If you’re familiar with Build Yourself, you know that we’re a community of women in design careers looking to unleash our potential to excel in our careers.

So today I want to let you in on what the great women of Build Yourself are doing.

I want to introduce you to a few women in design who, since working with me, have created amazing opportunities for themselves and reached significant career goals.

These women are ambitious go-getters who are using their unique voices to advance their careers and make an impact on their local communities.

Bianca Koenig

Bianca Koenig, Director of Landscape Architecture at Wallace Group, is the first woman to hold that role in the history of the department. She stepped into the leadership role with the support of Build Yourself coaching. She’s not only secured significant projects for the firm’s landscape architecture practice, but also led the firm’s leadership team through the study and practice of Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead skill sets which help people take on “fear, feelings, and courage” in their leadership practice.

Cali Pfaff

Landscape architect Cali Pfaff has just launched her own design firm, Studio Campo, focused on plant-driven design.

Kristin Kelsey

Kristin Kelsey just joined Signal Architecture as an Interior Architect and Operations Manager where she will strengthen the firm’s capacities in designing beautiful human-centered interiors and their operational systems. She’ll be kicking off work with a railway museum and a strategic visioning workshop. This is a position she landed while in Build Yourself’s Next Level Program.

Sreoshy Banerjea

Sreoshy Banerjea is developing a Creative RFP toolkit to help architects and urban planners more effectively respond to design RFPs, communicate their value, and use storytelling to amplify their RFP response.

Irene Boland Nielson

Irene Boland Nielson, City Strategist at the American Cities Challenge (NRDC), is helping six mid-sized cities across the US achieve their carbon reduction goals, providing a roadmap for other cities to reduce emissions.

Ivette Batista

Ivette Batista, an architect and Associate at Stantec New Haven, is challenging the stereotype that “women do charity and men do business” by promoting equal opportunities for business and volunteer activities.

Sarai Williams

Sarai Williams, a landscape architectural designer at OLIN, is facilitating the Penn Abroad Global Engagement Internship, bringing students to Nicaragua, Botswana, and South Africa to use human-centered design to address global challenges.

Amanda Loper

Amanda Loper, Principal at David Baker Architects Birmingham, will design all service buildings for CityWALK Bham, a new park in downtown Birmingham.

These are just a few examples of women in design careers who are making an impact.

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