BUILD Construction and Engineering Awards 2025 Best International Engineering Leadership & Development Partner 2025 – Australia Whether working as an engineer, a consultant, a financial service or legal professional, an accountant, or any role requiring rational thinking, the ability to influence, motivate, and communicate with others is essential, though not always a natural strength. This gap can contribute to a lack of confidence in leading or may result in defaulting to the technical and tactical, rather than on people and strategy. Engineering Leaders is a leading company striving to engineer leaders, augmenting technical skills with the people skills necessary to create unrivalled leadership capabilities. We heard more below from Cameron Smith, Global CEO and Managing Director, as the company is named in the Construction and Engineering Awards 2025. Engineering Leaders was born in 2018, when Cameron Smith left his role as Head of Facilitation for the APAC region of a global sales and leadership consultancy. Having served as an electrical power systems engineer for more than two decades and with significant leadership experience up to and including a CEO role, Cameron was passionate about developing analytical and technical solutions that grow professionals to become better communicators, influencers, and leaders. Within the APAC region, Engineering Leaders has worked with a range of engineering and technical businesses, all looking to enhance their leadership capability, improve team performance or business culture, or to assist in sales growth where these skills are not well developed. Its clients include Deloitte China, Power Systems Consultants, BlueScope, Carel, NHP, Pultron Composites, and Hitachi. In 2023, an opportunity presented itself to build the business into the Northern Hemisphere. Tim Miles, fellow engineer and passionate leadership developer, partnered with Cameron to provide similar services in the Northern Hemisphere. Expanded operations commenced in 2024, with Primo Marine – a Rotterdam-headquartered, expert submarine cable consultancy – as its first European client. Today, Engineering Leaders works closely with clients across the engineering and construction sectors to develop and deliver training that is designed and contextualised specifically for their context. The company is particularly focused on businesses in these sectors that are involved with the Energy Transition, where attracting and retaining high quality resources is essential. “We take pride in designing and delivering programmes by engineers, for engineers,” Cameron told us. “We understand the challenges of leading technical teams, and with transitioning from technical roles to leadership roles. By focusing on the people skills – and emotional intelligence – required to lead others, Engineering Leaders can help to bridge the leadership gap that exists in technical or analytical professionals.” Engineering Leaders bridges this gap by taking a five-step approach when working with clients that ensures all needs are identified and addressed, all parties understand their role in creating successful outcomes, and that lasting behavioural change is achieved. Divided into a day in the life, pre-program preparation, leader involvement, program delivery, and make it stick, this approach provides a much deeper understanding of what each client wants, enabling Engineering Leaders to deliver superior services, without compromise. The company has aided countless clients since its inception, but a moment of great pride came in the work done with a global engineering company over a three-year period. What began as an enquiry about a sales training programme for engineers soon developed into a partnership that saw Engineering Leaders working at all levels of the organisation, across three global regions, to understand and improve team performance. The resulting ‘Creating Cohesive Teams’ programme – based upon Patrick Lencioni’s The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team framework – was implemented over a period of time with a senior leadership team. Using a Team Assessment tool, the programme led to a 37% average improvement in team cohesion across all dysfunction areas. A specific area, mastering productive conflict, saw a 43% improvement, indicating stronger, healthier communication, and conflict resolution among leaders. Looking ahead, 2025 promises to be an exciting year for Engineering Leaders – in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. The company is pitching its capabilities for major contracts in the utility and energy asset construction and maintenance sectors to deliver emerging leader programmes made specifically for engineers. The team also eagerly awaits news on the award of contracts to help major utilities and service providers develop high performance cultures that improve efficiency and aid the attraction and retention of high calibre team members. “In addition to our business, we also now have the ability to build learning academies for our clients, as a result of our partnership with Primo Marine,” Cameron told us. “We are looking forward to the next phase of the Primo Academy, which will include onboarding, digitising technical training programmes developed by Primo’s experts, and continuing to add to their people skills library with Engineering Leaders-designed content.” Company: Cameron Smith Web Address: www.engineeringleaders.net
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