2022 PARTNERS IN PROGRESS CONFERENCE

Building the Future Together

A successful future requires labor and management to work together toward common goals. To do that, we need strong leaders who can build coalitions, have the knowledge and skills to understand the needs and opportunities of where the construction industry is headed in the next 5, 10, and 20 years, and be willing to capitalize on the best practices of the industry. Above all, the future requires recruiting and retaining the best, most skilled workers into the industry. Partners in Progress Conference 2022 is designed around the skills and knowledge necessary to meet these needs. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas on March 1 & 2, 2022.

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Keynote Speakers

Jim Abbott, Former Professional Baseball Player, New York Yankees

Jim Abbott was an all-American hurler at Michigan. He won the Sullivan Award in 1987, was the pitcher for the Gold Medal

Olympic Team in 1988, and threw a 4-0 no-hitter for the New York Yankees vs Cleveland (September 4, 1993), all without his right hand. Abbott has worked with the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) on several initiatives encouraging businesses to hire people with disabilities. His autobiography, Imperfect: An Improbable Life, was released in 2012 to glowing reviews.

Mike Abrashoff, Former Commander, USS Benfold and Author, It’s Your Ship

The Navy selected Mike Abrashoff to become Commander of the USS Benfold when he was 36, which made him the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet. The immediate challenges that he faced on this underperforming Naval war ship were staggering: exceptionally low morale, high turnover, and unacceptably low performance evaluations. Few thought that this ship could improve. In many ways, the USS Benfold was actually an extreme example of the same problems facing many organizations today. Using the tools from his Navy experience, Abrashoff founded GLS Worldwide. The firm challenges leaders at all levels to reimagine their leadership thinking and create new ways to elevate individual, team, and organizational performance.

Emerging Leaders Initiative

Leadership is learned. The skills necessary to communicate, inspire trust, and coalition build are something that takes time to develop. Likewise, understanding our industry’s future, both the struggles and successes at the highest levels, is not something everyone gets sufficient exposure to in their current day-to-day roles.

This is why Partners in Progress has designed a perfect inperson opportunity for future industry leaders to experience just what current labor and management leaders see every day, only now in a fully collaborative environment where networking and problem-solving takes the center stage.

Partners in Progress Emerging Leaders

SMART are giving Chapters and Locals the opportunity to register two emerging leaders from their area (one labor and one management) to attend the conference by waiving their respective registration fees.

Selected emerging leaders need only to meet the following criteria to have their registration fee waived:

• Must be under the age of 35 and • Must have at least one or more current representative(s) from the local area or chapter registered to attend the conference.

Only one future leader from the labor side and one future leader from the management side registered per Local and Chapter is eligible for this initiative.

Selecting an Emerging Leader

Partners in Progress encourages Locals and Chapters to look for those individuals who show exceptional motivation, drive, and initiative to take on leadership responsibilities, informally or formally, in their current position. Further, it might be worthwhile to identify emerging leaders who will ultimately bring diversity in race, gender, abilities, and/or gender identity to their leadership team and reflect the workforce of the future. Broadening of ideas and experiences better allows the industry to recruit from a wide talent pool, truly demonstrating the commitment to being inclusive and diverse.

Registering Emerging Leaders

Once your Local or Chapter selects an emerging leader, email Katie Kirchner at kjkirchner4@gmail.com with the following information:

• Emerging leader name, • Chapter/Local union affiliation, • Job title, • Current employer, • Email address, • Mailing address, • Any dietary restrictions or special accommodation needs, and • Submission deadline.

The names of all emerging leaders must be received by December 17, 2021. Emerging leaders will be formally registered on December 20, and will receive a registration confirmation email at that time.

Visit pinp.org/conferences/2022pinp on or after September 8, 2021, to register and to learn more. Watch these pages for updates to the schedule, speaker list, and other programs and initiatives. ▪