APRIL 2025CONSTRUCTIONBUSINESSREVIEW.COM8IN MYOPINIONBy Sara Marlow, Director of Architecture, CSM CorporationMs. Marlow is an Architect with over 20 years of experience across the Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Hospitality, and Multi-Family sectors. Before her work at CSM, she was Director of Architecture for SitelogIQ, an Architectural Property Development manager at BestBuy, and has had positions at several local Minneapolis Architecture firms. She has worked with internal and external Construction teams and managed projects through all construction phases. Throughout her career, she has worked on setting and maintaining company standards to reduce issues related to project documentation. Ms. Marlow serves on the State of Arizona Enforcement Advisory Committee and is a registered architect in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado.Through this article, Marlow highlights the need for a balance between the reliance on history and process and the pursuit of progress within the architecture industry.I want to argue for a change in how we approach leadership as an industry. It's a topic that isn't comfortable for a lot of people. What I have found in my career is that leadership is an incredibly personal process. It's not like sitting down to work in Revit, where the same result can pop out for everyone with the right set of standards. Every leader is different, and I will say personally that I strive to lead in a way that reflects how I want to be led. This is the people side of how you lead, what you want to put out into the world, and how you interact with MAKING A CASE FOR YOUNG LEADERSHIP
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