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Intelligent Risk
July 17, 2025
Risk is an essential dimension in business (and life!), but it can be the making or undoing of businesses, ideas, partnerships, projects, and teams.
How do you manage and take risks in your business? What are the qualities or factors you weigh in taking risks? What is the course you are plotting with the risks you’re taking?
London
Intelligent Risk
July 10, 2025
Risk is an essential dimension in business (and life!), but it can be the making or undoing of businesses, ideas, partnerships, projects, and teams.
How do you manage and take risks in your business? What are the qualities or factors you weigh in taking risks? What is the course you are plotting with the risks you’re taking?
San Francisco
Elevating Performance
June 18, 2025
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in New York City for a Roundtable on the topic: Elevating Performance and Holding Others Accountable.
Accountability and high-performance are essential for building a strong, effective team. In this Roundtable, we’ll share successes (and failures!) in creating accountability on our teams to drive performance, culture, and growth.
New York
Storytelling
May 15, 2025
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us for global Roundtables on the topic: Storytelling.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for shaping perceptions and driving growth. In this Roundtable, we’ll invite leaders to share how they craft stories about their businesses, explore the impact these narratives have on their success, and discuss moments when storytelling either propelled or hindered their growth.
Global
Storytelling
May 14, 2025
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in Austin for a Roundtable on the topic: Storytelling.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for shaping perceptions and driving growth. In this Roundtable, we’ll invite leaders to share how they craft stories about their businesses, explore the impact these narratives have on their success, and discuss moments when storytelling either propelled or hindered their growth.
Austin
Storytelling
May 08, 2025
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in London for a Roundtable on the topic: Storytelling.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for shaping perceptions and driving growth. In this Roundtable, we’ll invite leaders to share how they craft stories about their businesses, explore the impact these narratives have on their success, and discuss moments when storytelling either propelled or hindered their growth.
London
Compensation
April 17, 2025
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in New York City for a Roundtable on the topic: Compensation.
Compensation plays a critical role in shaping an organization’s culture and success. In this Roundtable, we invite members to share their approaches to setting compensation, the challenges they’ve faced, and their success stories.
New York
Sales & Selling
March 20, 2025
We invite Pro and Council members to join us for a Roundtable on the topic: Sales & Selling.
Pithy sales wisdom abounds. CRM tools are everywhere. Yet neither gets us far when it comes to the delicate dance of sales and selling.
Survival and growth in business depend on sales and selling, but, for many, the process is exhausting, emotionally fraught, and a distraction from the satisfaction of doing the work we’re required to sell.
Global
Growth & Culture
February 27, 2025
We invite Pro and Council members to join us in person in New York City for a Roundtable on the topic: Growth & Culture.
Growth in business brings opportunities, but it also requires an evolving culture to support that growth. As businesses scale, maintaining and nurturing a strong, cohesive culture becomes essential to sustained success. In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss the impact of growth on business culture, the challenges it creates, and how leaders are adapting their cultures to meet the demands of future growth.
New York
Goal Setting
January 30, 2025
We invite Pro and Council members to join us an Austin roundtable on Goal Setting.
Goal setting is crucial for translating vision into achievement, but it requires continuous effort and adaptation. In this Roundtable, we’ll explore effective strategies for setting and pursuing goals, and listen to the group’s varied perspectives and experiences with goal setting.
Austin
Goal Setting
January 16, 2025
We invite Pro and Council members to join us for global roundtables on Goal Setting for 2025.
Goal setting is crucial for translating vision into achievement, but it requires continuous effort and adaptation. In this Roundtable, we’ll explore effective strategies for setting and pursuing goals, and listen to the group’s varied perspectives and experiences with goal setting.
New York City
Hiring & Firing
November 13, 2024
Whether hiring for growth, for a niche skillset, for diversity, or for a new strategic initiative, the process can be time-consuming and even overwhelming.
For small businesses (and especially for service providers) knowing the right time to hire, and making time to get the process right is a difficult balancing act, but one that has the potential to yield transformative results over time.
In this discussion, we’ll hear from our seasoned co-leaders as they share insights gleaned across hiring markets and different geographies, with companies big and small. We’ll reveal some of the common pitfalls with recruitment (and firing), and some of the tools and techniques that can accelerate the processes and improve outcomes.
Global
Hiring & Firing
November 13, 2024
Whether hiring for growth, for a niche skillset, for diversity, or for a new strategic initiative, the process can be time-consuming and even overwhelming.
For small businesses (and especially for service providers) knowing the right time to hire, and making time to get the process right is a difficult balancing act, but one that has the potential to yield transformative results over time.
In this discussion, we’ll hear from our seasoned co-leaders as they share insights gleaned across hiring markets and different geographies, with companies big and small. We’ll reveal some of the common pitfalls with recruitment (and firing), and some of the tools and techniques that can accelerate the processes and improve outcomes.
Austin
Joy
November 13, 2024
Joy can often lead to better project outcomes, and it can certainly lead to a more satisfying work process. It’s alternative, a joyless slog up an unscalable mountain, seldom leads to lasting success.
In this roundtable, titled Joy, we will explore the role of joy in creating highly-motivated teams and successful projects.
We’ll discuss strategies and insights for fostering a supportive, inclusive, and positive workplace, and the role of leadership in setting the tone for a joyful work environment.
New York
Building People, Building Teams
October 17, 2024
How to you ensure your employees are on a continuous growth curve that shows you are invested in their career and professional success?
How to you motivate and reward employees who provide training, skill development and coaching to junior team members?
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss strategies and insights for internal workforce training and development.
New York
The Specialist vs. The Generalist
September 19, 2024
Most are familiar with the adage “jack of all trades, master of none, ” and you’ve likely debated the pitfalls of specialization or generalization in your business and personal skill set.
Whether project types, services offered, or clients cultivated, it can be hard to choose between perfecting your niche or expanding your offerings.
In this Roundtable, we’ll explore how real estate and design rewards and punishes specialization, generalization, and the area in between.
San Francisco
Why Should Anyone Follow You?
September 19, 2024
Designing and communicating a compelling vision for your company is an essential aspect of entrepreneurship.
How do we convince other people to put their faith in us, work hard for and with us, and stick around the the going gets tough?
How do we inspire the people we lead to do their best work, and to believe in our plan for where we’re going and how we intend to get there?
New York
Seeding Innovation
July 17, 2024
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in San Francisco for our Roundtable titled Seeding Innovation.
Innovation in the ways we work, and in the products and services we produce creates opportunity. Yet innovation is an ongoing proposition – it’s not enough just to innovate once. In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss approaches to seeding innovation in your field and nurturing the capability to innovate in your teams – even among the consultants you hire.
San Fracisco
Mentors and Mentees
July 17, 2024
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us for a Roundtable on Mentors and Mentees.
Do you have a mentor? Do you have a mentee who looks to you for guidance?
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss the nuances of mentor/mentee relationships and the value of both having a role model and being one to others.
New York
Making Great Decisions
June 20, 2024
How do you make critical decisions? Do you use a values-based decision-making framework, or another framework to check your instincts?
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss strategies and insights on how to make better decisions and ease decision fatigue.
New York
How to Handle Client Relationship Breakdowns
May 22, 2024
Though we enter new client engagements with energy, enthusiasm, and high hopes for what the future holds, the reality of realizing any built project is that it places stress on the clients, the project collaborators, and on the original vision for the project.
We are wise to counsel clients (before we engage!) that there will be ups and downs, and that this process can often be additive, though it seldom feels like it at the time.
Many projects survive or even flourish in the crucible of getting the work done. Others, for a variety of reasons, do not.
New York
The Power of Collaboration
May 02, 2024
We’re delighted to welcome Brick & Wonder members and select guests to our inaugural London Roundtable, generously hosted by Brick & Wonder member firm, Hayes Davidson.
Intuitively, we know that we go further together. Collaboration may help us do better work, and it can even increase the joy in the work we do, but in the crucible of doing our best work, things can sometimes get heated…
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss strategies and insights for developing and sustaining collaborations that unlock new opportunities in business growth.
London
The Sustainable Building Imperative
April 30, 2024
The built environment contributes up to 42% of global carbon emissions. These emissions take the form of embodied carbon needed to build and repair buildings, and the operational carbon that buildings consume to stay warm or cool, connected, and productive.
As professionals designing and building the places people live, work, and play, we are both part of the problem and part of the solution.
This Roundtable will explore the imperative to build better, more sustainable buildings. Our lives and the future of life on our planet depend on it.
Austin
Forging a Team of Leaders
April 24, 2024
New York City
The Power of Collaboration
March 28, 2024
Intuitively, we know that we go further together. Collaboration may help us do better work, and it can even increase the joy in the work we do, but in the crucible of doing our best work, things can sometimes get heated…
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss strategies and insights for developing and sustaining collaborations that unlock new opportunities in business growth.
New York
Performance Under Pressure
February 21, 2024
Entrepreneurship, leadership, and management all create great stress and pressure on those who lead, but we don’t always succeed in managing these moments well.
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss strategies and insights for navigating intense workplace pressure, avoiding failure, and supporting those we lead and manage to do the same.
New York
Intelligent Risk
January 23, 2024
Risk is an essential dimension in business (and life!), but it can be the making or undoing of businesses, ideas, partnerships, projects, and teams.
How do you manage and take risks in your business? What are the qualities or factors you weigh in taking risks? What is the course you are plotting with the risks you’re taking?
We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in Austin for a Roundtable on Intelligent Risk.