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  • How to Plug the Hidden Profit Drains in Your Firm’s Workflow

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    This course examines how operational disorganization through hidden means causes profit reduction in contemporary architectural business operations. The course analyzes how academic theory fails to meet professional work requirements through its systematic operational flaws. Many firm leaders experience a recurring pattern of mistakes followed by emergency fixes, which depend on informal mentorship, while this process secretly diminishes their project earnings and boosts their professional exposure to risk. The session provides a proactive system development approach that enables firms to enhance both project team performance and financial profitability. The training helps participants identify profit leaks so they can convert their business operations from risk factors into stable growth drivers. Learning Objectives: 1. Identify how the gap between academic theory and professional practice requirements creates systemic operational flaws that lead to hidden profit reduction and increased liability. 2. Analyze the financial impact of recurring mistakes and informal mentorship by connecting undocumented internal processes to diminished project earnings and non billable time. 3. Describe the core components of a proactive system development approach designed to enhance project team performance by systematizing a firm's internal training processes. 4. Apply strategies for developing an internal system that reduces dependence on ad-hoc training, improves quality control, […]

  • Projects, Partnerships, and Parenthood in Practice – Designing Your Own Path

    This FREE 1-hour webinar explores how women architects can define success on their own terms, while balancing practice, partnership, and parenthood. Through personal experience running a residential firm, Courtney Lowry, AIA, shares how she built her practice through word-of-mouth, local trust, and meaningful collaboration, including partnerships with other women architects across state lines. Blending storytelling with practical insights, this program highlights the importance of community, mentorship, and authenticity in sustaining a career that integrates professional and personal fulfillment. Attendees will leave inspired to cultivate supportive networks and create sustainable, values-driven practices. HSW Justification This session supports the health and welfare of the design profession and, by extension, the communities architects serve. By fostering collaboration, mentorship, and mental well-being (especially among women practitioners) it reinforces the personal and professional stability of architectural practice. When architects are supported, balanced, and connected, they can better address the diverse needs of clients and occupants through empathetic, contextually grounded design. This dialogue on sustainability in small practice and cross-state collaboration helps strengthen the professional ecosystem that protects and enhances the built environment. Learning Objectives After attending this program, participants will be able to: Identify the key steps, challenges, and lessons in establishing and sustaining a […]