Currently a design consultant for biophilic bespoke projects and was a former studio head and associate director of a boutique firm for 7 years. Projects handled and range in Eurasia, and the Pan Pacific Region.
I believe that the connections between clients and designers are symbiotic, and vital to good design work. However the murky or unsexy details of it are often unexplained and can snowball into an irreversible damage of errors, and this is where design management comes in as a need to get the project done.