This meeting is for GBA's Board of Directors, staff, and invited guests

This meeting is for the chairs and vice chairs of Emerging Issues & Trends, Resource Collaboration, Multimedia Delivery Committees and the Board of Director Group Coordinator

This meeting is for the chairs and vice chairs of the CoMET, Environmental and Geotechnical Business Committees and the Board of Director Group Coordinator

Presenter: Brock Simmons

ACCESS Execution Workshop

Unlock the power of execution and elevate your leadership impact. This participant-centered workshop is designed to empower leaders with the tools and strategies needed to deliver results, meet goals, and foster accountability across their teams.

Through our proven ACCESS Execution Framework, we’ll guide you through six essential steps:

1. All Expectations – Setting clear, aligned goals that drive focus and momentum.
2. Coach Through the Bottlenecks – Identifying and overcoming obstacles that hinder progress.
3. Cause and Effect Discussions – Unpacking challenges and creating action-oriented solutions.
4. Every Time – Building consistency and reliability into team execution.
5. <Serious Implications – Understanding the impact of execution on organizational success.
6. Success of the Team – Celebrating and winning as a team.

This is more than just theory. Leaders will dive into real-world, off-caber scenarios, gaining hands-on experience to apply these principles. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a practical, ready-to-use toolset to drive execution, hold people accountable and inspire excellence within their team.

ACCESS Execution is your key to transforming potential into performance and achieving extraordinary results.

Mission: To promote and foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) within GBA, to empower member firms in their own DE&I journey, and provide tools and resources to increase innovation, growth, sustainability, and profitability.

Chairperson:
Robert Howard, P.E.
Geo-Technology Associates, Inc.
rhoward@gtaeng.com

Mission: To collaborate with other GBA committees, GBA staff, and non-GBA sources to facilitate updates of most valuable reference materials; guide the production of new reference materials; develop ways to reformat and repurpose educational materials to enhance its use by members and the profession; and track/catalog existing materials to avoid unnecessary duplication.

Chairperson: 
Chuck A. Gregory, P.E.
Terracon
chuck.gregory@terracon.com

Presenter: Brock Simmons

ACCESS Execution Workshop

Unlock the power of execution and elevate your leadership impact. This participant-centered workshop is designed to empower leaders with the tools and strategies needed to deliver results, meet goals, and foster accountability across their teams.

Through our proven ACCESS Execution Framework, we’ll guide you through six essential steps:

1. All Expectations – Setting clear, aligned goals that drive focus and momentum.
2. Coach Through the Bottlenecks – Identifying and overcoming obstacles that hinder progress.
3. Cause and Effect Discussions – Unpacking challenges and creating action-oriented solutions.
4. Every Time – Building consistency and reliability into team execution.
5. Serious Implications – Understanding the impact of execution on organizational success.
6. Success of the Team – Celebrating and winning as a team.

This is more than just theory. Leaders will dive into real-world, off-caber scenarios, gaining hands-on experience to apply these principles. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a practical, ready-to-use toolset to drive execution, hold people accountable and inspire excellence within their team.

ACCESS Execution is your key to transforming potential into performance and achieving extraordinary results.

Mission: To identify and respond to construction-materials engineering and testing (CoMET) issues as they arise and develop educational content to help members and their clients deal with CoMET issues in a manner that enhances the profession and demonstrates value.

Chairperson:
Bryce W. Moore
Blackburn Consulting
brycem@blackburnconsulting.com

Mission: To respond to geotechnical issues as they arise and develop educational content to help members deal with these issues in a manner that enhances their professionalism and demonstrates value.

Chairperson:
Blake E. Cotton, P.E., LEED AP
Freese and Nichols. Inc.
blake.cotton@freese.com

Presenter: Stacey Bush

An extension of the individual committee meetings, this gathering is to celebrate recent successes, share new goals for the coming year, and review opportunities for collaboration. All in an effort to best serve GBA and our members. Like an orchestra, GBA is an ensemble that produces the best results when the distinct groups work together.

Presenter: Teresa Peterson, P.E., C.M.E., LEED AP O&M, ENV SP