Keynote Speakers

2009 Leadership Forum Keynote Speakers

Monday, May 18, 2009

Breakfast with Keynote Speaker Joel Weldon.

Keynote speakers will give attendees their predictions on the future of the CM industry and the economy.

As a former construction worker who turned down a four-year college scholarship because he thought he wasn't "smart enough" to go to college, Joel Weldon is living proof that human potential can be tapped, and your entire life transformed, when even one good idea is presented, accepted, and acted upon!

Even in the worst of times, Weldon says, "SOME were able to find creative and innovative solutions to the challenges they faced. The same is true today." Use Joel's timely and powerful message as a springboard to the most valuable Leadership Forum yet!

Weldon is the only speaker to have earned all four of the highest honors in the speaking profession-induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, the covered Communication & Leadership Award, The Golden Gavel "For his profound impact on corporate America" and, in 2006 he was named "Legend of the Speaking Profession."

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker William W. Badger, Ph.D., P.E., NAC, Professor

William W. Badger, PhD, PE, NAC, is an industry veteran who spent his early career as Commander of a US Army Engineering District, providing leadership and management skills for a large cadre within that engineering organization. For two decades, he ran the Del W. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University. He was instrumental in the School's growth from a department-level organization to one of the only three schools of construction in the US university system. For his outstanding leadership in the field of education, Badger was recognized as one of the 25 ENR "Newsmakers of 2008." Today, he is focused on sharing his scientific approach to leadership in the construction industry.