01
The Toolkit, Reframed
The designer's toolkit reframed as leadership training: drawings as instructions with consequences, design risk owned rather than inherited, and the RIBA stages read as commercial as well as technical.
- The Drawing as Instruction · about 7 minutes
- The RIBA Plan of Work as a Commercial Document · about 6 minutes
- Coordination Without Authority · about 7 minutes
- Buildability, Cost and the Paper Trail · about 7 minutes
02
The Business of a Practice
How a consultancy actually makes money: chargeable time and net fee income per head, a fee proposal that reflects the work rather than the hope, duty of care under the standard UK appointments, and where risk moves through warranties, contribution clauses and novation.
- The Numbers a Practice Lives By · about 7 minutes
- The Fee Proposal and the Scope That Was Never There · about 7 minutes
- The Appointment and the Duty It Sets · about 6 minutes
- Where Your Duty Actually Goes, and the Roles You Now Carry · about 7 minutes
03
Leading Designers
The step from producing work to being responsible for other people's: delegating without losing control of quality, resourcing and developing people under pressure, the split between project and technical leadership, and the conversations technical excellence never prepared you for.
- Delegating Without Losing Control · about 7 minutes
- Resourcing and Developing People Under Pressure · about 7 minutes
- Project Leadership and Technical Leadership Are Not the Same Job · about 7 minutes
- The Conversations Nobody Trains You For · about 6 minutes
04
Getting There
The route to associate, associate director, director and partner: what a practice actually promotes for, chartership as the credibility floor rather than the differentiator, the real difference between a salaried directorship and equity, and where the role goes from there.
- What a Practice Actually Promotes For · about 6 minutes
- Chartership and the Reputation That Travels · about 7 minutes
- Taking the Job: Equity, Salary and the First Ninety Days · about 7 minutes
- How It Goes Wrong, and Where It Goes From Here · about 7 minutes