Joshua Distelhorst
Learning & Development Manager Traylor Construction Group
Joshua Distelhorst is the Learning and Development Manager at Traylor Construction Group, where he leads enterprise wide training and development across seven operating companies delivering complex heavy civil and marine projects. With over 20 years of leadership and consulting experience, Joshua specializes in developing leadership strategies, building high performing teams, and creating cultures where people thrive. He partners closely with field, corporate, and executive leaders to deliver practical, high impact learning—from onboarding engineers to building future leadership pipelines. Passionate about learning as a catalyst for performance, safety, and innovation, Joshua is proud to support the people behind some of North America’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.
Seminars
- Creating one culture across multi-company megaprojects by bringing teams from three partner organizations together at the start of $2B+ builds to cocreate shared norms and a unified jobsite culture through a structured two-day alignment process delivered with Team Trek
- Navigating cross company leadership structures and expectations as Traylor supports employees who may report to leaders from other partner firms, using clear frameworks to reduce friction, align behaviours, and maintain trust across differing values, cultures, and operating styles
- Measuring success through project performance and owner satisfaction by assessing the impact of Traylor’s JV culture building approach through hard outcomes including job success, on time delivery, meeting owner demands, and the growing adoption of this model across five-year infrastructure projects
This interactive Q&A explores practical ways to align norms from day one, reduce friction across partner organizations, and measure impact through project outcomes and owner satisfaction on multi-year megaprojects
