Digital Leadership for the Built Environment

While ‘soft skills’ are often viewed as add-ons in the digital journey, they fact critical realizing opportunities created by Industry 4.0 for construction industry. This chapter focuses on a vital, but oft-neglected aspect of digitalization, namely leadership. By exploring understandings leadership built environment, we show that digitalization demands traditional views broadened from an existing focus senior figures firms to embrace wider across supply chains, projects and industry whole. Skills collaboration multi-cultural awareness important components this. enhanced view is explored practical examples their application firms, chains provided. The teaching case methodology introduced suitable pedagogical approach address this growing skills gap summarise data gathered during recent sessions using method. suggest some ‘dos don’ts’ leaders operating AEC guidance leading journeys chains.