Innovating & Cultivating Effective Teams Through Emotional Intelligence

Cost: $175 per person

This program is SOLD OUT.

About the Event:

Building upon the morning’s larger group outcomes, a smaller, more personalized session will take participants into a deeper dive as to how their own EI impacts the people that surround them and teams they work with. Through this more individualized coaching session, participants will learn how to use EI to cultivate effective and innovative teams.

* Session includes breakfast and coffee/tea/juices/water for in-person attendees.

Key Takeaways:

Participants will be able to –

• Define emotional intelligence and how the typical AEC emotional profile contributes to many industry problems.
• Analyze your own emotions and identify how they affect your day-to-day interactions with others and your own mental and physical performance, health, and well-being.
• Determine how emotional intelligence can be measured and improved.

Sponsorship opportunities available for this event, please contact Tina Campanella for more information.

Program Sponsors Include:

     

 

 

 

 

About the Speaker:

Brent Darnell, Owner | President, Brent Darnell International

Brent Darnell is President and Owner of Brent Darnell International, a training and consulting company that maximizes companies’ success by tapping into people’s “soft” skills. He is the international best-selling author of “The People-Profit Connection: How Emotional Intelligence Can Maximize People Skills and Maximize Your Profits,” as well as an engineer, teacher, trainer, speaker & coach.

Brent’s history in the AEC industry dates back three generations. His grandfather was a carpenter and a painter, and Brent grew up in awe of his father, watching him build projects that shaped people’s lives and the world in which we live. Brent was the first person in his family to graduate from college, earning his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 then began his own construction career.

Since 2000, he has been actively teaching AEC industry professionals people skills and emotional intelligence while focusing on health, wellness, and peak performance. Brent’s passion to transform the industry into one that is more collaborative, more relationship driven, leaner, and more fun led him to this current role. Because of his first-hand experiences working in the construction industry, he speaks with a deep understanding of his audience and the problems they commonly face. The impacts of his unique and engaging programs span the globe to 5 continents and 20 different countries including places such as New York, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Cape Town, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Prague, London, and as far away as Hong Kong. In 2011, Brent’s accomplishments in the building business success using his Emotional Intelligence approach earned him the prestigious honor of being named among Engineering News-Record’s Top 25 Newsmakers.

His clients include Skanska, Clark, McCarthy, Hunt, Hardin, Balfour Beatty, Truland Electric, Guarantee Electric, Jacobsen Construction, Kiewit, Granite, Brasfield & Gorrie, Caddell, WS Nielsen, Nobia, Langan Engineering, S&ME Engineering, Cousins Properties, Lyles Construction, and Geotechnical Services, Inc.