Building and Running a Successful Hybrid Practice By Evelyn Lee, FAIA   Date: Thursday, May 27, 2021 Time: 06:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Duration: 1 hour AIA: 1.0 LU   Description In the blink of an eye, the way firms worked changed overnight. Now there’s no snapping back, and people’s expectations around how and where they work have changed. Many firms are just beginning to navigate and understand what they need to create a successful practice that allows their employees the flexibility they desire while remaining productive and profitable. This course highlights operations, processes, policies, and tools to help individuals become better advocates for a more flexible workplace and help firm leaders understand the areas in their businesses that they need to adapt to build and run a successful hybrid practice.

Evelyn Lee, FAIA, is the first ever Senior Experience Designer at Slack Technologies, Founder of the Practice of Architecture, and Co-Host on the Podcast, Practice Disrupted. Lee seamlessly integrates her business and architecture background with a qualitative and quantitative focus to build better experiences for organization's employees, clients, and guests. She is widely published, wrote a monthly column for Contract magazine for over 3 years, and now is a frequent contributor to Architect Magazine. Evelyn has received numerous industry awards including the 2016 40 Under 40 award for Building Design + Construction and the 2014 AIA National Young Architects Award. She currently serves as the first ever female Treasurer to the AIA National Board in 2020-2021.

Learning Objective 1 Understand the importance of creating a values-based culture that fosters engagement and productivity, even when people are not in the office. Learning Objective 2 Create operations and structures that allow individuals to get work done no matter where they are, hold meaningful meetings, and enable self-management. Learning Objective 3 Explore new ways of working, team building, and innovating with a distributed workforce to make a hybrid practice work. Learning Objective 4 Recognize the common problems and stumbling blocks of hybrid practice and how to anticipate and avoid potential difficulties.   Cost: AIA LI Member Free AIA Member $10 Non AIA Member $20

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