Built Revolution Podcast

Barry Schrock from Chemours and Connie McLaughlin from KBR talk about a recent project involving the implementation of iPads in the field. Barry and Connie share insightful lessons learned on how to drive innovation from the top down and build broad field support for implementation.

Kristen Hansen, world renowned expert on neuroscience and leadership and author of Traction, sits down with Gretchen Gagel to discuss leadership, performance and more. 

Storytelling is a hot topic in management today, and the Built Revolution was thrilled to welcome Gabrielle Dolan, author of “Stories for Work: The Essential Guide to Business Storytelling”, to the show. Gabrielle shares tips for how storytelling helps build authentic leadership by giving us all a tool to share our human side at work, and how this important skill builds trust and employee commitment.

Ever had a great idea but nobody would listen? Advocating for ideas is an important skill in this era of change and the need for innovation in our industry. The Built Revolution welcomed University of Texas Professor John Daly, who together with CII Executive Stephen Mulva and Continuum Advisory Group Principal Gretchen Gagel, discussed the art of building support for your amazing ideas.

The construction industry is realizing that the “soft skills” are really the “hard skills” and are critical to our ability to collaborate on construction programs. Dr. Peter Senge, famed author of the The Fifth Discipline, joined the Built Revolution to discuss his work in organizational and team learning, systems thinking and collaborative leadership. Dr. Senge discusses the importance of trust and psychological safety in creating collaboration efforts, and the need to build mastery and competence in certain critical skills. His insights are of incredible importance to our industry as we determine how to disrupt and improve.

The Built Revolution was thrilled to welcome acclaimed author and Harvard Professor Emeritus Michael Beer to our podcast. Mike shares critical ideas about building a resilient, agile organization, both from his past books such as High Commitment, High Performance, and his upcoming book, Fit to Compete. Mike’s thoughts on how to build a trusting, transparent culture that promotes the identification of effective strategies and tactics for improvement and growth are spot-on. Listeners are certain to take away many ideas for their own teams and companies.

Unfortunately, Howard Ashcraft can’t make you a martini via the podcast, but he can answer a lot of your common questions about Integrated Project Delivery contracting and how to truly change the way you collaborate with your partners. In this episode of the Built Revolution, Kelcey sits down with Howard (Partner with Hanson Bridgett) to talk about transforming the construction industry through better contracting and true collaboration. A few resources to learn more:

• AIA CC Working Definition of IPD (free!)
• Integrated Project Delivery: An Action Guide for Leaders (free!)
• Integrating Project Delivery (Howard’s book is available on Amazon – pricing varies by format)

Kelcey Henderson speaks with Ryan Maibach, President of Barton Malow, about innovation and driving efficiency through people and relationships. Ryan discusses Barton Malow’s innovation framework, as well as re-imagining and re-imaging the construction industry. In the future, our industry will be able to offer both consistency of experience and certainty of outcome. To get there, will require calling into question the entire contract structure and all of the boxes and lines we’ve drawn in the past. 

Kyle Majchrowski’s LinkedIn profile says he has a passion for recognizing reality with others, and bringing folks together to collectively improve our reality. Eight years ago, he and a few colleagues created a forum to discuss common challenges in construction across various industries in a really innovative way. On this episode of the Built Revolution, Kyle (Senior Project Executive with Banner Health) shares his passion for people. We also talk about driving change in the industry and explore new metrics, such as the “average daily number of smiles.” For more on the Improving Capital Projects Symposium, check out rippleintent.org.

Tom Chermack, noted author, scholar and consultant, talks about scenario planning and its application to the construction industry. In today’s world of velocity and disruption, scenario planning is a critical tool to help organizations “think the unthinkable” and prepare themselves to react to changes in the business environment faster than their competitors. Tom’s insights on scenario planning, as a global thought leader on the topic, are spot on.