Engelhardt Named Finalist for ABJ Women in Business Award

AUSTIN, Texas — Halff Water Resources Deputy Practice Leader Cindy Engelhardt was recognized as a finalist for the Austin Business Journal’s 2024 Women in Business Awards.

The awards program honors women in Central Texas who have forged their own paths and developed their leadership principles.

A natural leader, Engelhardt has spent her entire career at Halff, where she’s grown the infrastructure consulting firm’s water resources group, cultivated key relationships with agencies that resulted in the state’s first-ever flood plan and secured nearly $19 million in grants to address flooding in Texas.

Halff has received a bevy of recent awards, including President and CEO Jessica Baker Daily’s accolade as a Dallas Business Journal Women in Business Award honoree and an Empowering Women Award for Halff’s Oklahoma City office.

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Halff is an award-winning, employee-owned, diverse and full-service infrastructure consulting firm that improves lives and communities by turning ideas into reality. For nearly 75 years, Halff has provided smart solutions for clients throughout the United States. The people-first firm is committed to continuously investing in its employees and fostering a culture of collaboration.

Halff has more than 30 offices in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. The firm was recognized as the 2023 Texas & Louisiana Design Firm of the Year by the Engineering News-Record. Halff is ranked No. 87 in the 2024 Top 500 Design Firms rankings by ENR. Halff is the No. 16 Top Workplace nationally in 2024 as ranked by Energage for businesses with 1,000 to 2,499 employees.