EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage

How To Attract Top Talent To Your Architecture Firm Shannon Hughes is a consultant and facilitator with a calling to nurture 'people first' company culture with small and medium-sized firms. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she brings strategic business mentorship and experiential teaching practices to incite easeful collaboration and embolden transformational leadership. With 20+ years of corp...

Mark R. LePage Shares His Vision for EntreArchitect and the Future of Small Firm Architects Mark R. LePage, AIA, NCARB is a licensed architect based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is President and CEO of Gābl Technologies, Inc. and the founder of EntreArchitect, the global community for small firm entrepreneur architects, and  EntreArchitect.com , the online platform launched in 2012 to pro...

How Knowing The Price of Lumber Will Improve Your Next Architecture Project For 27 years, Michael Wisnefski has been actively trading commodities. Lumber is his specialty, where he is active in both the futures markets and the physically traded material. In July 2019, Wisnefski founded MaterialsXchange, a B2B digital marketplace for buying and selling lumber and structural wood panel. The inspirat...

Madame Architect Senior Editor Amy Stone is an architect and design manager at Gensler with a long-term interest in sustainable design and equitable environments. She is dedicated to the visibility and advancement of women in design and contributes as Senior Editor at Madame Architect. Amy is a life-long learner and is currently pursuing her MBA at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. Amy...

Tyler's Tactics for Communicating Your Unique Value as an Architect Tyler is a serial learner obsessed with helping architects optimize all things business development, marketing, and operations. Before transitioning into Business Development at Monograph, Tyler worked in large and small architecture offices and also ran his own architectural design studio for 2.5 years. He holds a B.S. in Archite...

Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of Architecture at Nomi Design Melody Farris Jackson, LEED AP, is a visual artist and designer that works between many scales and types of spatial design. Since joining Nomi, she has specialized in the development of branded environments using both architectural and fabricated elements to create unique and custom experiences in architecture. From furniture and install...

A Financial Scoreboard for Your Architecture Practice Rick Linley leads Strong Practice Strategies, a business consultancy focused on helping leaders of evolving and emerging design firms to strengthen their practices. His work is informed by over 30 years of practice experience culminating in his role as Principal/COO of a 200-person, multi-disciplinary, multi-location design firm. Rick taught pr...

The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice Jake Rudin is a strategic thinker and designer with a decade of experience in building things from the ground up. At Adidas, he leads teams in Computational Design, Digital Technologies, and Pattern Engineering. He also runs Out of Architecture, a career consulting firm helping designers apply their incredible talents in untraditional ways. He ha...

Learning to BIM with Shoegnome Jared was raised in New England (Connecticut), educated in Texas (Rice University), and worked in Minnesota for eight years before moving to Seattle, Washington in 2014. Jared is a licensed architect in the state of Washington. Jared founded Shoegnome, LLC in 2010 to promote the use of Archicad and BIM in residential firms. In 2015, Jared evolved Shoegnome into a hyb...

EntreArchitect Studio is a series of special bonus episodes where Mark invites inspiring, passionate people to share their knowledge and information about the building products and services to help you build better buildings. This week at the EntreArchitect Studio we are featuring: Scan2Plan - V. Owen Bush V Owen Bush is a creator and entrepreneur who uses immersion and participation to create tra...

How To Maximize Your Creativity Everyday Positioning himself as an “arms dealer for the creative revolution”, Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of five books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, Herding Tigers, The Motivation Code, Daily Creative) which have been translated into more than a...

Architecture Through Film Reveals The Unseen Story KLIWADENKO NOVAS is an audiovisual production company with a focus on contemporary architecture, urban planning and its relationship with society. The works have been exhibited at architecture film festivals such as New York, Rotterdam, Venice and New Zealand, among others, as well as biennials such as Switzerland or Seoul. Katerina Kliwadenko, a...

NCARB and the Future of the Profession In this bonus episode of Practice Disrupted, Evelyn Lee and Je’Nen Chastain sit down with Patricia Ramallo and Jared N. Zurn, AIA, NCARB of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) to learn how NCARB is responding to wide-reaching industry change and transformation. We’ll discuss NCARB’s role in advancing equity in architecture, inclu...

The 3 KPIs Every Architect Should Be Tracking Hannah Smolinski is a CPA and the founder of Clara CFO Group, a virtual CFO agency providing small businesses with financial clarity and profit maximization strategies. Her experience working for one of the world’s largest accounting firms inspired her to make corporate expertise accessible to small business owners through fractional CFO services. She...

Detroit Michael Poris, AIA, is founding principal of McIntosh Poris Associates, a full-service architecture, interior and urban design practice in Birmingham, MI. Since returning to Detroit in 1995, Michael has been working to implement change in his hometown preserving many of Detroit’s 20th-century landmark buildings, historic districts, and iconic neighborhoods. Michaels design leadership has h...

How To Elevate Your Design Business Design is powerful and Pamela wants Design Professionals to step into that power. After 30 years in the high-end interior design business, she is now helping others create a business they love through Magnetic Marketing techniques which makes it easier to attract the best clients. Her book, Elevate! can be found on Amazon. Pam is a past-president of ASID Florida...

Confessions of an Entrepreneur Mark Zweig is an experienced entrepreneur and founder of two Inc 500/5000 companies, Zweig Group and Mark Zweig, Inc., as well as four other new Ventures.  He is a leading management and business expert in the architecture and engineering industry, skilled in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), start-ups, leadership, Human Resources management, organization st...

An introduction to EntreArchitect Network and our goal of connecting 100,000 entrepreneur architects worldwide. Mentioned in this episode: To Build is Human NCARB Podcast

EntreArchitect Studio is a series of special bonus episodes where Mark invites inspiring, passionate people to share their knowledge and information about the building products and services to help you build better buildings. This week at the EntreArchitect Studio we are featuring: Epic Smart Homes and Gary Sinise Foundation - Scott Ruzich Scott Ruzich presents a company that is aggressively at th...

Lessons in Leadership From the Ground Up Leo MacLeod is the author of From the Ground Up: Stories and Lessons from Architects and Engineers Who Learned to Be Leaders and co-author of the upcoming book, Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies. Founder of Training. Coaching. Pie., Leo helps AEC firms with leadership development, transition, emotional intelligence and why baking pie is a great way to deve...

Residential Construction Estimating for Architects Chris Previte is a Licensed Construction Supervisor and Licensed Real Estate Salesperson with 20 years’ experience as a consultant, sales representative, and project manager in the residential remodeling industry. Success Techniques, Inc. has been providing residential remodeling feasibility studies, estimating, planning & contract w...

Material Bank As Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Material Bank, Farshid Tafazzoli is focused on corporate growth initiatives, from strategy to execution, and key strategic partnerships across all business units. Farshid has worked alongside Adam Sandow since the earliest days as Chief Technology Officer to build out Sandow’s vision to create the world’s largest material marketplace for ar...

The Architecture of Motherhood Gloria Kloter, AIA, NCARB, CODIA, is an award-winning architect, founder and CEO of Glow Architects, a keynote speaker, and a bestselling author. Gloria has been a practicing architect both in her home country (Dominican Republic) and in the United States since 2004. She is an advocate for immigrant architects, women in architecture, and motherhood.  In her...

Heartfulness Meditation for Architects Nitin Govila, a global business executive, has an extensive background in building and growing regions and organizations across multiple industries, channels and cultures. Presently as the Senior Vice-President for Serge-Ferrari, Nitin manages 7 independently-operated territories across Asia Pacific,Middle-East and Africa. Serving on the executive leadership...

Growing NS Builders with Content and Quality Nick Schiffer started NS Builders in 2014, but his story begins much earlier. Even as a kid, he loved working with his hands—tinkering with a bike, building a mini-empire with Lincoln Logs, figuring out how to put things back together after ripping them apart. At age 11, Nick was already working in his Dad’s fencing business. Attending a vocational scho...