Emerging to Leading
Business Leadership for Emerging Professionals
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Business Leadership for Emerging Professionals
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Highlights
- 7 hours
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico
225 Calle del Parque
San Juan, San Juan 00912
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Agenda
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Session 1: The Entrepreneurial Architect
Host: Arq. Monique Lugo Description: This session challenges the traditional “launching your own firm” narrative to prove that our profession needs more strategic leaders and fewer small practices fragmenting the market’s impact. Through the lens of “The Intrapreneurial Architect,” we will explore how to exercise an ownership mentality by mastering finances, operations, and business development from within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. Drawing from experience, participants will learn how to leverage existing infrastructure to design the future without the burnout of starting from zero. Learning Objectives: • Attendees will learn collaborative executive leadership by applying business fundamentals—specifically financial management, rainmaking, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation—from within to drive collective profitability and personal career equity moving away
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Session 2: Winning Work and Defining Value 101: Professional service proposals
Host: Arq. Mariela Bravo Pascual Description: This session examines how architects communicate the value of their services through professional proposals and scope definition. Participants will explore how to structure proposals clearly, define services and responsibilities more effectively, and communicate scope in a way that supports client understanding, alignment of expectations, and stronger professional relationships. Learning Objectives: • Identify the key components of a clear and effective professional service proposal. • Explain how scope definition supports better communication of services, roles, and expectations. • Recognize strategies for presenting architectural services in a clear, professional, and value-based manner. • Describe how effective proposal and scope communication can support business development and client alignment.
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Session 3: The Architecture of Networking 101
Host: CKLDP - Arq. Brenda García Sosa + Arq. Jorge Ramírez Buxeda Description: This session explores networking as a professional development tool within the architecture profession. Participants will examine how intentional relationship-building can support career growth, collaboration, mentorship, visibility, and access to opportunities, while strengthening long-term engagement within the profession. Learning Objectives: • Recognize networking as a strategic component of professional growth in architecture. • Identify approaches for building and sustaining meaningful professional relationships. • Explain how networking supports collaboration, mentorship, and career development. • Describe strategies for engaging more intentionally and effectively in professional and industry settings.