Latoya Nelson Kamdang's guest appearances

Latoya Nelson Kamdang

Design Voice Podcast

Best Practice Fireside Chats

George Valdes

Daniel Davis

Tom Jacobs

Jerry Garcia

Marc Teer

Mark LePage

Michael Hsu

Evelyn Lee

Amy Baker

Chris Morgan

Olson Kundig

Christine Williamson

Alex Wilson

Alan Maskin

Sarah Hughes

OwlTail

Latoya Nelson

Moody Nolan

Launching an office in a new city requires a solid operations team and a structured plan for growth. Moody Nolan’s New York City office started with four people just over a year ago and now it has 20. The secret to that fast success? Delivering high-quality projects to the clients you have. It’s the best marketing tool to achieve steady growth. In this Best Practice interview, Associate Principal and Director of NY Operations Latoya Nelson Kamdang and Senior Associate and Project Manager Dawne David-Pierre talked to us about launching operations in New York City and how they’ve grown with excellence.Interview Takeaways Focus on the clients you have Involve PMs from the beginning Approach each client individually Offer diversity to a big city Let the larger firm support you Justify staff growth Hire senior-level employees first Merge design into a business Use office time to learn each other’s processes Collaborate in person Share clients and talent across offices Communicate when clients’ values are misaligned with yours Show Links Connect with Latoya Nelson Kamdang on LinkedIn  Connect with Dawne David-Pierre on LinkedIn  Check out Moody Nolan  Connect with George Valdes on LinkedIn or Twitter  Connect with Chris Morgan on LinkedIn  Check out Monograph  Follow Monograph on LinkedIn or Instagram   Listen and read more about Monograph 

Launching an office in a new city requires a solid operations team and a structured plan for growth. Moody Nolan’s New York City office started with four people just over a year ago and now it has 20. The secret to that fast success? Delivering high-quality projects to the clients you have. It’s the best marketing tool to achieve steady growth. In this Best Practice interview, Associate Principal and Director of NY Operations Latoya Nelson Kamdang and Senior Associate and Project Manager Dawne David-Pierre talked to us about launching operations in New York City and how they’ve grown with excellence.Interview Takeaways<ul> <li>Focus on the clients you have</li> <li>Involve PMs from the beginning</li> <li>Approach each client individually</li> <li>Offer diversity to a big city</li> <li>Let the larger firm support you</li> <li>Justify staff growth</li> <li>Hire senior-level employees first</li> <li>Merge design into a business</li> <li>Use office time to learn each other’s processes</li> <li>Collaborate in person</li> <li>Share clients and talent across offices</li> <li>Communicate when clients’ values are misaligned with yours</li> </ul>Show Links<ul> <li>Connect with Latoya Nelson Kamdang on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ltnelson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> </li> <li>Connect with Dawne David-Pierre on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawne-david-pierre-aia-noma-ncarb-leed-ap-2944a11/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> </li> <li>Check out <a href="http://moodynolan.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moody Nolan</a> </li> <li>Connect with George Valdes on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgevaldes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/georgevaldes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> </li> <li>Connect with Chris Morgan on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-morgan-488a54193/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> </li> <li>Check out <a href="https://monograph.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monograph</a> </li> <li>Follow Monograph on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/monograph/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> or<a href="https://www.instagram.com/monographhq/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://monograph.io/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen and read more</a> about Monograph </li></ul>

Moody Nolan: How To Launch Operations in NYC (w/ Latoya Nelson Kamdang, Dawne David-Pierre)