DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FOR AN INDIVIDUAL

LAURA COOLEY Consultant DEVELOPINGCONSTRUCTIONLEADERS.COM

Laura Cooley is an experienced leader, coach, and manager of small and large, multi-stakeholder groups and teams focused on leadership, strategy, operational excellence, learning and development. She draws from 25 years of diverse opportunities as an employee, consultant, and leader in global and national AEC firms and organizations. Cooley is currently a consultant, facilitator, executive coach, speaker/trainer, Founder of Developing Construction Leaders, and member of the Board of Directors for the Construction Institute. Cooley emphasizes the interaction of strategy, process, results, and people. She seeks to spark insight - looking for that moment when each person finds something they make their own so they can apply it the very next day.

Her past lives include: Associate Vice President & Director of Training and Development for Limbach; Gilbane Building Company Senior Manager of Operational Excellence, leading Operational Excellence and Learning & Development for the New York Region; Director of Performance Excellence for Bovis Lend Lease facilitating partnering, learning, and project risk mitigation for the Northeast, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Cooley holds a BS of Industrial Engineering and has been an examiner for the Tennessee Center for Performance ExcellenceBaldrige Award; an ISO 9000 auditor; a QualTec SixSigma Instructor for Facilitator Skills, Team Leaders and Project Success Planning; and holds additional certifications as a Six Sigma Green Belt, Scrum Master and DDI Course Instructor.

“ Being a Construction Institute Board member is important to me because our industry can only be successful only when there is multidiscipline collaboration .”

Membership Milestones

35 Years

Fuss & O’Neill, Inc

30 Years

Hoffmann Architects + Engineers

Macri Associates, Inc

25 Years

Central CT State University/Construction Management Program

Professional Construction Services, Inc

20 Years

HRP Associates, Inc

IMTL-Independent Materials Testing Labs, Inc

Robinson + Cole

Siemens Industry, Inc.

Shipman & Goodwin, LLP

15 Years

ESPN

Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors, Inc

10 Years

Interscape Commercial Environments

We would also like to extend an Honorable Mention to our 5 year members

City of Hartford - Division of Licenses & Inspection

Connecticut Housing Finance Authority

Dicin Electric Co., Inc

Lion’s Head Cost Consultants, Inc

Pat Munger Construction Co. Inc