Hi! I’m Barb Jackson

Dr. Barbara Jackson

President – Barbara Jackson LLC.
Founder & Facilitator | Women Building Change Leadership Boot Camp

 After 20 years in industry as a chief estimator, senior project manager, and CEO of Design-Build Services Inc., and another 15 years developing design-build and integrated project delivery education at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo CA, Barbara returned to Colorado where her education and career in design and construction originally began. In August of 2013, Barbara took over the helm as the new Director of the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver, in Denver, CO, where she continues to serve.

In 2015, Jackson began delivering Leadership Boot Camps for Women in Construction.  Never having widely participated in “women’s only” activities previously in her career, she began to recognize the need for women to step up, and step out, in the construction industry.  As a longtime advocate for cultural change of the construction industry, she began to see a clear correlation between the industry’s transformation and its leadership.

After delivering the Leadership Boot Camps for 4-years and seeing the results that such targeted efforts made in terms of women achieving their goals, and being promoted to leadership roles in their companies, and the impact that had on their careers and the companies they worked for, it was even more evident that leadership matters when it comes to initiating and sustaining change.  In February of 2019, Jackson founded the initiative Women Building Change under the umbrella of her new company Barbara Jackson LLC, which is dedicated to transforming leadership and culture in the AEC industry.  Fundamental to this mission, Barb is dedicated to advancing women in the construction industry.  She strongly believes that women in leadership is key to the transformation of the industry that she grew up in and loves.  She currently hosts and facilitates several Boot Camps each year and the number of Boot Camp alumni is growing across the country.  She is clearly changing the face of the industry, one woman at a time.