One Aim. One Team. One UMS.
Two days. One room. The people who run the field and the people who set the direction — working through what comes next, together.
Setting Our Sights
A year ago, at UMS's year-end meeting, the company set out to become one thing rather than several — a single organization working off a shared picture, not separate departments moving on their own tracks. The same handful of concerns had already been surfacing independently across field, office, and leadership, each without full visibility into what the others were seeing. That meeting became the launch point: where leadership took those concerns and organized them into a single, connected story — Build, Decide, and Lead.
Zeroing a sight is the deliberate work of aligning aim, judgment, and follow-through before pressure hits — and that's what this year has been for UMS: getting our aim true before the next stretch of growth. This summit is where we confirm that calibration, correct where it's off, and commit to what comes next, together — One Aim. One Team. One UMS.
Make the Connection Visible
Show, session by session, how scattered concerns from across a siloed company turned out to be one story — and what's changed since UMS started treating them that way.
Build the Habit of Seeing It Ourselves
Real examples across the day show the same pattern: connections made too late, from outside the company rather than from within it. Every attendee leaves able to name one thing worth watching in their own area.
Leave Proud, Not Just Alert
The day doesn't end on what's still missing. It closes on what UMS genuinely built this year — in the field, in the data, in safety, in leadership — seen whole, together, for the first time.
Build. Decide. Lead.
Our three 2026 strategic initiatives, carried forward from 2025.
Operational Scalability & Margin Discipline
Every job on time and on budget. Growth that stays predictable and repeatable as project volume increases.
Enterprise Data Maturity & Decision Velocity
Right data, right people, smarter decisions, faster — moving from reporting after the fact to catching what matters in time to act.
Leadership Capacity & Accountability
Clear ownership at every level. Leaders growing leaders, without depending on any one person to carry it.
Core Values — Live the Values
These are not posters on a wall. They're the standard we hold each other to — during the summit and in the work that follows it.
Integrity, Trust & Honor
Hold conversations sacred; believe the best. Do not blame, gossip, or talk behind people's backs.
Include & Respect
See, hear, and respect every individual for their ability, perspective, and contribution to UMS.
Lead From Behind
Grow your team, teach them, hold them accountable, and let your team surpass you.
Work Hard, Play Hard
Get work done on time, exemplify UMS standards, be all in, and celebrate the wins.
Agenda
Session leads and exact times are being finalized and will be updated here before the summit.
Know Before You Go
Getting In
Arrive through the front doors off E Thomas St. Christy Lee may be there to let you in — if the doors are locked, knock on the HR office window and someone will come get you.
Traveling In Thursday
Thursday evening is the Kickoff — values, the three pillars, and the Steady Aim Showdown — with food and drinks curated by Brandon Abelseth.
Meals
Thursday evening food and drinks, and Friday breakfast and lunch, are all provided by UMS.
Dress Code
UMS attire.
Preparation
None required. No pre-read, no homework. Come ready to think and contribute.
Breaks
Breaks are built into the day. Use them to catch up on anything urgent.
After the Summit
Meeting notes will be sent out once the summit concludes, so nothing from the day gets lost.
Ground Rules
We're here to learn and to ask questions. Three rules make that possible.
Phones Away
For the duration of each session. Breaks are there for anything that can't wait.
No Laptops
Leave it at your desk. Meeting notes are being captured and sent out afterward — bring a notepad if you prefer to take your own.
Be Present
Come ready to participate, not to observe. The discussion is the point.