Boost firm performance with the ACEC/MO & PSMJ AEC Project Management Bootcamp

For over 20 years, architecture and engineering firms seeking improved financial and project performance have sent key staff to the AEC Project Management Bootcamp. The result? Stronger and more confident PMs, better and more profitable projects, and happier clients.

AEC Project Management Bootcamp's Game-Changing Takeaways

Over 52,000 AEC Project Managers Have Learned How to:

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Deliver Projects with Stronger Financial Results

Participants learn proven insight to build and manage AEC project plans that better protect fee, control scope, and proactively manage risk. Using real-world scenarios and practical insight from instructors who have decades of experience leading AEC project teams, leading to improved profitability, fewer write-offs, and more predictable project performance.
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Communicate with Confidence and Authority

Participants acquire tools to run more effective client and internal conversations around setting expectations, negotiating scope changes, and resolving conflicts in ways that strengthen relationships rather than strain them.
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Translate Strategy into Day-to-Day Action

Participants learn how to connect firm goals to project execution - aligning staffing, scheduling, and resource allocation so each project supports the company’s growth and operational priorities.
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Lead High-Performing Project Teams

Participants develop practical leadership skills to motivate multidisciplinary teams, delegate effectively, hold people accountable, and create a culture of ownership around schedule, budget, and quality.
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Standardize a Repeatable Approach to Project Success

Participants leave with proven frameworks, checklists, and workflows they can immediately apply - creating consistent project start-ups, better change management, and disciplined closeouts across the firm.
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Adapt to the Evolving AEC Landscape

Master modern project management strategies, including remote collaboration, virtual client engagement, and adapting to shifting market demands.

 

New for 2026

We’ve carefully updated the AEC industry’s most popular PM training program to bring you the most current and rigorously tested AEC-specific guidance on project management. Our latest curriculum delivers even more:

  • Tools and tactics specifically for small projects where the margin for error is smaller!
  • Hands on exercises and workshops using real-world projects to test drive your new skills before you leave the classroom!
  • New ways to improve productivity when your team isn’t in the same office, state, or even country!
  • Insight on where, when, and how to flip scope creep from problem to profits!
  • Where the most successful PMs are using AI as a force multiplier
  • PLUS dozens of tools, templates, checklists, and much more

More than teaching project management… this is DOING project management!

Only PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp is packed with real-world examples, exercises, and workshops to make sure the learning “sticks”. Just a few of the interactive and engaging group exercises and workshops that you will only find in AEC Project Management Bootcamp include:

• Converting a project’s critical success factors into objectives
• Prioritizing and mitigating project risks
• Spotting problems in a project scope
• Building a Work Breakdown Structure
• Planning the resources needed for a project
• Building a project quality control plan
• Developing a program management plan
• Determining which project tasks to delegate to others
• Planning for project change
• Getting a project out of trouble

Benefits

No other project management training investment sets current and aspiring AEC Project Managers up for delivering stronger project performance than PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp because it's the ONLY program that brings:

A proven track record of success.

52,396 (and counting) AEC Project Managers have attended AEC Project Management Bootcamp since its inception in 1980.

Real experience means real-world results.

Our instructors have an average of 23.7 years of actual real-world experience managing AEC projects and AEC Project Managers.

All the insight you need in one curated experience.

From client communications to scheduling and budgeting, we’re constantly ensuring that AEC Project Management Bootcamp is the most robust full stack program of its kind.

Exclusive tools and resources for success.

Only AEC Project Management gives you powerful tools, templates, and checklists to go from idea to action faster.

 

Don’t waste your firm's time and money on lesser imitators or so-called "institutes" with inexperienced instructors, ultra-basic and hypothetical content, and boring presentations. Trying to get truly sustained project management improvement from such inferior services will only leave you frustrated. Count on the AEC industry's premier training provider!

 

Agenda / Hotel / Registration Information

This program will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott Jefferson City, 610 Bolivar Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101.  To download the registration brochure, click here. To register online and see hotel information, click here.  The early-bird deadline to register is Friday, May 8, 2026.  To view the full agenda that will be discussed, click here.  

Speaker:

Emily Tilgner
Emily Tilgner has a passion for making complex ideas simple and easy to integrate as well as bringing efficiency into her organizations. Her experience draws from a background in engineering design leading to working in construction and commissioning - this experience has given her insight into all sides of the industry and how to approach projects holistically to create a successful product and process. With nearly 20 years of experience in the AEC industry, she has gained insight into how to plan projects, manage design, costs and construction, collaboratively work with all project team members and how to lead teams. This background allows her to understand projects and processes from all sides of the table.