Women in Architecture Virtual Workshop: The Promoted to Principal Method

Are you interested in becoming a principal or partner at your firm, or even principal-curious? Do you wonder what the path to principal is, what it takes to be chosen, and how to even decide if it’s what you want? After the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee's "Path to Principal" panel on November 2, the committee is offering a follow-up virtual workshop with Maya Sharfi, design industry career coach, strategist, and founder of Build Yourself. In this training, you will learn how to position yourself for principal or partner and how to create a step-by-step promotion plan to leadership. You’ll learn about the unwritten rules of navigating to leadership (even if you don’t think you’re one of the ‘chosen ones!’) and how to get recognized for your value inside and outside your company. If you want more from your career, but have wondered how to get there, or have been waiting to be promoted, or if you know you have more to contribute but worry about how to balance a leadership role with a vibrant life outside of work, this session is for you!

Speaker:
Maya Sharfi, Founder, Build Yourself

About the Speaker:
Maya Sharfi is a career coach and strategist, and the founder of Build Yourself. She helps women in design, tech and innovation move from doing the work to setting the agenda. Her clients achieve results like moving into senior director roles, launching new, innovative programs, and achieving $25,000 raises. She aids women in moving past bias and making their industries and workplaces better places for women's talent. Maya has trained national industry groups like Women in Innovation, and the American Institute of Architects, and works with leadership and staff at global design and innovation companies such as Stantec, Gensler and HOK. She's a former Harvard Innovation Lab resident, ran a research effort on women in social impact design for the Harvard Business School, and was named as one of Impact Design Hub’s Social Impact Design 40 under 40. She's a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

This event is offered virtually; you will receive an email with a Zoom link to access the program.