2013-AEC-HR-Summit-Brochure

A/E/C Industry
“Great ideas as always – dynamic – I came away with several
ideas to implement back at work.”
- Jill Patterson, HR Manager, The RMH Group, Inc.
Summit
Presented by PSMJ and The Employee Engagement Group
April 4-5, 2013
Chicago, Illinois
Plus Pre-Conference April 3, 2013
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A/E/C Industry
Join your fellow HR colleagues in Chicago, IL
for the 4th Annual A/E/C Industry HR Summit
on April 4-5, 2013, hosted by two renowned
industry education leaders: PSMJ Resources,
Inc. and The Employee Engagement Group.
The A/E/C Industry Human Resources Summit is a senior level
HR event specifically designed to address the increasing needs and
demands of senior HR leaders like you — leaders who must deal with
critical employee and firm issues on a daily basis. Over two days, you
meet with your A/E/C Industry peers, learn about the industry’s “best
practice”, hear the latest industry trends from panel discussions
and network with other HR professionals who are dealing with the
same challenges you are. You will be able to examine successful, reallife
case studies, get actual A/E/C survey results, and network with
peers about their proven solutions to problems just like yours.
The entire Summit is built around helping you become a more effective
HR executive, while opening doors to new perspectives and points
of view. It’s a great opportunity to experience the new trends and
solutions, coupled with a fantastic networking opportunity with all
the key HR decision makers and influencers in a comfortable setting.
The HR Summit easily pays for itself with the opportunity to build
relationships with fellow HR industry leaders.
Who We Are
PSMJ Resources, Inc., a recognized leader in surveying and
benchmarking the A/E/C industry, has extensive publishing and
research capability and experience, is an industry leader in mergers
and acquisitions, and training and consulting. PSMJ has been
educating and advising A/E/C clients for the past 30 years.
The Employee EngagementGroup (TEEG) is a global services
firm that works with leadership teams to implement best in
class leadership and employee engagement programs, including
surveys, workshops, consulting , and the world’s first virtual cloud
based employee engagement resource center, The Employee
Engagement Library. TEEG was founded by author, speaker, and
HR/AEC industry expert Bob Kelleher.
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Who Should Attend
Every firm member who deals with employees and clients in an HR
capacity needs to attend to find out what’s going on in the world of
A/E/C HR. HR Directors, VP’s of HR, Senior HR leaders and other key
executives who oversee the HR function for their firms need to attend,
as well as other senior firm leaders with functional responsibility for one
or more of the following areas:
• Compensation and Benefits
• Staffing
• Retention and Engagement Programs
• Training and Development
• Leadership Development
• Organizational Development
• Talent Management
• Human Capital Management
• Employee Engagement Group
Human Resource professionals are essential firm leaders, and are
needed even more now to succeed in this tough economy. As an HR
professional, you must ensure that your firm is run better than the
next firm. In order to do this, you must be experts on relationship
building, employee engagement and retention, hiring the best
people, employment law, and benefit and compensation design and
administration. Once you have the expertise, you need to put it to
action and show your Principals and top management what you
should do to make a competitive difference in the industry.
Our No Risk Guarantee
Our HR Summit is designed to directly address your needs and
questions as an HR leader in the A/E/C industry. There is no other
Summit like this in the country. Our leaders offer advice and case
studies from their own A/E/C HR experiences. The information
you get here can be implemented immediately upon your return
to the office. If you are unsatisfied with the quality of the Summit for
any reason, please send us a letter detailing the reasons you were not
satisfied, and we will return your investment in full.
“I enjoyed the workshop. I heard how valuable
this would be from my colleagues – now I know
first-hand!”
- Beverly Williams, Vice President, HR, Langan

Conference Agenda
Thursday, April 4, 2013
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Host Keynote - PSMJ’s HR Survey Results and
Industry Trends
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Host Keynote - Build an Employment Brand That
Engages Your Employees, Candidates, and
Customers
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch Keynote Presentation: Andrew “Flip”
Filipowski - Technology and HR
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION #1– Best Practices in Benefit
Plan Design and Administration. Featuring the
results of PSMJ’s 2013 A/E Bonus & Benefits
Benchmark Survey
2:00PM – 3:00PM BEST PRACTICE #1 - Benchmarking Of HR Metrics:
7 Key Business Metrics every HR Director needs
to know. Featuring an HR Metric roundtable
discussion by company size
3:00 PM – 3:15PM Break
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PANEL DISCUSSION #2: Recruitment and
Retention Best Practices Featuring the Latest Staffing
Trends
4:15 PM– 5:30 PM Idea Exchange Laboratory Sharing of Best Practices
by subject matter and company size
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Day 1 Closing Comments
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Cocktail Reception
Friday, April 5, 2013
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM – 9:30AM PANEL DISCUSSION #3 How to Build a High
Performing Culture Through Pay For Performance
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM BEST PRACTICE #2 – How to be the Best of the
Best - Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For
Featuring Michelle Perry, SRVP of HR - Balfour
Beatty, and Renee Gartelos, Recruitment Director -
Burns & McDonnell
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM PANEL DISCUSSION #4 – Corporate Social
Responsibility
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch Keynote Presentation: Brad Karsh - The
Millennial Manager: Grooming Tomorrow’s Leaders
Today - What They Can’t Learn from Mom or Siri
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Closing Comments
Pre-Conference Summit
April 3, 2013: 10:00am - 5:00pm
30 Practical Tools To Engage Your
Employees To Drive Business Results
Learn from one of the nation’s leading engagement experts, and noted
A/E/C Industry HR thought leader (25 years’ experience in the A/E/C
industry)
Learn how to:
• Apply 10 Employee Engagement Steps That Will Transform Your Culture
• Bring back over 30 practical Engagement Tools
• Bring back the latest practical employee engagement processes and methodologies
• Find the latest research to make the business case to invest in engaging employees
• Understand Your Leadership Baseline and how to develop engaged leaders
• Receive credits towards PHR and SPHR recertification through the through the
Human Resource Certification Institute.
This signature workshop has been delivered across the globe
and averages a 4.9/5 rating evaluation!!
Featured Speakers:
Andrew “Flip” Filipowski Conference Keynote Speaker
Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
SilkRoad
Technology and HR
Recognized as one of the world’s most successful high-tech
entrepreneurs, philanthropists and industry visionaries,
he served as CEO and COO of Cullinet, the largest software
company of the 80s, and founder and CEO of Platinum technology, the
8th largest global software company when sold to CA for $4 billion. One
of Upside Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Information
Technology, Flip has also received E&Y and Merrill Lynch Entrepreneur
of the Year Awards, the Young President’s Organization Legacy Award and
the Anti-Defamation League’s Torch of Liberty Award for his work fighting
hate on the Internet.
Brad Karsh Conference Keynote Speaker
The Millennial Manager: Grooming Tomorrow’s Leaders
Today (What They Can’t Learn From Mom Or Siri)
Brad Karsh is President, Keynote Speaker, and
Generational Guru. An accomplished public speaker and
author, Brad has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and Dr.
Phil and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The
Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, and many others. Brad is
author of Confessions of a Recruiting Director (Prentice Hall Press, 2006).
Prior to starting JB Training Solutions, Brad spent 15 years at advertising
giant Leo Burnett in Chicago where he worked in HR and was responsible
for hiring and training hundreds of employees.

“This is the best workshop in which I have ever
participated.”
- Andrea Kourafas, Director of HR, Envirotrac
Featured Speakers:
Bob Kelleher
CEO of The Employee Engagement Group
Bob Kelleher is the CEO of The Employee Engagement
Group (www.EmployeeEngagement), and author of the
just released Creativeship, A Novel For Emerging Leaders,
along with the nation’s top selling employe engagement
book, Louder Than Words, 10 Practical Employee
Engagement Steps…that Drive Results! After spending 24 years in the
A/E/C industry, Bob has become a recognized thought leader, speaker,
and consultant on the subjects of Employee Engagement, Workforce
Trends, and Leadership. Before opening his own consulting business, Bob
was the Chief Human Capital Officer for AECOM, a Fortune 500 global
professional services firm, with 45,000 employees located in 450 offices
throughout the world.
David Burstein, P.E.
PSMJ Resources, Inc.
Dave has 30 years of design firm experience in
numerous management positions; he was president
of a 100-person planning company and of a 1,800-person
engineering company. As a PSMJ consultant for the past
12 years, Dave has helped hundreds of design firms
achieve breakthrough improvements in their businesses. In addition,
he has written three books on design firm management and delivered
hundreds of seminars on the subject.
In Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For,
only 2 A/E/C firms appear (and we’ve got both of
them on a panel!). Learn what Michelle L. Perry, SPHR,
SVP, Human Resources - Central Region for Balfour
Beatty Construction (#44) and Renee Gartelos,
Recruitment Director - Burns & McDonnell (#26) have
done to accomplish this remarkable feat.
11 New Things for 2013!
1. Learn why you need to push your Generation Y employees
into leadership positions….NOW!
2. How to position your EVP (Employer Value Proposition) to
attract and retain the best!
3. What the latest HR trends in the A/E/C industry are and how
they’ll affect you.
4. What impact will the presidential election have on health
care?
5. Learn how Human Resources can embrace social media as
an accelerator of your brand.
6. Ideas to leverage your firm as a Corporate Social
Responsibility Employer.
7. Best practices from A/E/C award winning “Best Employer”
firms and how to apply them at your firm.
8. How to build a high performance culture.
9. The latest HR research and benchmarks to support your
firm’s HR investments and initiatives.
10. How to build professional HR network that understands and
knows the AEC industry.
11. Participate in an “Idea Exchange Laboratory” with HR
colleagues from companies of similar size.
You won’t get all this cutting-edge knowledge by attending
a conference that isn’t specific to the A/E/C industry.
Register today to learn what you need to.
“As always, innovative ideas and tools presented to help our
business continue to excel.”
- Mary Murphy, HR Director, Dudek

Travel & Accommodations
Conrad Chicago
521 North Rush Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-645-1500
Room Rate: $199 single/double
Room Cut-off Date: 3/12/13
Connected to Nordstrom
and Westfield North Bridge
Shopping the Conrad Chicago
offers direct access to an
extensive variety of restaurants
and fashionable retailers as well as views of Lake Michigan and the
Chicago skyline.
A block of rooms is reserved for PSMJ attendees at each location. To
secure reduced rates, please make hotel reservations by the cut-off
dates and be sure to mention that you are attending HR Summit. If
you have any problems or questions regarding reservations, please
contact PSMJ’s education department at (800) 537-7765.
“This conference was one of the best I have attended
because it addressed the issues facing my job and my
industry. I loved the blend of right- and left-brain ideas!”
- Timber Chinn, Corporate HR Manager, Cottman Engineers
PSMJ’s Seminar earns you up to 12 AIA LUs and/or
12PDHs (except in New York).
PSMJ is a registered provider with the Florida Board of
Engineers, provider #PE 0003546
In addition, this program is eligible for up to 16 Society
for Human Resources Management (SHRM) CEUs (8.75
Conference - 7.25 Pre-Conference). Contact PSMJ for more
information (800) 537–7765
It’s Easy To Register!
Mail: PSMJ Resources, Inc.
10 Midland Avenue • Newton, MA 02458
E-mail: education@psmj.com
Web: www.psmj.co
Phone: (617) 965-0055 • (800)537-PSMJ
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Refunds and Cancellations
Cancellations received in writing at least 45 business days prior to the Summit receive full refunds.
Cancellations received in writing between 44-11 business days prior to the program receive a credit letter,
good for six months, towards any PSMJ education program. Cancellations made 10 or fewer business days
prior to the Summit and/or no–shows are not eligible for refunds or credits, however, you may substitute
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A/E/C Industry
Summit
Presented by PSMJ and The Employee Engagement Group
10 Midland Avenue, Newton, MA 02458
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