DDC26: Small Coach™ Foundations Workshop with Jim Heid

DDC26: Small Coach™ Foundations Workshop with Jim Heid

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Overview

An immersive workshop helping small-scale developers manage risk, strengthen decisions, and build entrepreneurial resilience.

Small Coach™ is a highly interactive, six-hour workshop created by and for small-scale real estate developers.

Led by Jim Heid, FASLA, author of Building Small, the workshop combines entrepreneurial coaching, personal skill and risk-profile assessment, a real-world development case study, collaborative problem-solving, and guided reflection.

Rather than teaching a linear, textbook approach to development, Small Coach™ immerses participants in the realities of an actual project. Participants will examine critical decision points, competing priorities, risk-management strategies, and the consequences of choices made throughout the development process.

Participants will:

  • Assess their entrepreneurial strengths, blind spots, and risk tolerance
  • Examine and manage risk across the development process
  • Work collaboratively through actual project challenges and inflection points
  • Compare possible approaches with the project’s real outcomes
  • Identify practical next steps for strengthening their development practice

The workshop also addresses the personal agility, acumen, and self-confidence required to build a sustainable career as a real estate entrepreneur while maintaining balance in life and work.

Participation is limited to 25 developers to preserve the intimate, coaching-oriented format. Workshop materials and proprietary self-assessment tools are included.

This is a separately ticketed DDC26 pre-conference program presented by The DDC Network.Participation is limited to 25 developers to preserve the intimate, coaching-oriented format. Workshop materials and a proprietary self-assessment tool are included.

This is a separately ticketed DDC26 pre-conference program presented by The DDC Network.

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Headliner

Jim Heid, FASLA

Founder, Building Small | Author of Building Small

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Highlights

  • 6 hours
  • In person

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

Location

The University of Chicago

5801 South Ellis Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

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