How to Brace your Business for Economic Uncertainty

Date Published: 26/11/2020

Hear from three interior designers about how they have bolstered their businesses through recessions, Brexit, and the global COVID-19 crisis

In these days of uncertainty and economic upheaval, business owners are now more than ever encouraged to take the reins of their companies cashflows and brace themselves against recession, unprecedented pandemics and even bankruptcy.

Join BIID members, and seasoned business owners, Lori Pinkerton-Rolet, Susie Rumbold and Lester Bennett as they discuss their strategies on how to survive hardship, the systems that have assisted them in managing their staff and staying solvent, and how they have used innovation to change the way they do business when business was bad.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This 45-minute webinar will discuss assessing your portfolio, researching additional target markets, opportunities in the ‘new digital environment’, ideas for ancillary revenue streams, and more!

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Lori Pinkerton-Rolet - Lori has been Director of Park Grove Design since 1993, working in the residential and contract markets in the UK North America, Europe, and most recently Africa. With a passion for improving design criteria within the care home sector, the Park Grove Design team base their work on a simple philosophy: good design should be timeless and unique. Lori is a Past President of the BIID and an ADR Group Accredited Mediator.

Susie Rumbold - Susie is the Founder and Creative Director of Tessuto, a successful, multidisciplinary design studio, based in London. Established in 1993, Susie has built up a prestigious portfolio of commercial and private clients. Her practice specialises in both the design of large residential developments for the sales and private rental sectors, luxury homes for private, and a variety of hotel and hospitality sector projects. Susie is a Past President of the BIID.

Lester Bennett - Lester is a BIID Past President and an independent design consultant with 40 years of design experience. His career has included founding his own practice, working as a design director for a leading residential developer and as a founding partner of Folio Design LLP. Lester specialises in residential interior architecture and design, whilst also having a wide range of experience in commercial and retail design, industrial, exhibition and product design.

This webinar is worth 1 hour of structured CPD.