Terrence Stapleton says good leaders listen, ask questions and include diverse voices.
Pouring beer and waiting tables during uni, Terrence Stapleton would never have dreamed of his fabulous future career. Now he’s a successful landscape architect leading TCL’s Sydney studio, with rich, complex projects all over Australia.
Terrence reveals how he learnt to be confident in his own strengths, champion his team and curate diverse voices to get the best results.
Find out how to hold your own when your client has 20 years more experience and keep your cool when fighting to save trees on an infrastructure project. Plus, ways to flip the script at your next design review panel.
Show Notes
- 2:03 Curating the Sydney studio
- 3:53 Why empathy is the cornerstone of design
- 6:16 A story of scorched earth
- 9:08 Avoid being smacked down in a DRP
- 11:48 Customer service can help your design career
- 14:18 Captain Planet to the rescue!
- 16:49 Walk before your talk
- 19:10 Embrace your hosting era
- 21:40 Learnings from the Fox and Ferret
- 24:28 Diversity and inclusion in architecture
- 26:53 Calling out bad behaviour in meetings
- 28:22 When good presentations go bad
- 30:43 Advice for young leaders
- 31:51 What young Terrence wishes he’d known
Dig Beneath Design: Terrence Stapleton says good leaders listen, ask questions and include diverse voices.
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