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Kent Jonasen

Kent Jonasen

CEO and co-founder of Leadership Pipeline Institute; co-author of The Leadership Pipeline (3rd edition) and author of The Specialist Pipeline

Jun 3, 2026

Smarter by Design

Smarter by Design

Why Every AEC Firm Needs a Leadership and Specialist Pipeline | Kent Jonasen of the Leadership Pipeline Institute

Jun 3 · 1h 42m

Christopher ParsonsHOST
26:36
I'm wondering if you have a similar seed for the idea for the specialist pipeline.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:41
Yeah.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:42
That's an equally terrible experience.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:44
Yeah, guess what? No.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:46
You know what? 2004, I get exposed to the leadership pipeline group.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:51
We get excited.
Kent Jonasen
Kent JonasenGUEST
26:52
We do our work together with, uh, one of the co-authors at that time, and, um, everything is ready to go to executive decision in 2005.

13 MINS LATER

Christopher ParsonsHOST
40:20
Mm-hmm.

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