A business event for architecture leaders across the UK comes to Aberdeen on 22 January.
Consultancy founder Kevin Crawford – who has 27 years’ experience in practice – is hosting Designing Success, a practical, peer-led event for architecture practice owners and senior leaders who want greater clarity in how they run their businesses and sustainable growth in the years ahead.
The one-day event will focus on sharing the business fundamentals that make architecture practices thrive, and will tackle the aspects of practice that too often goes untaught including leadership, finance, marketing, culture, and succession.
Essential topics to be covered include:
- The Biggest Challenges – interactive discussion on the things that hold business leaders back
- 2025 Review and 2026 Planning Session – a powerful exercise to move ahead
- Becoming Data Driven – Reporting and making decisions on data rather than emotion
- Financial Health – Bank Account Structures, Buffer Accounts and Budgeting
- Marketing – How to identify what projects are a good fit
- Vision & Culture that inspire teams
- Project Management – Live Demonstration of Pilotis & chance to be part of Beta Testing
- Succession Planning to protect value and legacy
- Collaboration – join a support community on your journey
The event – on Thursday 22 January at the city’s Village Hotel – will also support the launch of a new Project & Practice Management App, alongside free tools, key speakers and new opportunities to help practices streamline operations and make better, faster decisions.
The new project & practice management App – called Pilotis – is among the first of its kind in Scotland and provides a flexible platform that businesses can tailor entirely to their own needs and use to achieve efficient time tracking, project brief creation, resourcing, reporting and project management among other things.
The app helps practice owners to free up more time for the parts of the job they enjoy most, to provide clarity among their team and to have a more effective system to understand project briefs and to quote based on greater clarity.
Across the UK, many practice owners and leaders tell me the same story – they left university with an introduction to the profession but little training in how to actually run a business. The result is often stress, inefficiency, and missed opportunities. The new app and this Designing Success event are both centered around giving clarity and confidence to build businesses that are resilient, profitable, and rewarding.”
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“This event is also about enhancing collaboration in the industry. We all face similar challenges, and by coming together to share solutions, we can save time, avoid mistakes, and open up opportunities. My hope is that attendees will leave not just with tools and strategies, but also with stronger connections across the profession.”
For more information or to reserve your space visit https://designingsuccess.co.uk/ for contact details.
