Business surgeries |
Programme Page one - a description of the individual(s) and their background and a clear description of the business These surgery sessions will be run by Rachel Smart a management consultant for creative businesses. Rachel's background is a degree in design, director of a large architectural practice and an MBA before setting up her own business. Target audience |
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professional business design |
Programme This course will be run by Rachel Smart a management consultant for creative businesses. Rachel's background is a degree in design, director of a large architectural practice and an MBA before setting up her own business. Target audience |
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Rachel Smart |
Rachel Smart Limited is a management consultancy providing services specifically for creative organisations from start up through growth and maturity. The service is based on individual company needs and requirements from short consultations on specific issues through to long term developemnt. Founder Rachel Smart trained as a designer for 5 years, spending a year of that time on a building site as a labourer, eventually becoming company secretary and director of a leading London architectural practice. Her work there covered the administration of the organisation including strategy, marketing, human resources and finances, during this time profits were raised to 30% of turnover. While working Rachel completed a distance learning MBA at Durham University Business School combining 3 years of academic learning along side the reality of practice before leaving to set up Rachel Smart Limited. Rachel combines her business with teaching professional practice to academic and design institutions and is completing a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, School of Management and Organizational Psychology. The consultancy aims to give clients creative freedom combined with good practice and financial management to allow creative people to run their businesses with greater profits and less stress towards their ultimate goal. |
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