Coaches On The Couch
By Rachel Birchmore and Louise Rodgers
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Coaches On The Couch is the podcast from the coaches behind Step Up (stepuplondon.com) the leadership development programme for architects and built environment consultancies. Co-hosts Rachel Birchmore and Louise Rodgers bring their experience and knowledge of the sector and coaching insights to explore the world of work and progressive leadership through conversations with special guests.
Our publication 'Learning from Lockdown' marking 12 months of the podcast is available at http://www.stepuplondon.com/shop/cotc-the-book
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Tom Larsson, Founder of Grow Places "As the business grows, imparting our values and principles onto the team and selecting the right people is an interesting transition."
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Louise Wyman, Executive Director Strategic Development at CBRE “The thought of networking used to fill me with dread but I've stepped out of my comfort zone throughout my career and learned from it.”
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Clarissa Bromelle, Head of Social Imagination at Human Nature “There are many elements of regenerative leadership that are embedded into what we’re doing at Human Nature.”
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Dinah Bornat, director of ZCD Architects “They (Gen Z) want what the rest of us want. They want to be taken seriously and their ideas to be heard.”
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Keir Regan-Alexander, principal of Arka Works “Generative Design and AI tools will fundamentally change how we practice, and how we design things.”
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Leanne Tritton, founder of ING Media “I have the style and energy that gets the plane off the ground. Damian has the style and energy for long-haul flights.”
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jennifer De Vere-Hopkins, Jestico + Whiles “It is important for people to see that architecture, and the people who make up the profession, is very broad.”
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Holly Lewis, We Made That “I have personally come to embrace that word ‘leadership’ more.”
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Susan David, psychologist and author “Emotional agility is about loosening up, calming down and living with more intention. It’s about choosing how you’ll respond to your emotional warning system.”
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Emma Keyte, brand strategist and writer “Glue can also be born out of things going a bit wrong. Out of trouble.”
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Tina Norden, Conran and Partners ‘’I try to lead from the front. I'm very involved and very passionate about what I do. And I'm very hands on, or as much as I can be.’’
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Linda Thiel, Partner, White Arkitekter “Within the Swedish culture, it's about the group effort. That’s embedded in many Swedes’, or Scandinavians’, upbringing.”
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Eric Bull, SEW “We need to remember that sustainable design is just about the same thing as good design.”
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May 25, 2023 |
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Ruth Oates, Buro Four “Part of the sustainability journey is about empowering us as individuals to do the right thing.”
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May 22, 2023 |
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Andrew Lerpiniere, Director of Webb Yates Engineers “We’re consciously thinking about what we do, and how we do it, and how we can make a positive difference to society.”
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Natalia Uribe, Director of AFK Studios, “You need to understand not only the skillsets of your team but their passions and how they want to grow as designers.”
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Hanif Kara, Founding partner, AKT II. “I think that idea of a genius engineer is gone. We’re in a post-genius world. The product of the practice is more important.”
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Martyn Evans, Creative Director, U+I “If you've got an opportunity to rethink, then you've got an opportunity to rethink better.”
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Denise Bennetts, Founder of Bennetts Associates. “What EOTs are about is common purpose. It’s much more than the financial bottom line.”
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Damien Sharkey, Managing Director of HUB. “It's been said to me a lot in my career that you need to be old and have grey hair, to sit on a board or to have an opinion or voice. I disagree with that.”
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Simon Henley, Director of Henley Halebrown “People have been saying recently that there's a real clarity to our work, now more than ever."
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Jas Bhalla, Jas Bhalla Architects “Leaders need to be flexible and adaptable because times are uncertain. We are all going to have to learn to adapt.”
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Chris Williamson, Chairman of WW+P Board “We are keeping our name, our identity, our brand. We will keep on doing what we’re doing.”
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Jon Ackroyd, Ackroyd Lowrie “As soon as you start to build a team, you realise the power of the team.”
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Karen Mosley, HLM “I learnt early on that there are certain things in life that are really important. That sense of belonging, feeling respected, having opportunities. Money isn't everything.”
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May 26, 2022 |
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Emily Slupek, Buro Four “You need to be able to listen and observe and sift through a lot of information and identify opportunities that you feel that you can bring into the company”.
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May 12, 2022 |
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Andy Matthews, Roach Matthews “Getting to know yourself - how you react, how you respond, how you think - is, I believe, a really important part of leadership.”
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Jenni Montgomery, Barton Willmore “There are a whole range of different ways to participate in business development and you need to find a way that you’re most comfortable with.”
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Carl Turner, Turner Works “We felt the term ‘architect’ was holding back the practice and limited people’s perception of what we can do.”
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Scott Grady, Haptic Architects “Collaboration has been within the Haptic DNA from the very first few months of the practice.”
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Annalie Riches, Mikhail Riches “We have turned down work…and it drives our decisions on whether to take projects on or go for bids.”
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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“A year on from our first ‘Made Visible’ event, we explore, with special guests, how leaders and business are adapting to the new reality of flexible working patterns.”
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Louise Rodgers, Step Up - At EOT and BCorps with their newer structures of ownership they are about a less literal and more emotional ownership over an organisation’s purpose’
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Connie Ivanova, Stride Treglown “If you approach leadership in a more collaborative way and look out for people’s interests and inspiration, and connect with them..this helps to build future leaders."
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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David Gabe, Core Five “Growing and leading our team through a period of rapid growth has been far harder than delivering on a technical level.”
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Neal Shasore, London School of Architecture “The worst thing one could try to do would be to emulate one’s predecessor, when they are a founder.”
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Pete Swift, Planit-IE “To achieve continuous improvement it is absolutely vital to hold yourself accountable to the B Corp framework.”
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Alex Ely, Mae Architects “In the early years I was more of a chess master….now I am more like a gardener.”
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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David West, Studio Egret West “Our relationship has matured as we have matured.”
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Pooja Agrawal, Public Practice “I think it is important to understand and to own your strategy for making change”
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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“Working virtually has in some ways been a great leveller. That’s one of the positive things to take forward.”
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May 18, 2021 |
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Adam Scott, FreeState “There is an opportunity to rethink the office as a kind of perpetual field test.”
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Jacob Willson, Sarah Beth Riley, and Luke Tozer “We like to think we put in a lot of the ground work as designers to help the projects fly.”
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Angharad Palmer and Bernadette Keane, Landsec “Influence requires a certain level of self-confidence.”
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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AJ’s 40 under 40 “I had an ethos I wanted to see through.”
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Paul Monaghan, AHMM “Zeev Aram once told me that he had never seen his own candle diminished by the light of someone else’s. And that stayed with me.”
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Dan Whittingham “I have certainly felt a weight of responsibility in terms of our people, who are giving the best years of their career to us. We have to make sure those years are well-served.”
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Jo Bacon “We have taken the opportunity to reconsider our workspace and make a bigger commitment to long-term flexibility.”
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Gbolade Design Studio “How can leaders maintain connectivity, presence and visibility in distributed teams”
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Domi Oliver and Alexis Butterfield “How do you retain the culture in a workforce that is more agile? How do you continue to do things that live and breathe the brand?” Domi Oliver, PTE
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Catherine Greig, make:good “It feels incredible to be heard and to be seen. We don’t even have to agree with each other.”
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Allan Dunsmore, Conisbee “For everything to function you can’t have everyone wanting to be a leader.”
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Rachel Birchmore, Coaches On The Couch Co-Host “Leadership comes in many guises from different personality types and from different levels of the organisation.”
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Hari Phillips, Bell Phillips “Whether you are two or three you need enough common ground so that you’re pushing in the same direction.”
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Matt Mason “We have some responsibility to make sure that all of our teams are functioning properly and that the people are well.”
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Harbinder Birdi, Hawkins Brown “The apprenticeship route is a way of relieving some of the unnecessary stress that qualifying as an architect entails.”
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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David Ogunmuyiwa, ArchitectureDoingPlace “Reverse mentoring allows you access to a world that you are incapable of experiencing.”
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Joe Morris, Morris+Company “It is our responsibility as leaders of the practice to liberate people to explore with more abandon different ideas.”
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Rachel and Louise discuss the impact of “The ‘disorientating dilemma’ that has broken an inertia around flexible working and is presenting quite a few opportunities.”
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Ross Hutchinson, Hutchinson and Partners “We wanted to take control of our own destiny rather than waiting for the politicians to sort out what Brexit looks like.”
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Bradley Webster, Baily Garner “What I yearned for was clear, strong, experienced leadership which people may perceive now as being autocratic or dictatorial.”
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Leanne Tritton of ING Media “You’ve got to get back, show yourself and hustle for new work.”
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Nick Searl of Argent “One of the most important characteristics of a good leader is optimism and it’s optimism that leads to inspiration.”
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Leah Stuart and Andrew Ruck, Civic Engineers “We have to be prepared to decline a commission if it doesn’t fit and if it’s not appropriate, and that takes soul-searching and courage.”
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Kirsten Lees and Katie Atkinson, Grimshaw “We can’t ignore the fact that there has been a massive shift in our expectations of working life.”
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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John McRae and Colin McColl, ORMS Architects "An Employee Ownership Trust still needs leadership."
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Priya Shah, BAME in Property “We all have unconscious bias, acknowledging it is the first step.”
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Martyn Evans, U+I "I can't believe you made me say oatmeal."
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Welcome to Coaches On The Couch
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Jun 09, 2020 |