Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture | Tania Ihlenfeld

Welcome to ‘Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture’ a podcast by SB Architects. This series will narrate honest conversations with women in design and delve deeper into what it means to be a woman in architecture.  Jeanette Hoffman, Associate at SB Architects, will be your host. We're extremely excited to introduce you to this incredible series, where we have the honor of chatting with some of the biggest and best names in the business.  Today’s guest is Tania Ihlenfeld, CEO & Founder of Ede Enablers.Tania is a pragmatic visionary with more than twenty-three years of experience leading and innovating for award-winning practices in the UK and Australia. Including almost 13 years with Grimshaw, London. She is on a mission to make our built environment more responsible for its impact and more responsive to human and natural environment needs.Tania’s passions as an architect, entrepreneur, and author are the relentless pursuit of effective leadership, design excellence, developing others, and changing who gets to innovate.Tania led the team on the visionary Heathrow Expansion project in her previous role as Associate Principal at Grimshaw, where she spent almost 13 years. Show Notes/Links:Ede Enablers: https://www.edeenablers.com/Tania's Book 'BUILD SUCCESS: Leadership that Engages, Disrupts & Delivers Transformational Projects': AmazonLinkedIn: Tania IhlenfeldInstagram: Tania Ihlenfeld ProfileTania champions a leadership approach that is focused on cultivating effective teams, embracing fast failure, and ultimately leading with greater clarity, confidence, and ease.Through cultivating a community of built environment experts she wants to enable more diverse voices at the table, broader expertise to be recognized, and for collaboration to spark the right kind of innovation necessary for project success.She's led high-profile, complex infrastructure projects over a career spanning more than 23 years. Most notably, she spearheaded a 100-strong, multi-disciplinary team for the Heathrow Expansion Programme, leading its growth and development from a talented team of seven. She's a leader who consistently optimizes team performance, advocates for collaborative working, and seeks innovation opportunities to improve the physical and commercial effectiveness of projects. She's worked in both the UK and Australia collaborating with global brands and companies, including Heathrow Airport, HS2, Network Rail, and The Wimbledon All England Tennis Club, as well as a host of small and mid-size businesses and institutions. She's highly skilled in strategic planning, project lifecycle and delivery, and motivating large, multi-disciplinary teams to become greater than the sum of their individuals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.