Ariat Dirt World Summit

Last week was fun. The 2025 Ariat Dirt World Summit is going to be HUGE! 519 tickets purchased in 1 week. Huge shoutout to everyone who has put trust in our BuildWitt team to deliver value. It's humbling to be able to journey with you to be better every day. Tickets are $2395 until Dec 31. Get more info at dirtworld.com or hit the link in my bio. #betterdirtworld #bettereveryday

After a great experience at the 2024 Ariat Dirt World Summit, I'm registered for 2025 in Dallas. If you're looking for training for your team with leaders in the construction industry this is for you! Last day to register and save 25%!

For the marketers out there: We sold 200+ tickets for the 2025 Ariat Dirt World Summit within three days last week. For context, we sold 183 tickets total in 8 weeks between Summit last year and the end of 2023. Why? Here are a few thoughts: [valuable content] We have an incredible lineup of speakers already locked in for 2025 that Dan Briscoe put together (James Clear, Jesse Cole, Cy Wakeman, Tim Grover, AND Kim Scott??) [promotion + prep] We were more prepared this year as a marketing team to sell the 2025 Summit with a stronger promotion strategy and having Randy Blount and Jason Richmond highlight it onstage [removing friction] Kara MacDonald (our integration, systems, and data wizard) made it easier for companies to buy group tickets at one time [experience] We worked our a**es off with the Platinum XP team to deliver another incredible experience at this year’s Summit that provided a ton of value [community] But most importantly, we found a community of leaders who believe in our vision for a #BetterDirtWorld. We created an event for growth-minded individuals in the critical infrastructure industries who want to come together to better themselves, their companies, and their industry. We're definitely the stagehands, not the stars here. Hope to see y’all in Dallas next year!

Over the past week I had the privilege to be in the presence of many veterans. So, I thought today would be the perfect day to share my thoughts and to thank them all for their dedication to protect each one of us, our families and our country. At the Ariat Dirt World Summit last week, veterans and Echelon Front's Rob Jones and Dave Berke delivered an unforgettable message using their military experiences as reference to talk about the mindset, actions and attitude necessary for solid leadership. The two big takeaways for me were: 1. Extreme Ownership (no excuses/no one else to blame/own all problems) empowers us to take action and control the situation we are in by owning our attitude, mindset and how we respond; and 2. Using their Leadership Loop (10 leadership principles) to make sure we are reviewing them to identify the root cause of a problem so we can effectively solve it. Of the 10 principles, my favorites are #1 - Time ~ we never know how much we have, so what is the deadline and how much time will I take to resolve the issue? And, #10 - Relationships ~ how do my decisions affect relationships? Is a situation going to "expand or earn relationship capital?" Then yesterday at church, our pastor asked all of the veterans to stand. With nearly every one of the 3,000 seats filled, hundreds of people stood as we honored them with so much gratitude and a lengthy applause. It was a really special opportunity as I looked around at all of the men and women standing and couldn't help but also notice many of their families sitting alongside them imagining the sacrifices they have also made. Thank you to all of the veterans! ????

If there is one thing the Ariat Dirt World Summit showed me this week, it's this: our industry has an abundance of love. Agape love. It was evident as I watched grown men and women fight back tears while telling the stories of how their lives had been dis-integrated. Void of real spirit. This is a good thing, because I'm convinced many young people coming into adulthood are similarly being raised in body, but not in spirit. But think of the opportunity here. If we take it. Agape love involves faithfulness, commitment, and an act of the will. Read that again: an act of the will. Agape love. It doesn't cost a single penny. It doesn't take expense, it takes intent. The intent for us to orient our posture differently. A posture in service of the SPIRIT of the families we serve, that in return serve us. A willful posture -- a posture of agape love. Bring the love. BE the love. Be the steward you were meant to be. If you need help with this, the first place I'd turn to, is God. He's bailed me out more times than I care to recall. A million thanks to Aaron Witt, Dan Briscoe, Jason Richmond, Randy Blount, and the entire BuildWitt team. Here's the man that cultivated my spirit -- Herbert E. Sargent, standing alongside a much younger Herbert R. Sargent (me), in 1986. #bethelove #cultivatethespirit

Back in the saddle today after 3 days well spent at the Ariat Dirt World Summit! Like many of my colleagues and friends whom I've shared my excitement with, you might be wondering, "So, what is exactly is the Dirt World Summit?" For me, its an incredible gathering of forward-thinking companies in the infrastructure and site work space, all united by a mission to improve their organizations while tackling some of the industry's most important -but often overlooked and underprioritized- challenges, including: *Attracting new talent by debunking misconceptions about the industry *Developing top-tier training programs that align with today's learning styles *Normalizing mental health discussions and promoting suicide prevention *Fostering inclusive diversity in the construction workforce Shannon Tevendale, MBA, PHR and I were proud to represent Faulconer Construction this year, and we're energized to put these conversations and initiatives to work back home! #dirtworld #continuousimprovement

I promised the 2nd Ariat Dirt World Summit would be better than the 1st. We’re raising the bar again in 2025 with great speakers, 1,600 attendees, and the Gaylord Texan venue. Speaker lineup: James Clear Jesse Cole Kim Scott Tim Grover Cy Wakeman Mark Miller Nick Lavery Mike Abrashoff Randy Gravitt Jim Mathis Daron Earlewine Ryan Schmitt @Nick Thune Jeffrey Spatz Aaron, Randy and Jason And more coming…. Plus, this year when you buy a ticket, you get access to BuildWitt Connect until Dec 31, 2025. This is our online community where we do weekly sessions with expert speakers and 24/7 peer-to-peer collaboration. Early bird tickets are $700 off until next Friday, Nov 15th. We sold almost 200 tickets yesterday so don’t wait and go to the Dirt World website to register your team. Thanks for everyone who attended this year and for blowing up LinkedIn with your posts!

The Ariat Dirt World Summit was a tremendous success! We’re beyond grateful to have been part of this incredible event, where we auctioned not one, but two Dynapac CA25000D vibratory rollers—raising funds for the inspiring Dream On 3 mission. Thank you to everyone who made this memorable day possible! Dream On 3 | BuildWitt | Dynapac North America | Dirt World Summit #BidForACause #RollingOutDreams #DreamOn3 #Dynapac #AriatDirtWorldSummit #BuildWitt