Pathways to Success

Engineering Inc. magazine

How ACEC Can Help Engineer Your Leadership Development

While ACEC membership provides myriad advantages for engineers, those who choose to become leaders can realize even more benefits-from an expanded network to the development of skills that can help propel their career.

That's why ACEC's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B) Committee launched the Leadership Paths subgroup, with a focus on helping member firm employees take their career paths to the next level. For its first initiative, the group has created a welcome packet and infographics for new members that outline the various paths to ACEC leadership-no matter where they are in their career.

"When I first started as an executive at ACEC/PA, it was always hard to get people involved in ACEC because they had preconceived notions that it was an executives' club or only for certain people at the firm," says Eric Madden, vice chair of the DEI&B Committee and chief marketing officer of JMT. "That couldn't be further from the truth."

Madden says the goal of the Leadership Paths subgroup is to encourage engineers, surveyors, and others involved in the business of engineering firms to get involved with the organization. Over time, that will create a more robust and diverse pipeline of future leaders.

"There will always be a gap in leadership development if you don't have people to pull from," Madden says. "If you don't have a farm team, nobody is ever going to play in the majors."

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