Peter O’Neil is the first leader in the history of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to arrive without an engineering background. Some may assume that means he was brought in to lead an organizational turnaround.“I don’t consider myself a turnaround guy,” O’Neil said. “I consider myself a next-idea, next-iteration guy.”ASCE’s board, O’Neil said, wasn’t looking for a repair job. The organization, which includes 250 staff, a $62 million consolidated budget and roughly 164,000 members, by his count, had just come off a long run of tenured, technically credentialed leadership. What the board wanted, he said, was velocity. They wanted a leader who could move the… Read More