Engineering Leadership Accelerator™

All Paths Lead to Stronger Leaders.

Most AEC firms invest in their engineers’ technical skills — and then wonder why those same engineers struggle when they’re handed a team to lead.

Leadership isn’t a personality trait. It’s a skillset. And like any skill, it has to be taught, practiced, and reinforced over time.

That’s what the Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ (ELA) was built to do. EMI’s proven leadership curriculum was designed specifically for engineers and technical professionals — and it’s available in three formats based on the size of your team and the scope of your goals.

Stop Losing Talent to Leadership Gaps

Turn Team Friction Into Project Performance

Develop the Leaders Clients Come Back For

Practical leadership programs designed for AEC professionals, by AEC professionals.

For individuals and firms
with less than 20 PMs

Self-Paced Leadership Accelerator

A fast-track, on-demand program for individual contributors and aspiring leaders who want structured leadership development on their own schedule — without stepping away from billable work.

Curriculum (5 PDHs)

Goal Setting, Decision Making & Mentoring
Developing Effective Communication Skills & dealing with Difficult People
Building Expertise, Mastering Public Speaking & Leading in Diverse & Remote Environments
Time Management & Maximizing Productivity
How to Network and Build Relationships & Introductions to Negotiating

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For firms
with 20-49 PMs

Company-Only Leadership Program

A structured, cohort-based delivery of the ELA curriculum — designed for firms that want consistent leadership language and stronger performance across a defined group of managers and team leads.

Structure (7.5 PDHs)

Company-only live cohorts for firms with 20+ PMs
Same curriculum as the self-paced ELA Program, with guided discussions that enrich learning
Spaced repetition over 3 months to improve retention and avoid bootcamp-style overload
Small cohort size to facilitate interactions that build peer relationships
Applied assignments to unlock transfer of learning to the job

For firms
with 50 or more PMs

Custom Leadership Development Program

A strategic, custom solution for firms seeking organization-wide consistency and a dynamic recruiting and retention tool.

Benefits

Customized Due Diligence: Initial survey and dialogue to identify your firm’s specific management gaps
Full custom design and delivery of curriculum tailored to your organizational needs
AEC PM Behaviors Assessment to personalize the training to each employees needs and outline a path toward long-term growth.
Reinforcement and skill transfer phases built-in for lasting knowledge application
PDHs for your PMs

How Our Approach Works

All of EMI’s leadership programs are built on the same proven Engineering Leadership Accelerator^TM curriculum — then delivered in the format that fits your team best.

Proven Leadership Framework

Our core Engineering Leadership Accelerator (ELA) curriculum is built specifically for engineers and technical professionals and serves as the foundation across all program formats.

Applied Leadership Learning

Participants engage in live or self-paced modules that embed leadership skills into everyday work with real assignments, reflection tools, and practical frameworks.

Reinforcement & Impact Measurement

Leadership change isn’t one-and-done. We provide reinforcement tools and performance checkpoints to help translate learning into on-the-job results.

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As we promoted more engineers into management roles, we continued to invest in internal mentoring while looking for ways to strengthen that support with external development.

What made the difference with EMI was the structure and relevance. The content is built for engineering teams, and the facilitated format created a more consistent, shared experience compared to past self-paced efforts.

We’ve seen stronger engagement and more confident managers as a result. It’s been a valuable complement to our internal development strategy.

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Eric Sweet, PE, CCP, LEED AP

Principal | Senior Electrical Engineer

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Following a comprehensive internal training needs assessment, I partnered with Anthony Fasano and the team at EMI to design and deliver a custom leadership development pilot program. EMI created six focused modules based on the top ‘hot topics’ identified through the assessment, and the sessions—delivered in fall 2025 to our senior project delivery leaders—provided practical, immediately applicable leadership tools. I am happy to say participant feedback was very positive, and plans are in the works to offer the program again in 2026 and expand its impact to broader cohorts of project managers.

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Sue Moynihan

Senior Training & Development Specialist

What participants are saying:

This course helped me to understand difference between “telling people what to do” vs. helping them solve problems and grow independently, how to manage conflict without creating tension, and how to motivate team members with different communication styles.

The "Engineering Leadership Accelerator - People Leadership Course" helped me articulate insights about leadership that I had long sensed but hadn't yet put into words. By taking this course, I was able to recognize leadership qualities I had but didn't realize were signs of leadership. Now that EMI has helped me articulate these insights, I am now able to develop these qualities further.

i think one of my biggest take away was, even though it was a very small part of the course, was the importance of delegation in making you a better leader. it is something that i struggle greatly with.