Terry Kish, Former CCA Director/Industry Icon

7:30 am | Awards Breakfast

For over 33 years Terry was the Director of Safety and Workforce Development for the Colorado Contractors Association (CCA) While at CCA, his overall responsibility was to provide the state-wide integration of human resource development programs for CCA members to maximize the return on their human resource assets through participation in Training, Apprenticeship, Safety and Loss Control programs.

 

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Terry also spent two years as a Training and Safety Manager in the electrical utility industry, and spent six years as the General Manager of Human Resources Development in the steel industry.  Since Terry’s retirement from CCA, he has consulted with CSU-Pueblo, Construction Associations and Construction Companies marketing and developing leadership and apprenticeship programs. Terry has a Masters Degree in Instruction and Training Technology, a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology. Terry has received many professional recognitions from the Governor of the State of Colorado, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, AGC of America, Mi Casa Women’s Resource Center, Adams County Workforce Development Board and was awarded the 2017 Colorado Contractors Association Pioneer Award.

 

Amy Powell
Well Works

10:30 am |Rethinking Stress:  Making Construction Fun Again

Amy Powell is the current owner and founder of Well Works, which has developed leadership, communication, and project team training programs custom-built for those in the construction industry. With over 20 years of construction experience, the majority of it as a PM for a Commercial GC, she noticed the need for more targeted training and information focused on our unique challenges and how to effectively lead our diverse construction teams. Tired of looking for the "right tools for the job," she decided to roll up her sleeves, collect her MEd in HR & Adult Education, and develop training programs focused on essential skills to equip fellow industry members to help be the best version of themselves in their current or future industry roles.

Aron Ralston,
Adventurer &
Subject of the Film, 127 Hours

11:30 am | Industry Luncheon
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Turning Adversity to Advantage

Aron Ralston's extraordinary story of survival after an 800-pound boulder trapped him in a remote Utah canyon captured global headlines in 2003. In his New York Times best seller, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the Oscar-nominated film, 127 Hours, and on stage, Ralston takes audiences vicariously through those six days without water, means of communication, or hope of escape, to the ecstatic moments when he freed himself by severing his own arm.

 

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Following a miraculous rescue spearheaded by his mom and with the aid of prosthetics he helped design, Aron returned to his outdoor passions, completing elite mountaineering projects which remain unrepeated even to this day. He has interviewed with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, and Jay Leno, and received standing ovations and industry-leading testimonials from over five hundred groups around the world. Attendees credit Ralston's story with encouraging them through disease, disability, and loss, even saving their lives from suicide and depression.

Aron's incredible triumph in the face of insurmountable odds inspires audiences to harness the power of their deepest motivations, relationships, and mindset to transform personal and professional "boulders" into their blessings. Today, Ralston continues to pursue high-altitude adventures, advocates for wilderness protection, and tries to keep up with his two spirited children, Leo and Elisabetta.