RIAS CPD
Designing Success: Finding Freedom and Focus in Your Practice
Tuesday 18th November 2025, 14.00-16.00pm
Online Recording
This webinar is structured to make you pause, reflect, and assess where you are in your journey. Nothing is more important than your own health, wellbeing, and mindset - but getting the balance between personal and business life is not always easy.
Architects are trained to design buildings - but nobody teaches them how to run a business. There is no manual, and nothing can truly prepare you for the demands of clients, the pressures of delivery, or the constant juggle of running a practice - other than lived experience. The irony is that while architects dedicate their time to creating homes, workplaces and spaces for others, they often have little time left to design their own business, personal lives, and futures.
Together we will look at the power of taking time out to plan - stepping away from the day-to-day pressures to create clarity and direction. We will explore the biggest challenges facing practices today, share practical solutions, and show how to implement them so that you can enjoy your profession, your business, and your life with greater freedom and focus.
Chairing the event will be RIAS Head of Practice, Zoe Black. For speaker details, please see below. You can find discounted block booking rates here.
Download the programme and full timings here: https://media.rias.org.uk/files/2025/11/14/5059D842-8DB1-CD71-DDF2-7E6F44D2EC9B.pdf
Course Objectives:
Accountability - Pause & Reflect on 2025 so far and get ahead for 2026
Identifying your Biggest Challenges through a live interactive questionnaire.
Focus v Distraction - Case Studies
Understanding Frameworks that when implemented, bring clarity and freedom.
Learning how to make sense of Key Metrics and become Data Driven and make better decisions.
A look at Tools & Technology that can make a big difference
RIAS CPD
Designing Success: Finding Freedom and Focus in Your Practice
Speaker biography:
Kevin Crawford - Founder, Designing Success
Kevin Crawford is the Founder of Designing Success, with over 25 years’ experience leading an architecture practice. Having seen first-hand how the business can run the architect, Kevin now helps practice owners and leaders step back, regain freedom and focus, and design a business — and life — that works for them.
Designing Success partners with architecture practice owners and leaders to help them move from being overworked and reactive to becoming strategic and fulfilled. Through coaching, events, and practical tools, it provides the clarity, confidence and community needed to build a sustainable practice — and a life by design.