FMI Built-In Podcast

Inside FMI's First 'Energy & Power Overview'

Roughly $1 trillion of investment is headed into U.S. energy and power over the next five years. Whether the industry can build it is the harder question: transformer lea

Your Fleet Is a Capital Decision, Not a Maintenance Department

For a heavy civil contractor, the fleet is often the single biggest capital position on the balance sheet. So why does the person who runs it usually hear the strategy af

Why Culture Is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

What if your organization's greatest competitive advantage isn't your strategy, technology or market position, but your culture? In this episode of Built In, FMI Consult

Scaling with Purpose: Preserving Culture While Driving Growth

What does it take to grow a business while staying true to the values and culture that made it successful in the first place? In this episode of Built In, FMI Consulting

Nate Koetje on the Field-First Operating Philosophy Behind Feyen Zylstra

In this episode of FMI's Built In Podcast, FMI Consulting President Scott Winstead sits down with Nate Koetje, CEO of Feyen Zylstra. Feyen Zylstra is a 600-person commerc

Building an Ownership Culture: The Emery Sapp & Sons Growth Story

What does it take to grow a construction company from $27M to over $1.5 billion — without losing your culture along the way? In this episode, Scott Winstead sits down wit

Operationally Elite: What Separates the Best Contractors from the Rest

What separates elite contractors from the rest? In this episode of Built-In, Scott Winstead sits down with FMI Partner Scott Kimpland to unpack the fundamentals behind o

FMI’s 2026 Engineering and Construction Economic Overview with Jay Bowman

In this episode of FMI’s Built-In Podcast, host Scott Winstead welcomes back Jay Bowman, senior partner and head of FMI’s market research practice, for a grounded and str

2026 M&A Outlook for the Built Environment

The FMI Built-In Podcast is back for season 4! FMI Capital Advisors Managing Director Alex Miller joins FMI Consulting President Scott Winstead to talk about themes driv

Best Insights from Our 2025 Guests

As 2025 wraps up, we're revisiting the standout insights that shaped this year’s conversations about leading and growing in the built environment. From turning talent str

Steena Chandler on Turning Talent Strategy into a Business Imperative

In this episode of Built-In, host Scott Winstead sits down with Steena Chandler, FMI Partner and leader of the firm’s Leadership and Organizational Development practice.

Building An Enduring Organization – Leadership Lessons from Fortis Construction

What does it take to scale a $3 billion construction company without losing its soul? In this episode, FMI Consulting President Scott Winstead sits down with Rob Fallow,

Creating Strategies to Win in Today's Construction Environment

In our next episode, Scott Winstead interviews Brian Skipper, corporate director of project development at Hensel Phelps, about navigating the changing construction lands

Why Project Management Still Fails and What to Do

Operational excellence doesn’t happen by accident. Yet in today’s construction environment, many firms continue to leave it up to chance. That’s one of the central takeaw

Leading Breakthroughs - Strategy, Resistance & the Real Work of Driving Change

In our latest podcast, host Scott Winstead talks with Bob Uhler, former CEO and chairman of MWH Global, and Garry Sanderson, former MWH executive and author of "The Chang

From Cap Tables to the C-Suite: Cracking the Succession Equation

Succession planning isn’t just about ownership or leadership — it’s about aligning both. In this episode, Jake Appelman and Matt Godwin of FMI sit down with host Scott W

Built to Last & Wired for Growth - Strategy, Culture and Innovation at Interstates

"Leaders were really the biggest constraint we had to reach our potential," Scott Peterson, CEO of Interstates tells FMI's Scott Winstead in this episode of the FMI Built

Chris Stricklin on Fostering Career Pathways in the Construction Industry

After retiring from the Air Force, Chris Stricklin found his calling as founding president of Dunn University, a division of the Dunn Family of Businesses. Dunn Universi

Ed Kutschke on Staying Ahead in a Competitive Construction Market

In this episode of the FMI Built-In Podcast, Scott Winstead sits down with Ed Kutschke, executive vice president at Aldridge Electric, to explore how the company has stay

FMI’s 2025 Engineering and Construction Economic Overview with Jay Bowman

The built environment is entering a transformative era. Connecting the dots between evolving trends, market forecasts and what they mean for your business is crucial in