Events

Reputation & the Long Game

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us at Roundtables on the topic: Reputation & the Long Game. In a relationship-driven industry, reputation is the compounding asset that underlies almost everything else. This Roundtable invites members to reflect on reputation as a long-term asset, the difficult decisions required to protect it, and how it evolves over time with our brands, work, and teams.

Sustainable Building Imperative

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us at Roundtables on the topic: Sustainable Building Imperative. The built environment accounts for as much as 42% of global carbon emissions, and most of us already know the number. Far fewer of us have changed how we spec, build, or price because of it. In this Roundtable, we’ll get past the sustainability talking points and into what it actually costs in time, money, and client relationships to build lower-carbon, longer-lasting buildings, and what it takes to make that case stick.

What Is Your Time Really Worth?

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join for Roundtables on the topic: What Is Your Time Really Worth? Most firms in our industry sell time. Remarkably few know what an hour costs them to deliver, or what it’s really worth to the client buying it. In this Roundtable, we’ll get into the economics underneath the work: how we set our fees, what we do when a number gets challenged, and what changes in a business when it starts pricing for the value it creates rather than the hours it spends.

Are You the Growth Bottleneck?

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in San Francisco at a venue to be confirmed for a Roundtable on the topic: Are You the Growth Bottleneck?

Most firms in our industry are built around the judgment of one or two people. This can sometimes be what makes the work good. It’s also, eventually, the ceiling on how much of it you can do.

In this Roundtable, we’ll examine the uncomfortable arithmetic of being the person every decision waits for: what you’ve successfully handed over, what you’ve not been able to let go of, and what that is costing the business you’re trying to grow.

The Art of the Ask

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in San Francisco at a venue to be confirmed for a Roundtable on the topic: The Art of the Ask.

Almost everyone in our community negotiates for a living, and yet almost nobody has been trained to do this!

Fees, scope, timelines, change orders, payment schedules, terms: every one of them is a negotiation, and most of us learn by losing. In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss what we have learned to ask for, how we set the ask up, and what it has cost us on the occasions we didn’t ask at all.

Partners

We invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members to join us in person in London at a venue to be confirmed for a Roundtable on the topic: Partners.

Most partnerships in our industry are structured once, early, when everyone wants roughly the same thing, and then rarely if ever revisited. The trouble arrives years later, when one partner wants to grow, another wants to slow down, and the agreement on the shelf is no longer fit for purpose.

In this Roundtable, we’ll have a candid conversation about ownership between people: how partnerships get built, how they get renegotiated, and what happens when they come apart. What is shared in this discussion will stay in the room!