INNOVATION FORWARD
Advancing Your Business with Tomorrow's Technology
Are you ready to steer your firm toward success in the landscape of today's marketplace? Discover the strategies that are propelling companies to new heights, including the game-changing forces of AI and the digital marketplace.
Join us at ACEC's Winter Coalitions Meeting, in New Orleans, where you'll have the unique opportunity to learn from peers about how to remain ahead of the competition in today's dynamic business world.
Don't miss this opportunity to dive deep into the future of business and technology. Secure your spot at ACEC's Coalitions Winter Meeting today and set your course for success in the competitive marketplace of tomorrow.
Join us at the Coalitions Winter Meeting, where tomorrow's success begins today!
Networking
Education
Technology
Advocacy
Engage with your peers and young professionals from diverse practice areas, including MEP, Structural, Professional Surveying, Land Development, and Geoprofessional.
Choose from a wide array of sessions, including roundtables, educational workshops, and technology presentations. You'll gain insights and inspiration that can transform your business strategies.
Spend some time with the experts who are developing the technologies designed to optimize your business practices. Hear about what the future has in store for the engineering industry.
Hear about the latest developments in advocacy that directly impact your industry. You'll hear directly from ACEC's Advocacy team about the policies and initiatives shaping your professional landscape.
Together, we'll explore the best tech-driven strategies to lead your firms into a brighter future.
Schedule of Events
Kevin Cornish
As Senior Vice President, Roads + Highways Sector Leader, and Transportation Growth Leader for TYLin, Kevin supports sector growth activity, and oversees R+H sector's operations and client management goals.
With a keen focus on transportation infrastructure planning, engineering, and construction, Kevin’s expertise includes overseeing and connecting transportation practices and facilitating collaboration for key market sectors such as surface transportation, aviation, rail and transit, freight rail, ports and marine, complex bridges, tunnels, intelligent transportation systems, and asset management.
A registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Pennsylvania, he received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kevin also remains active in numerous industry organizations and is on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). He has many years of participation with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA), and the International Bridge, Tunnel, and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). In his home state of Florida, Kevin is actively engaged with Florida Transportation Builders Association (FTBA), as well as Floridians for Better Transportation (FBT).
Roger Guilian
Roger Guilian joined Greyling Insurance Brokerage & Risk Consulting, a division of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, bringing 24+ years of litigation and risk management experience to the Architects & Engineers team. In his role, Roger develops legal and legislative initiatives that are critical to large design firms and the construction community, provide risk avoidance and management consulting to Greyling clients and associates, and support Greyling’s expansion of the ACEC Business Insurance Trust program.
Roger Guilian entered the engineering and design professional space in August 2004 when he became General Counsel of Volkert, Inc., an ENR Top-100 civil engineering firm, after a rewarding and successful sixyear career in private practice. Prior to going in-house, Roger was an active litigator, trying dozens of insurance defense jury trials, and litigating hundreds of suits to favorable pre-trial resolutions. During 18- year in-house experience, Roger gained extensive experience and knowledge in matters affecting risk and legal exposure to engineers, their firms, and other design professionals, including contracts risk management, professional liability insurance, and defense of errors & omissions claims.
Roger is a 1995 magna cum laude graduate of The University of Alabama and a 1998 graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law where he excelled as an advocate on the Law School’s championship Trial Advocacy Competition teams. Roger is deeply engaged in industry and engineering associations through which he has cultivated a nationwide network of friends and colleagues in the design professional insurance and risk management space. Roger currently serves on the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Risk Management Committee, ACEC Business Resources & Education Committee, ACEC Management Practices Committee, and the American Bar Association’s Construction Law Forum. Roger served as a Trustee on the ACEC Business Insurance Trust from 2020-2022, was an active contributing member of the ACEC Legal Counsel Forum from 2007-2022, and chaired the Alabama State Bar Construction Law Section in 2018.
Roger is a member in good standing of the Alabama State Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Dave Lipka
Thank you to our sponsors and strategic partners!
Participation in ACEC committees and initiatives that impact the engineering industry help P2S leadership, myself included, better prepare our business operations now and into the future.
Leading Your Firm into the Future
Small Firm Workshop
25-26 February 2024
Presented by William Siegel and Kevin McMahon of McMahon Siegel Group, and David Whitmire of Thinc Strategy, attendees will discover the strategies for thriving in today's dynamic business landscape, navigate change with resilience, and learn the art of successful succession planning. The workshop begins at 10 AM on the 25th and will finish by 10 AM on Monday morning (8 hours of educational material).
The first half of the workshop attendees will learn how to develop a strategy to attack gaps in the market for small firms that can drive sustained profitability and growth. This session will identify alternative business approaches and challenge small firm owners to rethink their strategies to thrive in today's challenging environment including talent shortages, industry consolidation, and technology advancements.
The second half of the workshop attendees will continue to explore change management strategies including and leading up to succession planning.
The workshop includes the presentation of case studies, round tabling, panel discussions, and group exercises.
AGENDA
Sunday, February 25, 2025
10:30 am - 11:00 am Attendee Check In
11:00 am - 11:10 am Kick Off and Introductions and of Course Overview
11:10 am - 12:30 pm
If you have already registered for the Winter Coalitions Meeting and would like to add on the Small Firm Workshop, please contact Kris at kkorfonta@acec.org
About the Presenters
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Book your room
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Things to do in the area
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