Managing Risk: Aligning Values

October 14, 2026 | 8:30am to 10:00am

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Instructor: 

Pam Neckar

CEO - Impact Project Development

Pamela is the founder of Impact Project Development, dedicated to building high-performance teams and embedding trust-based collaboration into complex organizations/projects. She is the past president and founder of Cogence Alliance, a nationally recognized platform for advancing best practices in project delivery. With over 25 years of experience as a business owner and CFO at Bostwick Design Partnership, Pamela brings deep expertise in financial strategy, leadership development, and Integrated Project Delivery consulting. Her work transforms culture into measurable outcomes—aligning cost, schedule, and quality for lasting success.

Phil Truax 

Truax Law Group

Phil is the founder and owner of the Truax Law Group, Ltd., based out of Avon, Ohio. Truax Law specializes in construction law in Northeast Ohio, and prides itself both on a depth of knowledge of practical construction and design issues, and a mastery of the law. The firm offers pragmatic yet tenacious service in risk management, strategic advice, claims management, and dispute resolution.

Prior to forming Truax Law in 2021, Phil spent his legal career working in prolific construction practice groups at Ohio firms, and building the construction practice at a regional firm. Before his legal career, Phil worked as a laborer and labor foreman for several years on large commercial projects for large general contractors and several other trade contractors. Phil graduated from Ohio University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and obtained his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2005.  Phil is licensed in Ohio and Kentucky.