Ethics, Responsibility, and Leadership in Professional Practice

Date and Time

Thursday Apr 26, 2018
7:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT

Thursday, April 26, 2018

7:30 am - Registration and Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00 am - Program

Location

Sheraton Minneapolis West 12201 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55305 952-593-0000

Located east of Ridgedale Mall near the interchange of I-394 and Ridgedale Drive

Fees/Admission

$75 ACEC/MN members
$150 non-members
A three-day notice is required on all seminar cancelations for a full refund. No-shows will be charged the cost to attend.

Ethics, Responsibility, and Leadershi...

Description

Ethical and responsible practice and sound leadership are the goals of a “professional practice.” Attendees will learn how to attain these goals personally and as a firm. This course will bolster engineers’ understanding of their rights, as well as their responsibilities, under the MN Rules on professionalism and ethics, and expand understanding of how ethics in leadership impacts a firm and helps manage risk.

Learning Objectives:

Review of the MN rules of professionalism for engineers
Raise awareness of the impact/importance of leadership styles on work environment
Learn how effective ethical leadership manages and reduces risk/liability
Learn how to merge ethical leadership and professional practice

Presenter: Attorney Kristine A. Kubes is principal of Kubes Law Office, PLLC, serving design and construction professionals. Kristine helps clients strengthen their businesses. She concentrates her work on design defense/litigation and proactive counseling during the project. Services include defending clients against professional liability and general liability claims, contracts, addressing project-management, risk-management, and payment issues, prosecuting mechanic’s liens, and entity set-up. Integrated with her construction practice, Kristine is a qualified neutral who mediates construction and design disputes during and after the project. She is a frequent lecturer on construction, design, and ethics issues. Kristine serves as a Board Member of ACEC/MN. She serves in leadership of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law and served as a public member on the MN Board of AELSLAGID from 2006-2013, during which she served two terms as Board Chair from 2009-2011.