2024 Fall Leadership Summit

FA24-01 President’s Mid-Year Report
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GBA President Guy Marcozzi, P.E., D.GE, LEED AP BD+C provides his mid-year report. (25 minutes)

FA24-02 Committees in Concert “Harmony in Collaboration”
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Andrea Gorski, GBA Committee Coordinator, and the GBA committee chairs provide updates on their accomplishments and their collaboration with other committees. They also update the membership on future initiatives. (49 minutes)

FA24-03 Woodward L. Vogt Project Excellence Award
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The Woodward L. Vogt Project Excellence Award is an annual award we bestow to recognize some of the most outstanding projects by our members who live and demonstrate the vision of GBA to great accomplishment. Winners of this award truly showcase their hard work and contributions to society in front of all their peers, clients, and other professionals from across North America.

This year, the award was granted to S&ME for a unique and challenging project, the Great Falls Dearborn Diversion Dam Bypasses Project in Chester County, South Carolina. Frank Morris, P.E., a Senior Engineer-Project Manager, presents the project. (34 minutes)

FA24-04 How to Communicate Like a Hostage Negotiator
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Dan Oblinger, a retired hostage negotiations commander and author, delivers a presentation by wrapping up the themes from the workshop:

• Critical communication and negotiation skills designed for maximum retention and adoption of practice.
• A model for emotional communication that provides a resilient and flexible foundation for negotiations.
• A method of “relationship-based negotiations” to increase revenue without sacrificing client satisfaction and to prevent clients and partners from using relationships as leverage!

(59 minutes)