Full Name: Cinda Bond

Company: OrgMetrics LLC

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (925) 484-4007

Email: cindabond@orgmet.com

Website: http://www.orgmet.com/

Full Name: Paul Crotty

Company: Crew Consulting Group

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: TX

Business: (805) 701-4599

Mobile: (805) 701-4599

Email: paul@crewconsultinggroup.com

Website: https://crewconsultinggroup.com/

Bio: Paul Crotty is the founder of Crew Consulting Group. For over 20 years he was a part of the Ventura Consulting Group team where he served as a Master Level partnering facilitator. He has worked with hundreds of project teams on large and complex construction projects, both nationally and internationally. Having worked with almost every type of delivery method (i.e. design-build, CMGC, P3, IPD, etc.), with almost every construction type, (heavy civil, vertical, health care, space, military, renewable, etc.), Mr. Crotty brings a vast array of experience of building successful teams on billions of dollars worth of construction projects.

Superpower: Mr. Crotty specializes in designing and facilitating a collaborative partnering process on programs and projects that are of such size, complexity, and importance that if the team is not aligned and working effectively together, the risk of project success is at stake. While formal partnering is best implemented early, he is also brought in to lead project-resets on challenged projects.

Full Name: Sue Dyer

Company: IPI Founder

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (925) 449-8300

Mobile: (510) 504-5877

Email: suedyer@orgmet.com

Website: https://orgmet.com/

Bio: Sue Dyer founded OrgMetrics, LLC in 1986 as a firm dedicated to helping construction organizations and project teams develop collaborative cultures. Sue and her team have worked with over 4,000 construction teams and have seen what works and does not work in real-life! Based on this work, she created the Structured Collaborative Partnering system. Sue is the host of the Construction Dream Team podcast, which focuses on the people side of construction. Sue is also the founder of the International Partnering Institute. In the early 1980’s Sue became the first woman in the U.S. to head up a major collective bargaining unit for the construction industry and negotiated with all of the construction crafts. She is author of several books on construction partnering.

Superpower: Sue Dyer’s life work is to help the construction industry become more collaborative. Sue founded OrgMetrics, LLC in 1986 as a firm dedicated to helping construction organizations and project teams develop collaborative cultures. She turned over the reins to Rob Reaugh in 2021 and now she supports Rob and the OrgMetrics team, still facilitating for selected projects and organizations. The OrgMetrics team has led partnering with over 4,000 construction teams and has seen what works and does not work in real-life! Sue is the founder of the International Partnering Institute and volunteers a great deal to help IPI members know how to Deliver Partnering That Works! Sue was part of the San Francisco International Airport leadership team that developed what is today, Progressive Design Build. Sue is author of the #2 Wall Street Journal best-selling book “The Trusted Leader: Use the Partnering Approach to Become the Trusted Leader People Want to Follow”. She is also author of Partner Your Project, and The Trusted Leader Journal”, along with hundreds of industry articles. Sue has served as the Executive Director for seven different construction trade organizations, including United Contractors Association, and was the first woman to head a construction collective bargaining group back in the early 1980s.

Full Name: Jim Eisenhart

Company: Ventura Consulting Group

IPI Certification: Master Level IPI (MIPI) 800+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (805) 650-8040

Email: jim@venturaconsulting.com

Website: https://resetpartnering.com/

Full Name: Neal Flesner

Company: Velo Group

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (310) 400-6521

Mobile: (310) 597-0403

Email: neal@velogroup.com

Website: https://www.velogroup.com/

Bio: One of the most active construction Partnering facilitators in the world, I am passionate about forming collaborative partnerships leading to a remarkable project experience for all stakeholders. With a strong reputation for achieving team success no matter the project delivery method, number of parties involved, or challenges presented, I aim to deliver value through proven Partnering strategies, including creating project-specific Partnering plans, setting common measurable goals and instilling open communication techniques among team members. A lifelong learner driven by a curiosity for developing solutions to complex challenges, my journey as a Construction Partnering Facilitator began more than 17 years ago. I enjoy facilitating project teams primarily because of the results my clients obtain by focusing on developing collaborative relationships through open and honest dialogues. Proficient at problem solving and communication, my no-nonsense, pragmatic approach is recognized by clients worldwide.

I have extensive experience facilitating Partnering sessions on nearly every type of construction project—from large scale government-funded projects to hospitals, highways, airports, railways, water treatment plants and more. I work with managers, executives and field personnel at all levels of the project team, including project owners, construction companies, architecture and engineering firms, as well as third-party entities critical to the project’s success. Clients include LA Metro, Seattle Sound Transit, NAVFAC, USACE, Caltrans, NDOT and many more.

Every team, project and challenge are different, and that is what excites me most. I believe that a goal-driven vision, and the desire to move forward with velocity will create extraordinary results. Exemplifying the value my Partnering strategies provide, projects using my Partnering approach have won numerous industry awards garnering recognition for the project team.

Full Name: Rob Reaugh

Company: OrgMetrics LLC

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (925) 449-8300

Mobile: (925) 487-2404

Email: robreaugh@orgmet.com

Website: http://www.orgmet.com/

Bio: Rob Reaugh, President and professional partnering facilitator for OrgMetrics LLC. Rob has a background in mediation, training and keynote speaking in the field of construction conflict prevention and resolution. He joined OrgMetrics team in 2012, has facilitated more than 450 partnering sessions. He currently works with BART, Caltrans, San Jose International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and others and serves as the partnering facilitator for the City and County of San Francisco Collaborative Partnering Steering Committee. He holds a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution.

Full Name: Eric Sanderson

Company: Red Rocks Advisors, LLC.

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: AZ

Business: (800) 211-7944

Mobile: (970)-215-6340

Email: ejs@redrocksadvisors.com

Website: https://redrocksadvisors.com/

Bio: Eric Sanderson is Founder and President of Red Rocks Advisors, LLC. Mr. Sanderson provides consulting and facilitation services to engineering and construction organizations and owners in the utility and infrastructure sectors of the construction industry. Services provided include management consulting, project teambuilding, and partnering for public, commercial and utility infrastructure projects and programs. Mr. Sanderson is an IPI Certified Master Level Partnering Facilitator having conducted over 325 professional facilitations. With over 25 years of experience in the construction industry, he brings an understanding of both complex business strategy, and practical operations implementation.

Superpower:

• About 95% of the projects that I am involved in are in the water and wastewater sector. That gives me a unique understanding of the dynamics of building process facilities and the interrelationship of government entities and utilities. While I am not an engineer I also have a reasonable knowledge of how water and wastewater processing facilities work.

• I am very project focused end drive towards the tactical implementation of solutions that the partnering team identifies. I always try to push the team to be very specific about how they're going to implement partnering strategies.

• Having worked in construction in the past, I have a detailed understanding of how contractors operate, and what is important to them. This includes both their strengths and what they bring to the table that can be of benefit to owners, but also, occasionally their weaknesses and the internal challenges that they need to overcome to be successful.

• As exists in other sectors of the construction industry these days, I am heavily involved in progressive design build projects. This evolves the partnering model a little too focus on multiple goal sets. Early goals are focused on establishment of a design, cost model, and GMP. Later goals focus on efficient mobilization and coordination of construction activities, tie INS to any existing operations, and coordination of facility operations with construction operations. The final goals focus on startup, commissioning, staff training, and systems testing. These multiple goal sets all have different metrics, drivers of success, and Expected outcomes.

Full Name: Eileen T. Sien

Company: Velo Group

IPI Certifications: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions, Certified Project Leader

State: MD

Business: (301) 503-5951

Mobile: (301) 503-5951

Email: eileen@velogroup.com

Website: https://www.velogroup.com/

Bio: Eileen Sien has an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. With over 24 years of experience both coordinating and managing large transportation projects in the State of Maryland Eileen is a skilled communicator who quickly builds strong and effective relationships among various stakeholders. She is often tasked with achieving consensus on potentially difficult issues. Her technical expertise and dynamic and inclusive approach to solving technical challenges have built her reputation for quality design and client-oriented service and are key to developing a partnering culture. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and an IPI Certified Facilitator.

Full Name: William S. Spragins

Company: Bill Spragins Consulting LLC

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (303) 882-0846

Mobile: (303) 882-0846

Email: bill@spragins.net

Website: https://spragins.net/

Bio: Bill initially got involved with the partnering movement in the early 1990s as Practice Leader for Partnering at FMI Corporation, a management consulting organization that works exclusively within the design & construction industry. After working with some of the early pioneers of partnering (Chuck Cowan and Tom Warne at the time with the Arizona DOT), Bill & FMI helped push partnering out across the industry nationally with as many as 12-15 facilitators involved. By 2000 Bill, a smaller FMI core group, and their most committed clients arrived on a partnering model that is similar to the current IPI model. By the time Bill took on the partnering practice under his own shop from FMI in 2019, FMI consultants had facilitated partnering on over 1,400 projects with Bill having been personally involved with over 400. In addition to working with CALTRANS in some of their early experiences with partnering, Bill has assisted numerous organizations in launching their partnering programs, including Arizona DOT, Master Builders Construction & Housing Authority (Australia), New York City DEP, the Texas DOT, and the US Army Materiel Command (Rock Island) and other US Army commands involved with major defense contracts. While he facilitates partnering on projects of all sizes, he has developed a particular expertise on mega projects and stressed turnaround projects.

Full Name: Jon Swartzentruber

Company: Paradyne Consulting Works LLC

IPI Certification: Master Level (MIPI) 250+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (858) 442-4295

Email: jswartzentruber@paradyneconsulting.com

Website: https://www.paradyneconsulting.com/

Bio: Jon Swartzentruber joined Paradyne Consulting Works as Managing Partner in 2017 after serving as Vice President of Leadership Development at Kiewit Corporation where for twelve years he led the company’s client partnering and talent development efforts. For over twenty years, Jon has helped project teams on complex projects avoid disputes by building uncommon levels of teamwork, trust, and transparency. The 100+ projects he has worked on include NHL’s Seattle Center, US Embassies and Consulates in the Far East, Nevada DOT’s Spaghetti Bowl Express, and the Army Corps’ massive Everglades Restoration. In 2020, Jon was recognized by the Army Corp of Engineers’ Chief of Staff for his partnering work on their projects. Earlier in his career, Jon flew commercial airliners, managed the Rockefeller family’s private jet fleet, and founded two successful construction companies.

Full Name: Andy Fulton

Company: Construction Accelerator, LLC

IPI Certification: Senior IPI Facilitator

State: CA

Business: (248) 872-9208

Mobile: (248) 872-9248

Email: andy@constructionaccelerator.com

Website: https://constructionacceleratortm.com/

Bio: In addition to having facilitated 200+ Alignment Partnering sessions in all methods of project delivery (including Progressive DB, Design Build, CMGC, Design-Bid-Build and Integrated Project Delivery), he has trained and coached many teams in Lean principles and tools including the Last Planner® System (pull planning), Target Value Design, Root Cause Analysis, Value Stream Mapping, Rapid Improvement (Kaizen) Events. His passion is aligning teams to help them exceed their own expectations and weaving together various aspects of Lean Construction with Alignment Partnering to collaboratively solve problems.

He also co-creates 3-9 minute videos for Construction Accelerator® (www.ConstructionAccelerator.com), an online training tool that makes Learning and Doing simple for over 50 Lean topics and aims to make design and construction more less stressful and more rewarding.

Lean Construction Institute – Certified Practitioner Construction (LCI-CPC), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Engineer (PE)

Superpower: Combining curiosity with humility. I approach each team with genuine questions rather than predetermined solutions, creating space for authentic discovery and helps uncover hidden challenges and opportunities. By balancing thoughtful inquiry with the humble recognition that the best answers often come from within the team itself, I help construction professionals translate their collective wisdom into actionable improvements. This approach transforms partnering sessions from formulaic exercises into collaborative experiences where lasting team trust is naturally enhanced.

Full Name: Gregory Grabowski

Company: GCC & Associates LLC

IPI Certification: Senior Level Partnering Facilitator (SIPI)

State: CA

Business: (949) 636-0461

Mobile: (949) 636-0461

Email: gregory@gcc-llc.com

Website: https://gcc-llc.com/

Bio: Gregory brings 31 years of architectural, engineering, design, and operational leadership experience to formal partnering, bringing owners, architect-engineer teams, and constructors together to build cost effective facilities. With successful experience leading both Top Secret DOD and commercial design and construction programs as a deputy director of design operations, director of construction, operations, engineering and construction program management, and US Navy Surface Warfare Officer, Gregory has led interdisciplinary design and construction teams on four continents.

He is currently engaged on mega-projects including the new $2B Los Angeles County Mental Health Treatment Center and the $1.8B Giant Magellan Telescope project to be built on the Las Campanas summit in Chile, as well as healthcare, aerospace, and manufacturing projects currently underway in Southern California.

A licensed mechanical engineer in both California and Alaska, Gregory also holds a California B-General Contractor’s license, as well as various construction related certifications including LEED® AP and CCM.

Full Name: Sydne Jacques

Company: Next Level Leadership

IPI Certification: CEO, Partnering Facilitator (SIPI) 500+ Sessions

State: UT

Business: (801) 358-8923

Email: sydne@ja-today.com

Website: https://www.sydnespeaks.com/partnering

Bio: Sydne Jacques is an engineer turned CEO, speaker and facilitator. Often referred to as the “the engineer with a personality,” Sydne has built an award-winning company with clients around the world. She has trained over 20,000 individuals and has facilitated Partnering for more than 500 different teams. Sydne is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Utah AGC. In her spare time she serves on the National Advisory Committee for the College of Engineering at BYU and on the board of directors for the non-profit Working Moms Connections. Sydne is married to a very patient husband, is the proud mother of four awesome kids and is a terrible golfer.

Full Name: Leonard Steinberg

Company: Creative Alliance Group L.L.C.

IPI Certification: Certified Partnering Facilitator (SIPI) 100+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (760) 363-5505

Mobile: (760) 445-7835

Email: leonard@creativealliancegroup.com

Website: https://creativealliancegroup.com/

Full Name: Meg Winch

Company: Communication Resources Northwest, LLC

IPI Certification: Senior Level (100+ Sessions)

State: WA

Business: (425) 316-8300

Mobile: (425) 260-7354

Email: MegW@communication-resources.com

Website: www.communication-resources.com

Bio: Meg Winch, President of Communication Resources Northwest, leads a team of 12 trainers and facilitators that works internationally to support the AEC industry. Meg has facilitated more than 150 partnering sessions since 1994 for government, universities, school districts, and foundations. She was the lead facilitator for the US Air Force Chapel, most of WSDOT’s fish barrier removal projects, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Disney World Fantasyland, Sprint World Headquarters, the Harrisburg Federal Courthouse, and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, among many others. She has provided dozens of partnering processes for NAVFAC, US Courts, US Air Force, and USACE. Meg is also a trained mediator, curriculum designer, and pursuit strategist. She and her team support design, construction, and owner teams throughout the lifecycle of project delivery. She holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MS from Purdue University, Lean certifications from the IISE and AGC, and certification in 360o assessments from the CCL.

Full Name: Kurt Dettman

Company: Constructive Dispute Resolutions

IPI Certification: (PIPI) 25+ Sessions

State: MA

Business: (781) 749-2990

Mobile: (781) 985-2944

Email: kdettman@c-adr.com

Website: www.constructiondisputes-cdrs.com/

Full Name: Paul LoNigro

Company: GCC LLC

IPI Certification: (PIPI) 25+ Sessions

State: CA

Business: (714) 655-3107

Email: paul@gcc-llc.com

Website: https://gcc-llc.com/

Full Name: Mark Moody

Company: Velo Group

IPI Certification: (PIPI) 25+ Sessions

Business: (562)335-2312

Email: mark@velogroup.com

Website: https://www.velogroup.com/

Bio: A Construction Partnering Facilitator with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, Mark K. Moody is a lifelong learner of the collaborative Partnering approach. Throughout his professional career, Mark has worked with teams of all sizes to set common goals, establish accountability and foster dispute resolution practices that optimize project efficiencies and achieve results.

Mark’s background as a business executive, United States Air Force veteran and partnering facilitator, gives him a broad perspective of the issues teams face. His proven track record of executing mission-driven projects in a variety of markets, as well as a collaborative and professional approach combined with his creative and jovial demeanor, provides the teams Mark facilitates with a fresh point of view.

As a Partnering Facilitator for VELO Group, Mark works alongside teams to drive positive results for all stakeholders. What Mark likes most about his work is the diversity of projects, challenges and people. Some of the recent partnering projects Mark has helped facilitate at Velo Group were for California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), LA Metro, United States Navy, National Department of Transportation (NDOT) and the U.S. National Park Service.

Prior to his career in Construction Partnering, Mark was Chief Strategy Officer for New Chapter Vitamins (subsidiary of Procter and Gamble). In this position, his leadership was instrumental to the major supplement company achieving organic, non-GMO, and B Corp certifications. He also drove profitable sustainability projects including a push toward Regenerative Organic Certification. Both certifications were industry firsts. Further, Mark consistently delivered revenue, led elite teams and served as the face of the brand.

During Mark’s military career serving in the U.S. Space Force program, he worked with teams across all levels of the Department of Defense. While executing planning, programming, and budgeting of the $2.5-billion Delta II Space Launch Vehicle Acquisition Program, he defended the program’s budget to the highest commands of the Department of Defense. He also performed cost and schedule performance measurement of all contracts including validation, analysis, documentation and reporting. Further, he monitored, negotiated and presented results of contractor’s performance incentive determination proceedings, and designed and led training to enhance cost and schedule performance measurement skills of program personnel, significantly improving overall contract management. Additionally, Mark served as a key member of an award-winning reengineering team, which reduced contract change process time by 50%. Finally, Mark led a joint Air Force - Contractor team that created the first-ever life-cycle cost estimate for its $1.1B Medium Launch Vehicle III Acquisition Program.

In his free time, Mark enjoys the outdoors and spends as much time as possible cheering on his sons in their various sporting endeavors.