The KA Connect 2020 Speaker Lineup

Designing an Adaptable Organization

Jennifer A. Chatman, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

A Skeptic’s Guide to Change

John Robison, COO, KTGY

Changing at the Speed of Trust

David Bolt, CEO, GMB

Rob Den Besten, COO, GMB

Change Management Strategies for Ownership Transition Success

Lisa M. Robert, Executive Vice President, RS&H

Jennifer L. Stutts, Vice President of Communications, Marketing and Strategy, RS&H

Engineering Change

Tricia Emerson, Founder, Emerson Human Capital Consulting

Learning as a Strategy for Organizational Change: Insights from Healthcare

Christopher G. Myers, Assistant Professor, Academic Director of Executive Education, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Intercultural Competence Could Be the Silver Bullet

Renée Cheng, Dean, College of Built Environments, University of Washington

Managing Change Through Growth by Prioritizing the Employee Experience

Shanda McKinney, Chief Human Resources Officer, Woolpert

Kate Johnson, Corporate Programs and Communications Manager, Woolpert

Overcoming Our Own Good Intentions: Assessing Initiatives to Regain Strategic Focus

Stefnee Trzpuc, Principal, Design Research + Knowledge Management Specialist, BWBR

Data in Service to Design: Strategies for Managing Project Metrics

Katie Robinson, Principal | Marketing & Communications Officer, LS3P

The Power of Embedded Change Agents

Kristina Williams, Director of Design Technology, Lionakis

Back to the Future: Creating a Sustainable Lessons Learned Program

Jim Martin, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Shepley Bulfinch

Register Early for KA Connect 2020

KA Connect 2020, our eleventh annual knowledge management conference for the AEC industry, will take place at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on April 28th and 29th, 2020.

The theme of KA Connect 2020 will be "The Art of Change."

AEC firms are continuously changing. Major drivers of change include items such as growth (staff, geography, markets, services, mergers & acquisitions), transition (leadership, ownership, subject matter experts), technology, and five generations of employees in the workplace. The pace of change is picking up and shows no sign of stopping. At the same time, AEC firms are striving to become even greater places to work — more innovative, equitable, inclusive, collaborative, transparent, healthy, balanced, sustainable, and calm.

Our KA Connect 2020 speakers will share strategies for redesigning your firms to thrive during periods of accelerated change, becoming more effective change agents, and leading your firms into an unknowable future while reducing anxiety and fear and increasing calm and collaboration.

Attendees will have ample time to network and collaborate with their peers in breakout groups.

If you are passionate about improving the way your AEC firm leads and manages change, this is the conference for you.

We hope you'll join us.

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