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Lakeway Resort and Spa
101 Lakeway Drive, Austin, Texas 78734
(512) 834-8000

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Day 1 Speakers

Creating Bold Possibilities, Empowering Leaders to Build BOLD Firms

Bolanle Williams-Olley
Chief Financial Officer, Mancini Duffy

Personal: Bolanle Williams-Olley
Firm: Mancini Duffy
Book: Build Boldly: Chart Your Unique Career Path and Lead with Courage

Bolanle Williams-Olley is the CFO and co-owner of Mancini Duffy, a 100+ – year tech-driven design firm in NYC. She is a true multi-hyphenate. In addition to her C-suite role, Bolanle is a dynamic leader and founder of several impact organizations for improving education in low-income schools in Nigeria, empowering women and small firms, and creating awareness about NGOs across Nigeria. She is also the author of the bestselling book, Build Boldly: Chart Your Unique Career Path and Lead with Courage.

Hiring with Heart: Growing a Modern Design/Build Firm from Solo to 17

Marica McKeel
Founder and Principal, Studio MM Architect

Firm: Studio MM Architect

Marica McKeel is the proud founder of StudioMM, an architecture firm based in NYC and focused on contemporary residential design. Projects include new homes, renovations and furniture design primarily in New York’s Hudson Valley. Marica finds inspiration by surrounding herself with creative people, collaborating with her clients, and forging strong working relationships with her contractors.

Business Benefits of Doing the Right Thing

Antoinette Bunkley
Senior Associate and Senior Project Manager, CO Architects

Firm: CO Architects

Antoinette Bunkley has over 30 years of experience and is a senior project manager with CO Architects in Los Angeles. Her knowledge is informed by a diverse range of projects for public and private institutions, private biosciences and biotechnology companies, with a particular emphasis on higher-education campus environments.

The Birds + Bees of Post-Pandemic Branding

Emily Soccorsy
CEO and Co-Founder, Root + River

Firm: Root + River
Book: Rooting Up: Essays on Modern Branding

Emily Soccorsy believes branding is how people experience your soul. As co-founder and CEO of Root + River, a brand strategy team, Emily uses her talents to help leaders uncover the foundations of their brand: message, audience, differentiators, and overall brand strategy. Working with national and international clients, Emily loves to challenge dogmatic thinking, infuse art into strategy and encourage leaders to go inward. A former journalist and publisher, she is the co-author of the book, Rooting Up: Essays on Modern Branding, and holds a master’s degree in nonfiction writing. She’s mom to two teenage daughters, and partner to her husband of over 20 years.

Pretty Good House

Emily Mottram
Principal / Architect, Mottram Architecture
Co-Author, Pretty Good House (Taunton Press)

Firm: Mottram Architecture

Emily Mottram is an architect and principal of Mottram Architecture and co-author of Pretty Good House: A Guide To Creating Better Homes. She is a building science educator, co-host on “The BS & Beer Show” and hosts a monthly podcast “E3 – Energy and Efficiency with Emily,” focusing on building science, architecture and female entrepreneurship.

Michael Maines
Principal, Michael Maines Residential Design
Co-Author, Pretty Good House (Taunton Press)

Firm: Maines Design

Michael Maines designs homes and renovations that follow the Pretty Good House approach. He shares building science knowledge through writing and The BS* + Beer Show (*building science) and is co-author of the Pretty Good House book. He and his wife live on a 192-year-old farm in Maine.

Web: Pretty Good House
Book: Pretty Good House: A Guide To Creating Better Homes

Mental Wealth: How Improving Your Mental Health Can Promote Financial Wealth (Keynote)

Joyce Marter
Keynote Speaker, Licensed Psychotherapist, Entrepreneur, Author & Mental Health Thought Leader
Joyce Marter Enterprises, Inc.

Web: Joyce Marter
Book: The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life

Joyce Marter is a psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and mental health thought leader specializing in the psychology of money. She pens the Mental Wealth blog on Psychology Today and is the author of The Financial Mindset Fix. Marter is often featured in media, including outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN and MTV.

Stix + Brix Model Building Break

Matt and Kenia Forget
Owners, 5 Architecture and Stix + Brix

Firm: 5 Architecture
Web: Stix + Brix

We have created two separate ways to bring exciting and engaging architecture to our community. Through 5 Architecture, our professional practice, we provide our clients with an intimate architect-client relationship and connect with our community through the development of projects in the commercial and residential sectors. Our family-life and events have brought us to create Stix + Brix, a creative place for children to explore architecture. Our youngest demographic that we reach, holds the potential to create an exciting future in architecture and we hope to help them discover creativity of their own.

Context & Clarity Conversation

Jeff Echols
Vice-President of Community Development, EntreArchitect

Web: EntreArchitect
Group: The EntreArchitect Community Private Facebook Group
Podcast: Context & Clarity Podcast
Podcast: Build Your Brand

Jeff Echols is on a mission to reposition struggling architects from the role of service provider or order taker to trusted and valued advisor. He’s the Vice-President of Community Development at EntreArchitect, host of Build Your Brand podcast, and co-host of the daily live-stream show, Context & Clarity. Jeff works with architecture firms on branding, communication, leadership, marketing, and business development strategies based on nearly 30 years of experience working in, starting, and managing architecture firms.

Katharine MacPhail
CEO, Demios Architects

Firm: Demios Architects
Podcast: Context & Clarity Podcast
Podcast: Talking Home Renovations with the House Maven

Katharine MacPhail is a registered architect in Massachusetts, with a MArch from SCI-Arc (1996). She has two Gabl Media podcasts; Context and Clarity with Jeff Echols and Katharine MacPhail, and Talking Home Renovations with the House Maven. Her architecture and development firm specializes in sustainable renovations to historic homes.

The 2022 EntreArchitect Honor Awards

The EntreArchitect Entrepreneur Architect Honor Award

Marica McKeel
Founder and Principal, Studio MM Architect

Firm: Studio MM Architect

The EntreArchitect Community Award

Jeff Echols
Vice-President of Community Development, EntreArchitect

Web: EntreArchitect
Group: The EntreArchitect Community Private Facebook Group
Podcast: Context & Clarity Podcast
Podcast: Build Your Brand

The EntreArchitect Lifetime Achievement Award

Steve L. Wintner
Founder and Principal, Management Consulting Services

Web: Management Consulting Services

Management Consulting Services is an Austin area-based firm specializing in professional design firm management. Steve L. Wintner, AIA Emeritus’ professional career spans eight decades, during which he has attained a wide breadth of experience in a diversity of professional design firm management subjects. He has been a licensed architect since 1968, with NCARB certification and registrations in California, Texas, and New York.

Former vice president and director of operations for several internationally prominent architectural firms, as well as managing partner of his own small, architectural firm.
Co-Author, ‘Financial Management for Design Professionals – The Path to Profitability (P2P)’
Developed a workshop entitled ‘Financial Management – The Path To Profitability’, for presentation to National, State and Local AIA components.
Collaborated with EntreArchitect founder, Mark LePage, in the development of the EntreArchitect P2P Profit Course and Workshop
Professional consultant to The AIA in the re-writing of their ‘Project Administration’ workshop.
Workshop leader for continuing education programs at national, state, and local AIA conventions from 1992-2007.
The AIA Practice Management Committee, Past Committee member – (1987-1989)
The AIA Practice Management Committee, Past Chairperson, (1989)
Charter member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Project Managers.
Guest lecturer at the University of Houston, Department of Architecture.
Author of 3 of the 4 Sub-Chapters of Chapter 7–Financial Management for the 2014 AIA Professional Handbook of Practice
Author of the chapter on ‘Project Fee Budgeting’ in New Directions in Architecture & Engineering Practice, and the chapter on ‘Architectural Accounting Systems’ in The Encyclopedia of Accounting.
Author of a monologue of 12 articles, entitled ‘Management Tools’, focusing on the issues of professional design firm management.
Mr. Wintner’s firm provides consulting services to a regional clientele.
Education: The University of California, Berkeley – 1964

Day 2 Speakers

Why Financial Statements Are (Mostly) Useless – And What To Do Instead

Megan Dahle
Owner, Megan Dahle, CFO

Web: Megan Dahle, CFO

Megan Dahle is a CFO and self-proclaimed antiaccountant. After earning her Masters of Professional Accountancy she spent the next 18 years questioning the usefulness of financial statements and instead built tools and frameworks to show owners what’s really going on in their businesses. Megan enjoys bridge, gardening, and breaking things.

Leading The Witness

Christopher A. Eckmann
Owner, Switchboard Learning

Web: Switchboard Learning

Possessing over 15 years of sales experience, Chris understands the ins and outs of sales operations and techniques in a way matched by few. As a proven sales expert, specializing in lead generation techniques and best practices, Chris regularly guides his clients in sales strategy and implementation. Utilizing his intense knowledge of inside sales, coupled with his passion for teaching, Chris specializes in training how to ”Lead The Witness” through prospecting, while encouraging them to think outside the box. Not your average run-of-the-mill sales trainer, Chris offers proven methods in a unique and captivating teaching style.

Strategic Planning Made Simple (Interactive Workshop)

Bryon McCartney
Chief Creative Strategist, Archmark Branding & Marketing for Architects

Web: Archmark

Bryon McCartney is Chief Creative Strategist at Archmark Branding and Marketing for Architects and has helped 2,000+ architects increase their firm’s visibility and influence and win better projects. Bryon is also the lead instructor at SEOforArchitects.com, and a contributor to Business of Architecture, Entrearchitect, Monograph, and many others.

Transforming the Practice of Architecture

Evelyn Lee
Owner, Practice of Architecture

Web: Practice of Architecture
Podcast: Practice Disrupted

Evelyn Lee, FAIA, NOMA, is the founder of Practice of Architecture and co-host of its podcast, Practice Disrupted. The Practice of Architecture is a coaching and consulting practice that helps individuals and firms identify opportunities for leadership and growth, building careers & practices that prosper in today’s changing world.

Je’Nen Chastain
Founder, Apostrophe Consulting

Web: Apostrophe Consulting
Podcast: Practice Disrupted

Je’Nen M. Chastain, MBA, Assoc. AIA is the founder of Apostrophe Consulting, a practice focused on helping architects and next-gen leaders strengthen their teams and businesses. She is a co-host of the podcast Practice Disrupted, a show that explores the evolution of architectural practice through conversations with industry thought leaders.

Disruptive Technologies in Architecture, and You

Evan Troxel
Architectural Community Director, Tect.com

Web: Tect.com
Podcasts: TRXL
Presentation: Evan’s Deck

An industry-leading design and technology expert with a passion for connecting people, Evan is a licensed architect and the architectural community director at Tect. Previous to Tect, he was the director of digital practice at HMC Architects where he led the strategy and digital transformation of the 80-year-old firm.

The Role of Routine

Randy Wilburn
Chief Encourager, Encourage Build Grow

Web: Encourage Build Grow

Podcast communication strategist and trainer Randy Wilburn is the founder of Encourage Build Grow, a firm dedicated to helping companies develop leaders and broadcast engaging podcasts. Randy welcomes opportunities to share his podcasting prowess across many verticals and has worked with design firms, engineers and architects, for more than two decades. Under Randy’s guidance, these clients have created and launched internal podcast projects and brand-building customer-facing podcasts.

Power of Place: How Where We Live is Foundational for Healthy Longevity (Keynote)

Ryan Frederick
CEO, Here

Web: SmartLiving 360 (Here)
Book: Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life

COVID-19 has obscured one of the megatrends of our time: increasing longevity. Pandemics aside, an increasing lifespan – particularly true for those with a college degree and some financial resources – is a probabilistic reality with some researchers expecting additional scientific breakthroughs over the next decade. However, a long life is of little value without a correspondingly long life of health (“healthspan”) and of wealth (“wealthspan”). Foundational for living a successful long life – one that is long, healthy and financially secure – is where we call home. Where we live impacts purpose, social interaction, physical well-being, financial well-being and more. Architects have an outsized role in helping clients understand and leverage the power of place for greater personal and societal benefits. Leaning on his bestselling book, Right Place, Right Time, Ryan Frederick’s keynote talk and following interactive Q&A will cover the tenets of healthy longevity, unpack what we mean by “place” and identify what we can do personally and professionally to live and create places for people to flourish over an increasingly long life.

Context & Clarity Live

Co-hosts Jeff Echols and Katharine MacPhail with Ryan Frederick

Group: The EntreArchitect Community Private Facebook Group

Q&A with keynote speaker and author Ryan Frederick. Live in-person conversation live-streaming on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Twitch

Team TEACAM22

Host: Mark R. LePage
Emcee: Jeff Echols
Program Director: Jennifer Castenson
Event Director: Dawn Porta
Photographer: Scott LePage

Support Team:

Katharine MacPhail
Chris Novelli
LaShaun Key
Justin Wagoner
Jessica Christensen
Olga Kudrina
Justin Towart

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