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A Quick Note on Texas

Power grid issues aside, Texas is excelling in just about every way imaginable when it comes to
population growth. The Lone Star State ranks first in numeric population growth, first in natural
population growth, second in net migration, second in domestic migration, and fourth in
international migration.
- Zach Fritz, Sage Economics, December 26, 2022

 inspire our people to promote
and support the FGM Architects
brand;
A new initiative, coming first
quarter 2023, includes the rollout
of a client management program.
We envision this program to give
our people the tools needed to
promote and carry the FGMA
Brand.

 provide industry-leading training and leadership development programs to our people;
Implementing great training and leadership development programs are a large reason why we
hired Elizabeth (our CPO), as mentioned previously. We have rolled out the “People Plan” and are
in the process of carrying it out. We will need your help to successfully implement the plan. And
we have continued, and will continue, to augment the plan with specialized outside growth
opportunities. This year has seen multiple leadership retreats, specialized training throughout the
firm, and continuation of our Counselor Salesperson program.

 model diversity, equity and inclusion for the architectural industry;
We have kicked off our diversity, equity and inclusion initiative with the recent DEI survey all our
people were asked to participate in. Next steps are currently being developed and a DEI
Committee is in the early stages of formation, beginning with a Committee Charter which is
based, in large part, on the next steps resulting from the survey.

 live and breathe design thinking as professionals;
We are also in the process of forming a “Design Thinking Task Force”. This will also be one of our
important initiatives for 2023 – to determine what design thinking really means to us, and how it
will affect our design and delivery processes.

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