My courses suit anyone with the desire to study design and business management at a professional level. They are for creatives with the need to build strength or add knowledge in specific areas of design practice, for anyone who wants relevant, content-rich and concise business strategies.  

All subjects are taught from first principles, all courses are beginner-friendly leading to professional level skills, and all courses include professional shortcuts - the hacks relied on by experienced pros. 

Recipe For A Room courses have 3 great points of difference:

1:  I can't bear having only a superficial understanding of a subject, I need to know the 'why?' behind a 'fact'.  In my courses I explain the proven theories that underpin headline statements.  This equips you to contextualise design and apply it to future projects too, not just in a narrow way on one occasion.  This also means that Recipe For A Room courses are regularly weeded to remove inconsequential fluff!

2:  The most common complaint I hear about other design courses is that graduates are none the wiser about how to actually apply theories.

My courses are part theoretical, part practical and process-based.   By way of practical workshops and step-by-step processes, Recipe For A Room courses show you exactly how to do it for yourself, in the wild, so to speak.  

3:  Courses and coaching delivered by Recipe For A Room treat the whole designer.  Mindset and self-esteem are as important as business planning and meticulous accounting; psychology and mental preparation are as important as processes and paperwork. You will find equal emphasis here on hard and soft skills of professional design and business practice.

Recipe For A Room courses are so much more than just a pretty face. 

Bootcamp is a live online course (five weeks long and for maximum of 12 designers) that runs two or three times a year. It blends online collaborative group sessions, with 1-2-1 coaching with me where we focus on planning a unique business strategy and charting your future commercial success.

Bootcamp content covers managing your time, managing yourself, and managing your clients, alongside key business management skills such as business planning, creating financial goals, and planning marketing initiatives to deliver the desired results.  

Bootcamp requires 5-10 hours of your time each week for the five week duration of the course. 

Hothouse is where our community of ambitious creative entrepreneurs gathers to set goals for our businesses, to monitor and report on those goals, and to celebrate success.

Design practice can be lonely, and being consistent - showing up confidently each day to execute our business plans - is easier when there is accountability.  

Hothouse is also a venue for webinars and other live and scheduled events and activities designed to boost confidence, encourage positive mindset, and build core skills and competencies. 

Hothouse is free for 2025. 

HOTHOUSE - this online community welcomes all ambitious creatives who want to actively grow their business and achieve exceptional standards of professionalism. Hothouse members will be asked to set annual goals for their business, to actively push towards these, and to monitor progress as they go. 

BOOTCAMP - for professional designers with at least 3 years' industry experience, this short, intensive group course (delivered live online) also includes five 1-2-1 coaching sessions during which we plan your business success, step-by-step.  

COACHING - you can book meetings with me on an hourly basis, and together we can address your most pressing business challenges and work together on strengthening your professional skills.