The Pride Road Architects Podcast

ABOUT TOKS ARUOTURE

Toks Aruoture is a creator of high-end nursery rooms and the founder of The Baby Cot Shop in Chelsea, London. As a mindset strategist, she enables entrepreneurial women play bigger by helping them to identify limiting beliefs. Toks believes that the most valuable tools for exponential growth are the unique abilities each person carries, but having the wrong...

In this episode of "Architecture in the den," host Lisa Raynes, CEO of Pride Road, interviews architecture student Rachel Murphy about her experience with the Erasmus study abroad program at KU Leuven in Belgium. Rachel shares her interests in theatre, community, and conservation, and how she hopes to use her education to make a positive impact. This podcast is part of Pride Road's mission to support and empower architects and busi...

Shannon Hughes is a consultant and facilitator with a calling to nurture 'people first' company culture in small and medium sized firms. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she brings strategic business mentorship and experiential teaching practices to incite easeful collaboration and embolden transformational leadership. 

With 20+ years of corporate marketing and HR strategy experience, plus a lifetime of proven leadership, perfor...

Peter Jackson, managing director at Seddon

Peter Jackson is managing director at Seddon and has worked in the construction industry for over 20 years. With over 15 years in experience at director level, Peter is responsible for overseeing all daily operations and the performance of the business. His role also involves planning the strategic direction of Seddon, as well as further developing the company vision and positioning the ...

Kwamena Beecham is an Architect at Pilbrow & Partners, London. 

Kwamena gained his Part 1 from Plymouth university where his dissertation investigated the role of the architect in the 21st century. He continued his studies and obtained his Part 2 at Birmingham City University, where his written thesis investigated the perception of success in buildings, while testing the themes uncovered with a design thesis reintroducing a stateme...

Zafir is an Architectural Assistant at dRMM and a MArch Student at the LSA (London School of Architecture). Most recently, he was also nominated as a Student Representative on the RIBA Council.

Zafir has a passion for social justice and climate literacy, and has been involved with a large number of groups and organisations. He is a vocal member of ACAN (The Architect’s Climate Action Network), and was previously one of the Coordina...

Sandy was born to be an architect. Growing up around buildings in all stages of development with her DIY father, who sympathetically transformed their small London Victorian villa and her developer grandfather, who built much of Ruislip’s housing stock. Sandy was never far from the seeing someone’s dreams turned into designs. She was fascinated as much by the artistry as the science of building.

After studying at Bath University on...

Michele Grace Hottel, AIA I has been practicing Architecture with her namesake firm since 1994 and is licensed in the states of California and Arizona. Prior to that she worked in Architecture and Engineering firms before, during and after attending Cal Poly, Pomona for Architecture.

Ms. Hottel has been a Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Boa...

Austin Williams is course leader in the post-graduate diploma programme in Architecture and Professional Practice at Kingston School of Art in London, and Honorary Research Fellow at XJTLU University, Suzhou, China where he lived from 2011-2017. He was previously the Technical Editor of The Architects’ Journal, and China correspondent for The Architectural Review.

He is the director of the Future Cities Pr...