Engineering Influence from ACEC
Engineering Influence: The Podcast of America's Engineering and Design Industry
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Engineering Influence is the official award-winning podcast of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
ACEC is the trade association representing America's engineering firms; the businesses that design our built environment. Subscribe to the podcast for a variety of content ranging from interviews with newsmakers and elected officials to in-depth conversations on business trends, the economy, technology and what's next for the engineering and design services industry.
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Episodes
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Matt Reiffer joined the podcast to discuss action on VMT, NEPA and a Senate water bill. Plus, we announce that Secretary Buttigieg will appear at the upcoming 2021 Virtual Annual Convention and Legislative Summit. Register for that event today!
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Meridian Associate's CEO, Doug Reed, joined the podcast to share his experiences managing a firm through the coronavirus shutdown and provide insights into what it takes to make strategic implementation successful.
Doug is the author of Lead a Movement: An Insider’s Guide to Powerful Strategy Execution. In this book, Doug observes that the most common unresolved business failure is a good strategy that has never been properly executed. Doug describes how strategy execution can produce growth with certainty, not chance.
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Growth is something that most consulting firms look to achieve and some do it better than others. To find out why, Hinge Marketing prepares its annual High Growth Study, which looks at both the broader strategies and the narrower tactics that differentiate high-growth firms. This year's study includes nearly 1,300 firms, of which about 360 are engineering firms.
To talk with us about the study is Karl Feldman, a partner at Hinge Marketing.
Click here to read a blog post on the key A/E/C results of the 2021 High Growth Study.
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
On today's update we preview the upcoming 2021 ACEC Virtual Annual Convention and Legislative Summit.
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
The podcast welcomed ACEC Board Chair Charlie Gozdziewski and Gayle Packer, president and CEO of Terracon Consultants onto the show to discuss the ACEC Research Institute's recent economic studies and the real world effects of infrastructure investment.
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
On today's Government Affairs Update, Matt Reiffer discusses the newly announced American Jobs Plan, President Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure bill.
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Mick Morrissey, managing principal of Morrissey Goodale, a specialized management consulting and research firm serving the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industries, discusses the reasons behind the accelerating flow of private equity capital into engineering firms.
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
On this week's Government Affairs Update, we're joined by Matt Reiffer to cover new congressional action on infrastructure. We also get into the issue of a return to earmarks in the House.