Playing the Long Game: BNIM’s Practice Transformation featured on AN
BNIM was recently featured in The Architect’s Newspaper recent article, “Playing the Long Game,” which highlights a collective of firms across the U.S. to understand how architecture firms are using succession planning to build sustainable futures for their practice.
Earlier this spring, AN‘s writer Jerry Elengical spoke with BNIM’s Practice Transformation team leaders Carey Nagle, James Pfeiffer, Katie Nichols, Beena Ramaswami, and BNIM’s ESOP Committee Co-Char, Carleigh Pope about the experience in becoming an employee-owned design company, and how it impacts our practice, our people, and the clients and communities we serve.
“Setting up a structure to cultivate leaders over time was one of the succession-planning goals that sparked the transition to an ESOP, explained Katie Nichols, a principal at BNIM. “One of the things we have focused on is understanding the roles that are essential for our practice to be effective and impactful, and structuring the model around them,” she said.”
“It’s part of a broader shift happening across the industry. People today have a clearer set of expectations around the workplace,” James Pfeiffer, a principal at BNIM, told AN. “They value transparency, equity, and a strong sense of shared purpose in the work we do.”