Management Consultants
Michael S. Bernard / Virtual Practice Consulting
Michael S. Bernard has built a career upon successful project and firm management. Through his firm, Virtual Practice Consulting, he acts as mentor and monitor, serving in the capacity of consulting managing principal for small design firms that do not have one. He is capable of addressing operations issues that affect the everyday life of the small design practice: development of revenue models, development of fee projections, the review and preparation of contracts, fees and schedules, the mentoring of senior staff to foster their development as effective project managers. Michael’s range of clients includes the allied disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and construction.
Clark Kellogg / Collective Invention
Clark Kellogg is a partner with Erika Gregory, Arnold Wasserman, and Fiona Hovenden in Collective Invention, which inspires novel responses to complex problems in business as well as pressing local, national and global social issues. Clark focuses his work around hybrid uses of design strategy in communication, new media, organizational leadership, and facility design and planning.
David Meckel, FAIA / Meckel (Design) Consulting
An expert in campus and institutional planning and development, David Meckel, FAIA, was architecture and design coordinator for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He founded the interior design program at Otis Parsons and the architecture program at California College of the Arts (CCA), where he is currently Director of Research & Planning. He is, as well, Campus Architect for the University of the Pacific. David has served as the professional advisor for architectural competitions for the Contra Costa County Civic Center, the Mississippi Riverfront in Memphis, Habitat for Humanity in Charlottesville and SFMOMA’s new Rooftop Sculpture Garden. In their December 2007 issue, 7×7 Magazine named him one of the 49 Most Influential People in San Francisco. You may reach him at dmeckel@cca.edu.
Michael Strogoff / Strogoff Consulting
Michael Strogoff, AIA, has advised many of the nation’s most successful architectural, engineering and interior design firms, managed large and complex projects over a 25 year career, led firms through successful mergers, acquisitions and internal transitions, and negotiated hundreds of agreements on behalf of design professionals. Strogoff Consulting provides practice management, leadership development, ownership transition, mergers & acquisitions, and negotiation services. At the core of their services is bringing people and interests together in creative and collaborative ways.