Culture, Strategy, and Shared Success: RS&H’s Lisa Robert on Employee Ownership
Description
In this episode of ACEC’s Engineering Influence podcast, RS&H CEO Lisa Robert offers an in-depth look at the firm’s expanding journey into employee ownership and how it’s reshaping every corner of the organization. Robert explains why broadening participation through all-associate stock offerings has become a powerful cultural engine—strengthening retention, enhancing recruitment, and creating a deeper sense of shared purpose across teams. By giving employees a true stake in the company’s future, RS&H is fostering a more entrepreneurial, engaged, and client-focused workforce.
She also provides an inside perspective on RS&H’s 2030 “Amplify” strategy, a long-range plan designed to position the firm for resilient, sustainable growth. Robert highlights the strategy’s central pillars, including an intensified focus on the firm’s core strengths in transportation and aviation, expanded innovation capacity, and long-term value creation for clients and communities.
Throughout the conversation, she illustrates how employee ownership integrates seamlessly into this vision—fueling accountability, empowering decision-making, and reinforcing the firm’s commitment to lasting community impact.
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