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Collaborative leadership: Anthony Morrocco President of GAI Consultants, an employee-owned planning, engineering, and environmental consulting firm that provides local expertise to worldwide clients.
By LIISA ANDREASSEN Correspondent
S ince 1958, GAI Consultants (Pittsburgh, PA) has transformed ideas into reality. As president, Morrocco leads this employee-owned company that delivers customized engineering, planning, and environmental expertise to energy, transportation, development, government, and industrial clients. “While we highly value in-person collaboration as it applies to real-time problem solving, our experience during the pandemic has shown that certain aspects of our business can run effectively with remote or hybrid work arrangements,” Morrocco says. A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY MORROCCO. The Zweig Letter: You joined GAI in 1989 as a project manager. What did you learn in that role that helps you most in your day-to-day responsibilities today? Anthony Morrocco: I’ve worked in many different facets of the business including land surveying, land development,
and project management. Since land development projects generally require more diverse services, I found myself managing projects that included other types of services including geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering, environmental science, etc. I learned a great deal about all GAI’s technical services and worked with staff from all over the company on a variety of project types. The multidisciplinary projects that I managed were complex and required expert technical and financial skills as well as client management. I served GAI’s diverse client base in the many markets that we serve and became a sales leader in the firm. This set the foundation for my career to proceed in a management direction. To this very day, I find the foundational knowledge and skill that I gained at GAI in project and business management to be an invaluable tool in my day-to-day responsibilities. I constantly draw on that knowledge to oversee all parts of GAI’s business.
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