Kevin Cooley, P.E., is the director of the Progress Energy Leadership Institute and the founder and president of PBO Solutions in Longwood, Florida. PBO Solutions is a management advisory and support firm, serving infrastructure planning and design organizations nationwide. Since forming his management consulting practice in 2001, he has helped numerous project-based organizations and their principals to envision, plan and achieve their goals and to deal more effectively with the myriad of issues, problems and challenges facing those

organizations and their leaders. Kevin helps engineering professionals to develop and enhance their management and leadership skills and capabilities. He is a certified PeopleMap System trainer.

Kevin is a former senior executive for PBS&J, a nationally-renowned, Florida-based, engineering, architectural and planning consulting firm where he spent the first 28 years of his professional career. He played a principal role helping that firm successfully grow and diversify from a mid-sized (150-employee), regional surveying and engineering firm to an engineering top 50, national a/e/c firm which now has nearly 4,000 employees throughout the U.S. He was a principle associate stockholder of PBS&J and served for seven years on the Board of Directors for the firms' operating company and its Employee Retirement (401K) Trust. As Corporate Technical Services Director, he was a “front-line” executive-level decision-maker. He coordinated the re-structuring of the firm from a geographical to a service-line organization and was responsible for company-wide oversight, training and development of the firm’s 400+ project and operating unit managers.

Kevin is a recognized leader in the engineering profession having served as president of the Florida Engineering Society (FES) and as Southeast Regional Vice President of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).  He is a Fellow of both FES and NSPE and remains active in both organizations mentoring and developing the future leaders of these professional organizations. He holds a MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College and a Bachelors degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Rhode Island.