Optional AEC THRIVE pre-conference session
AEC Executive Workshop: The CEO’s Guide to Identifying and
Activating Your Next Generation of Leaders
New to building a leadership development program for your AEC firm and ready to establish a solid framework? You're not alone!
Add the AEC Executive Workshop: The CEO’s Guide to Identifying and Activating Your Firm’s Next Generation of Leaders to your AEC THRIVE registration and get equipped before the conference even begins. This one-day deep-dive covers the practical tools, research, and frameworks for building an AEC-specific leadership development program — built for firm owners, CEOs, and senior executives.
Led by Jonathan Wilson — one of PSMJ’s foremost experts on developing AEC leaders — the workshop delivers real-world insights to help you identify high-potential leaders, cultivate their skills, and build a leadership culture that drives engagement, accountability, and performance.
This one-day intensive deep-dive will give you a clear blueprint for activating the leadership potential already inside your firm. You'll leave with renewed confidence and the ability to:
Identify
leadership potential inside your firm — and distinguish strong performers from future leaders
equip
emerging leaders with practical coaching skills that develop talent and drive engagement
Develop
people you already have and elevate overall team performance without changing teams
Structure
a scalable leadership program aligned with your culture and growth strategy
Measure
the impact of your leadership investment in engagement, project outcomes, and retention
Agenda
- 9:30AM – 10:00AM
Badge Pick Up and Networking Breakfast
- 10:00AM – 12:00PM
In Session
- 12:00PM – 01:00PM
Networking Lunch
- 01:00PM – 05:00PM
In Session
- 05:00PM – 07:00PM
Cocktail Reception
Your AEC Executive Workshop Coach:
Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson delivers training programs and coaches AEC professionals on leadership, coaching, and communication. His work helps firm executives create more effective, productive, and happy teams that deliver better projects with better financials and greater client satisfaction. He has 17 years of experience managing challenging projects from both sides of the table. As a seasoned aviation professional, Jonathan hired and led numerous AEC management project teams to fulfill a multi-million-dollar aviation capital program. First as a client-side project manager and then as a program manager, Jonathan organized and led diverse teams of planning, civil engineering, structural engineering, MEP engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, survey, and construction management professionals on individual projects beyond $10 million.
Jonathan later founded the aviation division inside of KPG, an established 120-person Seattle-based interdisciplinary professional services firm. Over the years, Jonathan and his project teams completed numerous planning, survey, civil engineering, architecture, and landscape architecture projects for both airport owners and private aviation businesses, including two Fortune 50 companies.
When he is not training AE professionals, Jonathan travels the country inspiring and educating audiences on the art and science of leadership. His presentations focus on how to create a learning culture by embracing the coaching leadership style. He has been invited to speak at several venues in addition to national association events like the Airports Council International and the American Public Works Association.
Contact Us
- 617-965-0055
- education@psmj.com
- 10 Midland Avenue, Newton, MA. 02458