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FOR $1M TO $20m ARCHITECTURE FIRM OWNERS
If you own an architecture firm in Philadelphia and you're still carrying every fee decision and every drawing review yourself, you're in the right place. I'm Franne McNeal. I coach architecture firm owners to build practices that make real money, run without the principal in every meeting, and become worth more when it's time to transition.
I work with architecture firm owners and principals across the US and Canada, in the $1M to $20M range, including right here in Philadelphia. People who have a strong design reputation, margins that swing or stay thin, and too many decisions routed through one or two people.
Great projects, a portfolio you're proud of, and profit per partner that doesn't match the quality of the work. Principals reviewing every set and every fee. A practice that stalls the minute the founder steps back.
We protect the design quality that built your name, then put real studio leadership underneath it. Clearer decision rights for your project architects. Fee discipline so the good work actually pays. Utilization targets your team can hit.
No. I work with architecture firms in the $1M to $20M range, from small studios to multi-principal practices.
Yes. Most owners come to me for profit and leadership problems, not a sale. Building firm value gives you options later.
No. The point is to protect the design reputation you built while fixing the economics underneath it. When the fee structure and studio leadership are right, the design and the margins both improve.
I coach over Zoom and in person. I'm based in Bryn Mawr and work across the Philadelphia region and throughout the US and Canada.
About Franne McNeal and Significant Business Results
Franne McNeal is President of Significant Business Results LLC, a Certified Value Builder Advisor, and the former leader of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. She holds a BA from Princeton, an MBA from Eastern University, and an MSBR from Temple University, and has advised AEC owners for 35+ years.
Founded in 2006, based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Recognized by the Tory Burch Foundation and featured by ABC, NBC, AP, NPR, Yahoo, and The Washington Post.
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