Dirt Talk Podcast
Your Labor Shortage Is a Leadership Shortage w/ Nic Parish (DT 467)
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August 6, 2026
Your Labor Shortage Is a Leadership Shortage w/ Nic Parish (DT 467)
Nic Parish is the CEO of Burns Dirt, a civil construction company his grandfather and great-uncle started with two dump trucks in 1977, and a speaker who showed up to his first major keynote expecting 40 people and walked into a standing-room audience of 250. He spent a decade quietly stepping into a leadership role he never formally asked for, only to find himself mid-conversation trying to untangle a decade-long family buyout while figuring out who he was inside a company built by the people who raised him. He reveals why construction's people problem isn't a skills gap but a leadership gap, and why the contractors still blaming the next generation for being unprepared are ignoring the fact that they're the ones who raised them.
Follow Nic on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicparish/
Learn more about Burns Dirt at: https://www.burnsdirt.com/
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