Richard N. Swett, FAIA, Swett Associates Inc., Bow, N.H.

      Effective leaders cultivate skills to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Use your design knowledge to great effect-from influencing powerful politicians to serving in public office to becoming a community activist. We’ll address how design leadership brings greater value to society, explain their leadership objectives, and detail the strategies used to achieve their desired outcome.

Learning objectives:

• Develop leadership skills using design processes to enable wider engagement and partnership development with community stakeholders; find the route to leadership from a variety of vantage points
• Recognize unmet design needs in your community/field of influence and identify key issues and opportunities through which successful relationships can be built among you, your practice, and the community
• Cultivate leadership potential by acquiring and honing advocacy skills and share leadership experiences among peers.