Sep 16, 2026
LaShira Champion King never applied to work at Walbridge. She got a call for an internship she had not asked for, planned to be an architect in a black turtleneck, and instead became the company's lean champion because her managing director liked how "our lean champion is L. Champion" sounded in a meeting. Twenty years...
Sep 14, 2026
Callie Johns went to Northern Arizona University undeclared until her uncle staged an intervention over dinner. Ten years later she is a Quality Manager at JE Dunn, running the quality program on a hyperscale data center in Ohio after stints in Phoenix, Oregon, and Austin. She started as a project engineer, hated...
Sep 8, 2026
Matthew Biehl is a Senior Construction Risk Engineering Consultant at AXA XL, the largest provider of subcontractor default insurance in the country. He paid for college loading plywood and laminate at a lumberyard, spent years on the general contractor side including a run as a director of QC, and now walks job sites...
Sep 2, 2026
Corey Zussman is a forensic architect who crossed over to the contractor side in 2006, when almost nobody was doing it. Today he is QA/QC Vice President at AECOM Hunt, with 30+ years, more than 2,000 projects, 200 published Lessons Learned, and over 500 AIA presentations behind him. Carolina sat down with him solo (Tim...
Aug 25, 2026
Turner Construction is the largest general contractor in North America, the number-one green builder 17 years running, and carries a net zero Scope 1, 2, and 3 commitment for 2040. Imani Hamilton is the person working the supply chain side of that promise. In this episode we sit down with Turner's Sustainable Supply...