Building a Better Workforce
Engineering Influence from ACEC

Building a Better Workforce

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 202614 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

Initially unveiled in Summer 2023, nearly 200 ACEC member firms have participated in the Roadmap — a DEI&B maturity model and benchmarking tool that gives engineering firm executives a comprehensive, data-driven way to assess the maturity of their firm's DEIB program, with actionable suggestions for making further progress. Chad Clinehens brings the data and the on-the-ground perspective from years of benchmarking the AEC industry, and together unpacks what the roadmap recommends, where firms are already making progress, and where the real work still lies ahead. 🔗 Get the Report: https://program.acec.org/diversity-roadmap-acec-research-institute/?hsLang=en#get-report <b...

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Welcome to the Engineering Influence Podcast from the American Council of Engineering Companies coming to you from our 2026 Convention and Literacy of Summit in Washington, D.C. And I'm very pleased to be joined on the program today by Chad Kleine, the CEO of Zwied Group. Chad, thank you very much for joining us.

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It's great to be here. Thank you. little bit about yourself, Zweig Group, how you've kind of gone from the engineering side and the business side of the industry.

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Sure. Well, it's kind of neat this morning, right before the opening session, I ran into a guy that was on the very first day of my very first job, 32 years in the engineering industry. So that's the neat thing about these events, it brings people back. Brings everybody back together, yeah.

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