Discover where in your design business practice you need help and learn a new path to creating more income and free time by utilizing high quality professionals to complete specific non-design tasks. Create more billable time and happiness in your life by doing what you enjoy most… designing!

• Learn how to hire experts to perform specific tasks they need within limited and defined hours.

• Understand the difference between sub-contractors and employees and the advantages and responsibilities of each.

• Discover the huge internal cost of trying to do it all themselves VS the financial and time benefits of developing a strong “back room” team.

**A virtual meeting link will be sent to participants the morning of the event**

Speaker:

Terri Taylor, ASID, IDS

President and Creative Director

Interior Design Business Academy

Taylor Design Group

Terri Taylor is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at design conferences and showrooms throughout the country. She speaks on a number of topics related to the business of interior design, including: business practices, sales, marketing, motivation, leadership, success and personal growth.

Ms. Taylor is nationally known as an interior design business expert and coach who teaches and mentors interior designers to help them create successful design businesses.

Design Background

Terri has over 32 years in the interior design and construction business. She holds both residential and commercial general remodeling Arizona Contractors Licenses, and qualified for her NCIDQ certification in 1991. Terri is a professional member of ASID, IDS and NCIDQ.

Her Tucson-based design studio, Taylor Design Group, was a diversified design practice working in the areas of high-end residential design and remodeling, model home merchandising, hospitality and medical and professional offices. Her studio has been the recipient of ASID Arizona South Chapter Design Excellence Awards every year since 1986 and she received the ASID National Design Excellence Award in 2000. Terri’s design work has been published in regional and national design journals, including ASID ICON and Wall St. Journal. Terri retired from her studio practice in 2015.

In 2009, Ms. Taylor created Design Biz Blueprint (now Interior Design Business Academy); an education and coaching resource that provides a unique mix of design business strategies and systems, and powerful positive mindset to help interior designers create meaningful success. She’s inspired thousands of interior design entrepreneurs through her speaking engagements, seminars, on-line education and coaching.

Terri connects with heart-centered designers to help grow their business strategy, accountability, and profitability all while undergoing a beautiful personal transformation.