AEC THRIVE brings together key decisionmakers for connection and collaboration for business strategies that drive lasting success.
AEC THRIVE is your unique opportunity to learn what other firms are doing right now to vault to the next level of profit and performance as the business climate continues to evolve.
AEC THRIVE brings together architecture and engineering firm decision-makers and senior leaders ready to spark growth, profitability, and performance. Ideal for CEOs, Presidents and VPs, Managing Principals, CFOs, and any executive driving business strategy and long-term success.
Organizations that look strong on paper… but behave differently in practice.
Margins erode without warning. Backlog quality varies by office. Similar projects deliver different outcomes depending on who is leading them.
Trilon Group’s Kat Nelson Galke takes a deliberately contrarian stance:
As access to data and AI accelerates, the gap between insight and action is becoming more visible—and more costly. The firms that outperform will not be those with the best strategies, but those that rethink how leaders make decisions, own outcomes, and operate consistently at scale. This session focuses on where firms are getting stuck between insight and action—and what leaders must change to close that gap.
This keynote reveals a disciplined approach to turning the interview into a true competitive advantage. Drawing from Tim’s 37-year career building a 400-person firm with a 50% interview win rate (and insights shared in his latest book – Winning Work), you learn:
This isn’t about better presentations. It’s about changing how you compete…and winning the work you actually want.
In this keynote, Matthews will present the research-based framework from his forthcoming book, Alignment by Design, revealing that sustained performance in professional services firms emerges not from optimizing any single metric, but from the coherence of five interconnected organizational systems — values and mission, governance, structure, leadership, and culture.
When these components reinforce one another, professionals collaborate more effectively, leaders develop more naturally, client relationships deepen, and the firm builds resilience that outlasts market cycles and ownership transitions.
Attendees will leave with a practical diagnostic lens for examining whether their own firm’s internal systems are working together — or quietly working against one another — and a clearer understanding of why alignment, not growth, is the strategy that separates firms that thrive from firms that simply expand.
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Lock in the lowest rate for the main AEC THRIVE before prices rise. Registration includes all sessions, breakfasts, lunches, breaks and receptions.
AEC Executive Workshop delivers a wealth of action-oriented ideas to rethink and energize your leadership training and succession strategy.
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