Co-Founder and Partner | office42
Stephanie founded office42 with her husband, Benjamin Ragle in 2007 on this premise: Good design should be available to all. She co-leads office42 in designing modern homes and creative additions, creating elegant new restaurants and innovative commercial offices, helping non-profits expand, and working with city agencies to end homelessness. She is active in the community through her involvement with the Girls Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, and Would Works, an economic empowerment retail operation.
Stephanie holds a MArch from SciArc in LA and a BArch from Cal Poly SLO.
Courses
The Art of Collaboration & Getting Things Done
This session focuses on how A+D founders and leaders create their own culture with impactful design, and how this is nurtured by design teams, leadership styles, new ways of working, and even, ownership transitions. Join Think-Time Tuesdays host, and SO|arch founder Elisabeth Sporer, AIA CIC for a presentation on design culture that energizes the business of design.
Elisabeth provides an overview of the influencing factors of an office culture from the founder’s values and its impact on client and project selection to the way staff is hired, trained and mentored and how projects are executed in a hybrid work environment. Then Elisabeth is joined in conversation by Los Angeles-based A+D firm leaders Karin Liljegren [Omgvining], Georgina Huljich [P-A-T-T-T-E-R-N-S], Stephanie Ragle [office42], and Monika Haefelfinger [XTEN], who share stories that other founders and leaders of small studios and midsized firms in particular will find useful, on these topics:
- Applied values: Design culture manifested in client selection and project work
- Design teams: Growing the firm
- New ways of working: Collaboration in hybrid mode
- Leadership: Training, mentoring, and ownership transitions
Course expires 03/23/2025