Wearing Too Many Hats? How Architects Delegate for Success

What You’ll Learn

• ✅ The Architect’s Burden – Balancing marketing, clients, design, and operations
• ✅ What & When to Delegate – Repetitive tasks vs. core creative work
• ✅ From Concept to Completion – Building a reliable design team for drafting, modeling & documentation
• ✅ Tech for Architects – Leveraging BIM, project management & automation tools
• ✅ Elevating Design & Quality Control – Establishing clear standards & review processes
• ✅ From Architect to Firm Leader – Transitioning to a leadership role for firm success

Meet the Speaker: Lance O’Donnell

Architect Lance O’Donnell enjoys a lifelong connection to California living. His Palm Springs office, o2 Architecture, is dedicated to discovering the essence of place. As a Board of Director at AIA California Desert Chapter (AIACDC), Lance actively contributes to the architectural community, shaping discussions on sustainability and design excellence.

With over a dozen AIA Honor and Merit Awards, his work engages the senses and intellect with a poetic connection to site and ecologically crafted modernism. Sustainable design is a process explored as a continuous thread woven throughout the design and construction process.

Embedded in this thread are immersive explorations into the aspirations of people and ecology of place. Embracing the dynamic daily and seasonal patterns of place affords o2 Architecture an opportunity to value the past while allowing discovery, resiliency, and culture to inform environmental change