2027 Leadership Building Block - Communication - Sacramento, CA (May 27)

Includes a Live In-Person Event on 02/25/2027 at 11:00 AM (EST)

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    • Non-member Practitioner - $695
    • Practitioner Member - $595
    • Owner Member - $595
    • Academia Member - $595
    • Industry Partner Academia Member - $595
    • Industry Partner Practitioner Member - $595
    • Industry Partner Owner Member - $595
    • NextGen/Young Professional - $536
    • NextGen/Young Professional – Owner - $536
    • NextGen/Young Professional – Practitioner - $536
    • Underutilized Business Enterprise (UBE) - $476

This course is one of the six modules in the Collaborative Delivery Leadership Academy. 

If you would like to learn more about the Leadership Academy, you can do so here: https://education.dbia.org/dbi...

The courses can be taken in any order, though with the Leadership: Building a Strong Foundation course recommended as the first. Each course contributes essential learnings and concepts to reinforce the mindset shifts needed to successfully lead and work in the Design-Build Done Right™ environment.

To sign up for the other five courses, you can see the full calendar here: https://education.dbia.org/lea...


Course Overview

Everything begins with communication. It is the single most powerful tool we have to elevate everything and everyone around us. Effective communication and conversational intelligence changes everything – how we interact, how we team, how we perform, how we engage, how we trust, etc.

  • First, the course will look at communication from an individual awareness perspective. This component of the session will focus on what communication is and help individuals discover the communication barriers and blind spots that keep them from taking action, taking charge, taking responsibility, and leading effectively.
  • Several “human phenomena” will be discussed to explain various distinctions about communication. In addition, 5 distinct types of conversations will be discussed; conversations that move things forward and get things unstuck when they go awry.
  • The neuroscience of communication will be discussed and how the brain (or various parts of the brain) chemistry changes and reacts to communication – both positively and negatively.
  • The course will cover the topic of conversational intelligence and distinguish level 1 and 2 conversations (transactional and positional) which are where most people and leaders stop. We will move discussions beyond levels 1 and 2 onto level 3 conversations which are transformational. This is the level of conversation that is missing and needed in Design-Build Leadership Done Right.
  • The session will address how communication impacts the tendency to trust, or not to trust—the 3rd topic in the program.


FORMAT: In-person

LOCATION: TBD | Sacramento, CA 

Barbara Jackson, PhD, FDBIA

Barbara Jackson, PhD, FDBIA

President & CEO

Barbara Jackson, LLC

Barbara Jackson is a leading expert in design-build and integrated project leadership. Jackson spent 20 years in the design and construction industry and served as President of Design/Build Services Inc. before becoming a leading educator of Design-Build at Cal Poly (1998-2013) and the University of Denver (2013-2022). Jackson was honored with DBIA’s prestigious Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award and recognized as a DBIA Fellow by the Institute in 2018. She’s also the author of Design-Build Essentials.

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02/25/2027 at 11:00 AM (EST)   |  21 hours
02/25/2027 at 11:00 AM (EST)   |  21 hours 8:00 AM - 5:00PM Local Time
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Certificate - Leadership Building Block - Communication
8.00 CEH credits  |  Certificate available
8.00 CEH credits  |  Certificate available