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Head, Vogt, Morrison Lead GBA’s 2017-18 Board of Directors Slate GBA’s Nominating Committee has announced its slate of officers and directors for the May 1, 2017-April 30, 2018 fiscal year. GBA President-Elect Charles L. “Charlie” Head, P.E., P.G. (Sanborn, Head & Associ...
GBA and AEG Ink a Memorandum of Understanding The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) and the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding which establishes a foundation for collaboration and mutual support for both organizations...
President-Elect Charles Head Addresses Winter Leadership Conference Emphasizes the Future is Bright GBA President-Elect Charles L. Head, P.E., P.G. (Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.) addressed attendees of GBA’s 2017 Winter Leadership Conference, held on January 28, 2017 in Denver, Col...
Sign Up Now! Register your staff attend the Geoprofessional Business Association’s newest industry leading training and development program. GOLD: Geoprofessional Operational Leadership Development Providing advanced business leadership for the geoprofessional community The Geoprofessional Bus...
Top GBA Downloaded Resources in 2016 GBA provides hundreds of highly effective resources developed to satisfy the unique needs of geoprofessionals, giving members essential tools for achieving success. However, we also know that it can be overwhelming to sort through them all. So to help, we’ve c...
GBA has teamed up with the McMahon|Siegel Group, to provide a uniquely-GBA professional development program for emerging leaders and managers of geographic locations and business units. Only employees of GBA member firms will be able to participate in the Geoprofessional Operational Leadership Devel...
Effective Project Managers are key to the success of all geoprofessional businesses. GBA recognizes development of highly effective Project Managers requires training, experience, and mentorship in numerous areas. GBA has developed, with support of member-firm volunteers, a Project Man...
GBA Publishes New Monograph Chronicling a Member Firm’s Peer Review Experiences How valuable is Peer Review? GBA’s newest publication – GAI’s Peer Review Experience – illustrates the answer. The firm has undergone seven Peer Reviews since 1983, moving from a two-office organizati...
GBA’s 2016 Fall Conference Videos – Available Now! If you attended GBA’s 2016 Fall Conference you experienced a conference packed with dynamic, informative, and educational presentations by a variety of subject matter experts. If you didn’t attend, you still have a chance to ex...
Seattle, Washington, Mayor Edward B. Murray has proclaimed October 14, 2016 to be his city’s Geoprofessionals’ Day, because “the Geoprofessional Business Association highlights that the quality of our environment is a fundamental concern of our community; and [because] GBA emphasizes that effi...
Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA) Tailings Engineer-of-Record (EOR) Task Force published a Business Brief to inform and educate Member-Firms of the ever-increasing levels of risk associated with tailings-related work. The Task Force illustrated the risk by including recent tailings dam...
The newest GBA Business Brief — available only to members and free of charge – comprises the GBA Business Practices Committee’s 2015-16 Financial-Performance Survey report, covering key financial-performance issues surveyed firms reported. These include predistribution prof...
By Laura Reinbold, GBA President (Terracon) “Let’s Work Together. GBA and Geo-Institute are collaborating for our profession.” That was the message GBA President Laura Reinbold took to the first-ever Geo-Institute (G-I) Summit for Local Chapter Leaders a few weeks ago. Attending at t...
Leadership is a hot topic of late, with hundreds of writers providing do’s and don’ts for making it to the top. GBA looked into this issue decades ago, and leaders at the time came up with one, fundamental axiom for leadership development: Get involved in associations and societies. ...
Kurt R. Fraese, L.G. and Mark K. Kramer, P.E. have been appointed to the prestigious Council of Fellows of the Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA). The organization established the Council in 1975 to provide guidance for GBA’s direction and to pursue other activities its members de...