audience Q&A

12:25 pm Case Study: Effectively Monitoring Project Health to Gain Insight & Reduce Costs by Taking Proactive Course Correction Measures

Vice President, Emerging Markets, MCL Construction
  • Defining valuable metrics to accurately measure project health
  • Building easily accessible, interactive reports for leadership to monitor project health, and extract the specific insights they need for their role
  • Working with project leadership to harness reports to forecast issues within projects and moving to proactive prevention measures before issues become irreparable

12:55 pm Audience Q&A

1:05 pm Lunch Break & Networking

2:05 pm Audience Discussion: Building a Dedicated Approach to Client Communication to Improve Overall Customer Satisfaction

  • Establishing a singular platform for project updates to be shared, centralizing all project information coming from the client, and reduce the need for multiple questions
  • Standardizing meeting structures and cadence/volume of reporting across project partners to set clear expectations around communications
  • Utilizing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool to create quantifiable feedback and inform your client satisfaction aims

Enabling Growth & Profit Maximization

3:05 pm Evaluating & Expediting Entry into New Markets to Unlock Strategic Growth Opportunities & Drive New Business

Chief Strategy Officer, Southland Industries
  • Discussing how to examine and qualify potential new markets for expansion
  • Exploring how to identify and navigate potential pitfalls associated with expanding into a new market
  • Adapting your existing Standard Operating Procedures to fit alongside the new variables in said market

3:35 pm Audience Q&A

3:45 pm Panel Discussion: Examining How to Prioritize Different Project Pursuits to Maximise Profit & Mitigate Risk

Director, Operational Excellence, IMC Construction
Senior Director - Corporate Strategy, Rosendin Electric
  • Creating a decision-making matrix accounting for market specific variables to inform the pursuit of new projects
  • Aligning project pursuit and opportunities with your strategic company goals and client consistency
  • Optimizing your resourcing to meet project requirements sustainably, without overextending and taking on additional risk
  • Managing client communications when decisions are made to protect long-standing relationships, yet uphold integrity of decision making across the business

4:45 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:00 pm End of Main Conference