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Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
The Heartset of Resilience
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
David Lau is an accomplished leader and serves as a Senior Instructor with the FLETC Leadership Institute. He is a combat veteran and regularly speaks on resilience, wellness, anti-fragility, and post traumatic growth. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about his life changing deployment to Afghanistan, the examples of leadership that continue to influence him, and how a traumatic event can actually be a springboard to a deeper, richer, more fulfilling life.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Lessons in Leadership: Planning and Focus
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Like a bullet from a gun, the speed and focus of business at the start of the year gauges the velocity of the overall business for the overall year. Are you following the plan you set in place before the starting gun of the new year began?
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Designing for Disaster
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Eric Cesal is a designer, educator, writer and noted post-disaster expert. He has been called “Architecture’s First Responder” by The Daily Beast for his work leading Architecture for Humanity’s post-disaster programs from 2010 to 2014. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the red thread running through his multi-faceted career, the event that caused him to realize the true power of design, and how, with good design strategies, architects can design the disaster out of extreme natural phenomena.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Lessons in Leadership: Reacting to Criticism
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
As a leader you have to give those following you the benefit of the doubt and press in to get to the truth rather than respond from your own fear of rejection. After all, rejection is perhaps the most difficult dynamic between humans, and leaders face it every day.
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Pushing Boundaries
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Known for seamlessly interweaving sustainable landscapes, art, and architecture, Andrea Cochran is the founding partner of Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture and a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 Design Futures Council Lifetime Achievement Award. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she talks about the path that led her to the profession, the relationship between art and design, and why she thinks landscape architects are uniquely situated to help solve some of our most complex environmental problems.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Lessons in Leadership: Responsible Demeanor
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
As a leader, it’s important to be aware that others depend on you for direction, confidence, self-discipline, and genuine care. When your demeanor communicates these things, people are more apt to embrace your authenticity.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
What Could Be
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Ella Hazard is the Managing Director of Arktura Ventures, a venture studio wholly backed by Armstrong World Industries that focuses on accelerating and incubating advancements in architecture, engineering and materials science in building and construction. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she talks about the trial and error of her nonlinear career path, how the stumbles she’s made along the way have perfectly positioned for her current job, and why applying the practices of venture design to the delivery of architecture might be key in changing its value proposition.
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Lessons in Leadership: Investing in Your Growth
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
How much time, effort, and money are you investing in your growth? The people that follow you as their leader depend on you bettering yourself on a regular basis.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Lessons in Leadership: DesignIntelligence in 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Make no mistake about it, 2024 will be replete with challenges. DesignIntelligence is committed to staying focused on our community of built environment professionals and firms to support you with insight empowered foresight, pragmatic and strategic advice to weather whatever comes, and provisioning the perspectives you need for the decisions that matter.