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Webinar | Adaptive Communications for Engineers and Geoscientists

15 Sep 2026
Register by September 14

This workshop is designed to help you enhance your communication skills, fostering stronger relationships with colleagues and clients, and building trust and authority in your professional roles. Engineers often have a technical, data-driven communication style that may not always resonate with non-technical stakeholders. By understanding your own communication tendencies and learning strategies to adapt your style, you can become a more effective leader and collaborator.

Learning objectives:

That's why we will teach you how to recognize your communication style and that of others, how to really listen to the
speaker, and adapt your style so you can:
  • have people leave your conversations feeling heard and empowered
  • build trusting relationships with clients and colleagues
  • lead with intention and influence
  • get ready to connect.

This session will be held through ON24.

For any questions about this event, please contact [email protected].

About the presenter

Giulia Brutesco, P.Eng., has over 15 years of experience working with industry associations, government regulators, and stakeholders. This work has been comprised of building strong relationships and making meaningful changes. She is also notably a professional engineer in the province of Ontario.

Giulia is known for developing successful science-based policy strategies and bringing them across the finish line with
professionalism and grace. She is passionate about understanding differing perspectives and turning them into long-term strategies and goals to create thoughtful and meaningful visions.

Giulia asks the right questions, understands complex issues, and works with clients to identify simple and manageable solutions. By empathetically managing member relations, she has backed several wins in contentious, industry association environments. For example, Giulia saved the fertilizer industry $72 million and avoided an unnecessary turnover in assets through careful collaboration and negotiations with members, government departments, and standard-setting bodies.


As a leadership coach, Giulia helps her clients step into their leadership potential by leaning into their strengths so they can lead authentically with authority, vision, and influence. Giulia is a Certified Behavioural Consultant and part of the John Maxwell Leadership team.

This event applies to the following Work Readiness Program skill areas:

Inclusive LeadershipCommunication

  • Speaker:
    Giulia Brutesco, P.Eng.
  • Cost:
    Free
  • Registration Deadline:
    September 14