The Zweig Letter

By Chad Clinehens | AEC leaders cannot predict every turn ahead, but they can build firms ready to adapt, invest, and seize opportunity. 

By Kyle Ahern | Repeat clients generate most AEC firms’ work, yet many firms still lack a formal approach to protecting and developing their most important accounts.

By Mark Zweig | The best speakers challenge assumptions, share hard-earned lessons, and give leaders something worth taking home.

By Matt Cooper | Firms that standardize how they track, pursue, and convert opportunities can spend less time scrambling and more time winning the right work.

By Joseph Crabtree | Firms preserve more than technical knowledge when experienced leaders pass along judgment, context, and care.

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By Ying Liu | Execution readiness means preparing people to act while the strategy is still being developed, not after the retreat ends.

By Greg Sepeda | Poorly managed transformation can turn uncertainty into disengagement and send talented employees quietly looking for the exit.

By Mark Zweig | Outside directors can help AEC firms challenge assumptions, strengthen accountability, and make better decisions about growth, leadership, and risk.

By Sarah Kinard | Clients are researching, comparing, and forming opinions about your firm long before your team knows a pursuit is underway.

By Sara Rains | A practical approach to reducing waste, strengthening compliance, and creating sustainable improvements.

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IMEG has acquired Florida-based Construction Engineering Group (CEG), a multidisciplinary engineering firm. Zweig Group advised CEG in this transaction.

By Will Swearingen | Clean financials reduce buyer uncertainty, strengthen seller leverage, and make it easier to defend the value of your firm.

By Michael Sanderson | Mid-sized A/E firms can hold a powerful advantage by pairing greater resources with closer relationships and faster execution.

By Mark Zweig | In AEC, responsiveness is part of the service, and firms that make clients wait are giving competitors an opening.

By Julia Moroney | Emotional intelligence becomes organizational intelligence when leaders use human signals to diagnose problems, guide change, and improve execution.

By Carrie Hawley | Owners can gain greater cost certainty and protect design intent by rethinking when and how lighting distributors join the project team.

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By Jeremy Clarke | A board seat comes with fiduciary duties, legal exposure, and responsibilities that deserve more than an informal handoff.

By Scott Butcher | Across firms of all sizes and markets, several strategic priorities continue to rise to the top as leaders plan for what comes next.

By Mark Zweig | The biggest threats to a firm are often predictable, preventable risks that leadership simply failed to plan for.

By Ricardo Jesús Maga Rojas | Career growth in AEC becomes more meaningful when professionals stop chasing a single finish line and start exploring what comes next.

By Kraig Kern | The firms getting the most from AI are not buying better tools, but building better systems for organizing institutional knowledge.