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Zweig Group will name 2015 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership honoree at September conference; award pays tribute to Mark Zweig’s mentor. The leaders who have what it takes
By ANDREA BENNETT Managing Editor
I n addition to naming the Hot Firm List, the Best Firms to Work For, and the Marketing Excellence award winners, Zweig Group will also present its Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award during the Hot Firm and A/E Industry Awards Conference in Boston. Mark Zweig will name the 2015 winner and present him or her with the coveted bronze lion during the Courage in Leadership Luncheon on Thursday, September 3. Jerry Allen, former president and CEO of Carter & Bur- gess (later acquired by Jacobs ) in Fort Worth, Texas, was a mentor to Zweig, and the annual award rec- ognizes and A/E/P or environmental leader who has overcome obstacles to advance his or her firm to new levels of success and accomplishment. Zweig met Allen in 1985 when he worked for Carter & Burgess as its director of marketing and human resources. Allen taught him how to work in a larg- er organization and how leaders can advance their long-range agendas for change without alienating the people they had to go around – or through, or over – to do it, among many other things. Zweig still applies Allen’s lessons at his own companies
and seeks to share them with the firms he consults. “Jerry did the hard things that it took to make Cart- er & Burgess succeed,” Zweig says. Hard things like cutting costs, changing policies, and eliminating bureaucracy to enable the firm to make important management and acquisition deci- sions in days rather than months. Award nominees
See LEADERSHIP AWARD , page 12
THE ZWEIG LETTER AUGUST 17, 2015, ISSUE 1116
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