The Beck Group Creates A Space for Women in Leadership: Beck’s Gals, Guns & Goals

On any typical Thursday morning, you’ll find many women of Tampa Bay focused and hard at work in their various roles and positions throughout the region. However, on this Thursday in particular, a group of 20 women in leadership from around the area, gathered together to join the ladies of The Beck Group for a morning of fun, fellowship and sporting clay shooting.

At Beck’s Gals, Guns and Goals event, hosted by Caroline Vostrejs of The Beck Group, a group of women, including our very own Ariana Greene, Envision’s Director of Operations, had the opportunity to come together to learn more about the sport of clay shooting. Gals, Guns and Goals was held at Tampa Bay Sporting Clays, where the women in attendance received hands on demonstration and group instruction, all while fostering new relationships.

Its opportunities like these that constantly contribute to the empowerment of women in leadership, by creating a space of unity and collaboration outside of the traditional office setting.

October 12, 2018, marked a proud day for the Beck | Envision team and our proteges as we shifted into the next phase for our first conjoined Mentorship Protege Program (MPP) class.

After this year’s graduation of the 2018 MPP class, the Beck | Envision team immediately went into the Active Mentorship phase of the program.

The Active Mentorship phase of MPP is where we begin to implement the various things we’ve learned from our “big brother”, The Beck Group, and dig beneath the surfaces of our proteges’ businesses to discover areas of immediate needs. Because at Envision we are still considered the “little fish in a big pond” in a lot of cases, the ability we have in relating with our proteges through our experiences produces something very unique; especially when our guidance is coupled with their shortcomings.

Through our approach to building local MBEs, we are discovering that the ability to relate goes a long way; in fact, it creates an opportunity to develop a real and authentic relationship.

Through the consistent engagement of our MPP proteges with the Beck | Envision team, we were able to form a bond that made the proteges feel that we indeed do care about them and the growth of their companies. It was through this connection that we have been able to navigate and promote the proteges in areas that have positioned them to be awarded their very first contract on an Envision project. This project also stands as a major milestone for the Envision team as this is our first CM project with the University of South Florida; an opportunity that is simply the beginning of our journey to new growth.

We say congratulations to Rodney Jones of All-In-One Electric and Max Volmar Jr. of M & G Janitorial Services.

Last week, the Beck Envision team came together in partnership with USF for their Second Annual Supplier Diversity Day. USF’s Supplier Diversity Day is a day created to bring together diverse companies from throughout the Tampa Bay area. During this day, local businesses are able to discover different ways to conduct business with USF through their upcoming projects as well as year-round opportunities. This day also acts, however, as a platform to expose local businesses to other local minority firms throughout the Tampa Bay area.

During this year’s Supplier Diversity Day, the Beck Envision team thoroughly enjoyed connecting with really great people who own great businesses, as we came together with one mission in mind – to learn more and connect with our community.

This year’s MED Week hosted by the Minority Enterprise Development Corporation, was a week that provided business matchmaking, trade shows, and seminars on topics such as establishing relationships with buyers, conducting business with the government, and much more. This year, the Envision team had the opportunity of presenting on who we are and our exclusive partnership with the Beck Group to a room of Purchasing Agents & Supplier Diversity Liaisons from throughout Tampa, Florida.

This opportunity was made possible when the Minority Enterprise Development Corporation noticed how Tampa International Airport interacted with various MBE firms on their recent expansion project and reached out to the corporation to host this year’s MED week bus tour.  With this invitation, the Tampa International Airport reached out to a few of their most impacted MBE firms who partnered with them on phase 1 of their newest expansion projects, including Envision.

From three years ago being awarded our first $60,000 contract from Tampa International Airport through Skanska, to it growing into a $2 million opportunity, we have experienced the passion and pure heart’s desire of Tampa International Airport, to not only include MBE’s on their expansion projects, but to also see them grow.

Last week, The Beck | Envision team hit the road and attended Florida A&M University’s all Majors Career & Internship Expo in Tallahassee, Florida. In attendance were Chris Polo, Beck’s Pre Construction Engineer, Gabrielle Howard, Envision’s Marketing Coordinator, and Zuri Mabry, Beck’s Project Engineer. During the career fair, our team had the opportunity to connect with students, both undergraduate and graduate, and exposed them to what we’re building within our organizations as well as how each participant would potentially play a role as interested candidates of the firms. When painting a picture of what we’re building for each of the candidates who joined our booth, the team took time to describe the Beck | Envision Partnership, along with the value in it as it pertains to team integration and their future potential involvement within it.  

Our team had a blast connecting with the future employees of the workforce and hearing all about their interests and future plans for after college. Its events like these that help us to continue reaching and inspiring the next generation of construction leaders, not only by exposing them to the industry but also by enhancing their insights and expectations of what to look forward to in construction.