Managing Money

Creatives are given all the necessary tools to hone their craft in design schools, but when it comes to giving them the tools to manage their design businesses, most design schools fall way too short.

The vast majority of people, especially designers, have an innate fear of dealing with money, since for the most part it is something that is not in your locus of control.

I was fortunate to study and major in Accounting during my time at the University of Southern California. I understood how large businesses, such as Fortune 500 companies, were keeping track of their finances, but I didn’t yet know how smaller businesses were doing this.

It wasn’t until I began teaching at ArtCenter that I slowly started to discover and understand the financial needs of designers. I decided to teach my students how to manage their money so they could grow their creative businesses, and filled the gap where design schools were lacking. I developed an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn system for my students that made them more comfortable with the subject of money.

This course is that same curriculum.

Managing Money was designed to help you, the creative, reduce risk and fear with the application of the easy-to-use tools. It is meant to help you gain back control of your financial life, and have a set of metrics that continuously allows you to manage your finances in both your business and personal life.

Learning to set budgets and build financial independence also allows you to invest more easily and create wealth along the way.

Within each module, you will begin to feel a sense of independence and motivation, and successfully manage your finances.

This course does exactly what I did for my clients; providing hundreds of creatives and creative firms with financial management and control. And now, it’s time I teach the same principles to you, so you can pave the way towards a financially secure future.