PP2: Project Management & Managing Contracts
About the event:
Dr Rachel Smart, MBA, design business consultant, will lead delegates through all aspects of running an interiors project, from first conversations with clients to successful completion.
About the speaker:
Since 2000, Dr Rachel Smart has been advising commission and product based design businesses, teaching design management and entrepreneurship at MA level for a number of educational institutions and providing professional practice seminars to organisations including Crafts Council, Craft Central, Arts Council and Design Initiative, Design Nation. She is currently Chair of London Printworks Trust. Rachel trained as an interior designer, completed an MBA and was director of an architectural practice and also completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London researching design entrepreneurship.
Please note places are limited to 12 people and book up extremely quickly.
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