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📣CALLING LOCAL STUDENTS! 📣

Join NEWH AC/Philly for an empowering workshop designed exclusively for students of architecture and interior design. Whether you’re looking to enhance your confidence, improve your communication skills, or build a meaningful network, this session will give you the tools to succeed!

Sadie Maney, business development and strategic planning leader for design firms, explores what it truly means to build an intentional network through an interactive workshop.

Participants will gain practical tools to:
🏅Cultivate Confidence: Overcome self-doubt and present yourself with poise in any networking situation.
💫 Maintain Effective Conversations: Keep interactions purposeful and engaging to leave a lasting impression.
🤝🏼 Master Body Language: Leverage non-verbal communication to reinforce your message.
🧠 Build an Intentional Network: Identify and connect with individuals who can support personal and professional growth.
❤️‍🩹 Manage Rejection and Insecurities: Turn setbacks into opportunities for learning and growth.

Sadie Maney is a Business Development Leader at DLR Group, shaping strategic growth and advancing high-value client partnerships across the Northeast higher education market. With over a decade in the design industry, she drives complex pursuits, strengthens market position, and aligns institutional priorities with firm capabilities to deliver transformative capital programs. Her cross-sector expertise spans higher education, performing arts, museums, commercial real estate, hospitality, and healthcare.

Recognized for building intentional networks that create measurable value, Sadie leverages relationships to influence decision-making, open new markets, and generate sustainable impact. She founded Made Business, advising organizations on strategy, marketing, and business development operations to improve positioning and win rates, and she leads WWIRE Philadelphia, a network connecting women across the design and construction industry to advance careers and foster meaningful connections.

She brings an outcomes-driven approach to relationship building, grounded in the belief that clarity, consistency, authenticity, and self-awareness are critical to sustained business development success.

For any event questions about this student-only event, please reach out to Amy McGee at [email protected]

Fair market value of this event is $21. Please retain this receipt for tax purposes. Check with your accountant to determine if this can be considered a business expense or charitable contribution.

NEWH/AC-Philly Region and NEWH, Inc. invite you to attend this event solely at your own risk. Measures will be taken to comply with all applicable health and safety directives, but by attending the event you assume any and all risks associated with your attendance, including without limitation, exposure to the COVID-19 and other health and safety risks.

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