August Chapter Meeting

Rent Your Brain, Reduce the Pain:
Aligning Professional Design Skills
with Corey Klassen

As a Design Professional, you are increasingly challenged to determine the right services, fees and business structures for your design firms or studios. Designers are out priced by online services, online shopping and misunderstandings of what professional design services include. Corey Klassen will help you with identifying your skill sets, growth opportunities and client psychographics, so you can increase your creative value and apply your skills with homeowners and trade professionals.

Thursday, August 16, 2018
5:30 - 8:30 PM
Appliance Factory Fine Lines
1045 Zuni St., Denver, CO 80204
Members - $25   Non Members - $35  Students - FREE

Upon completing this program, you should be able to:
1. Identify your professional skill sets
2. Determine the skills and assets that align to your business model
3. Formulate a client profile
4. Implement strategies for professional growth

Corey is a Certified Master Kitchen & Bath Designer (CMKBD), Associate Member of the International Interior Designers Association (Assoc. IIDA), and Accredited Member of the Designers & Decorators Association of Canada (DDA Accredited). Corey comes from a long line of creatives from artists, home builders, drafters, and floral designers. At 16 years old, he completed an internship in a Winnipeg Architecture firm and worked in CAD for the first time. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (B.F.A.) from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, he completed his Interior Design (Dipl. KBD) studies with distinction in Vancouver from an NKBA-Accredited College. He has created production designs for malls and vendors, worked in luxury furnishings and home decor, and kitchen & bath sales.

Since starting the design studio in 2011, he has won multiple international awards for his design work and has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, Globe & Mail, Vancouver Sun, Gray Magazine, Homes & Design Magazine, and more.