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Leadership starts at the top: Jef Forward on self-coaching, AI, and building better teams (opens the original)
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Greg Woleck talks with Jef Forward, founder, president, and owner of Forward Design Build Remodel in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about what it really takes to improve leadership from the top down. The conversation centers on self-awareness, vulnerability, and how Jef is using AI and DISC profiles to coach himself and his team in real time. Key topics In this episode, Jef explains why leadership development often fails when everyone except the owner gets training, and why change has to begin with the pe
The Most Under-Managed Profit Center in Your Business (opens the original)
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EPISODE SUMMARY If you pulled your last 10 change orders and sorted them into two piles — things you truly couldn't have known, and things the client added or you didn't nail down up front — which pile would be bigger? For most design-build firms, it's the second pile, and Greg opens this episode arguing that's not a field problem. It's a design and sales problem that showed up late. Greg is joined by Will Pritiken, founder of Aforma Design Studio, an embedded design practice built specifically
Winning the AI Search Game: How Remodelers Get Found (and Cited) by AI — with Thomas Harpointner (opens the original)
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If a homeowner asked an AI assistant, not Google, an actual AI assistant to find the best remodeler in the area, would your company even come up? Homeowners are increasingly skipping the search results page and just asking AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude for a recommendation — then calling one of the one or two names they get back. Your site can rank great on Google and still be invisible to that conversation. In this episode, host Greg Wallach talks with Thomas Harpointner, fou
JASON LANGKAMMERER — THE DESIGN (UN)CERTAINTY CONTINGENCY (opens the original)
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EPISODE SUMMARY Every design-build owner has lived this moment: an early budget gets a client excited, the design gets refined, and the real estimate lands 20–30% higher. Jason Langkammerer, President of AT6 Architecture + Design Build in the San Francisco Bay Area, walks through the system his firm built to close that gap — the “Design (Un)certainty Contingency.” Borrowed from the commercial construction “cone of uncertainty” and sparked by a conversation with Ian Schwandt of TDS Design Build,
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