30fg Business Podcast For Designers

Rikki owns an interdisciplinary practice with a base team of interior and graphic designers that expands and contracts through collaboration with external consultants and suppliers depending on the project. In this interview you’ll find out how you could keep your options open as far as project work goes, by adopting a collaborative approach to doing business. Also how keeping a little bit of distance between you and the details of your work can help to empower your team and give you the opportunity to keep the work coming in. Rikki shares her experience of shifting from being an employee to actually becoming the owner of the business she worked for and walks us step by step through the process she uses in determining, negotiating and clarifying roles in collaborative circumstances.