Receive focused and individual coaching with care from our very own garden3d founder, Hugh Francis. Learn all things business, with concentration on:

• Pricing work
• Writing contracts
• Winning business
• Managing projects
• Retaining Team Members
• Building Solidarity & Morale
• Hiring / Firing
• OKRs & Financial Planning

& more along the way!

This course will be defined by the cohort itself and their individual needs. Expect minimal work outside of class, and synchronous sessions of shared coaching and discussion.

This course would be good for you if you are:

• a freelancer looking to ground their business assumptions in reality.
• a studio founder looking to scale.
• a new hire at a creative studio looking to change up the culture.

We welcome mutually-minded, generous, and thoughtful participants who are eager to share knowledge and learn from one another’s experience. This group will use principles of Nonviolent Communication and inclusive meeting norms to create a safe space for all people to learn.

• Lay the foundation for the creative studio of your dreams.
• Build action plans to sustain your existing creative studio.
• Work together to give and receive feedback from a cohort with similar objectives.
• Collaborate in tandem with other talented studio coordinators.
• Manifest a lively creative learning environment with one another.

Run Studio Run- Eli Altman
Clear is Kind - Brené Brown
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul-Adrian Shaughnessy

Hugh Francis is a founding member of Sanctuary Computer,  Manhattan Hydraulics,  Seaborne, Index & Silo Arts & Records. He’s a partner at XXIX, and a patented inventor for his work architecting an operating system for The Light Phone. Today, he’s focused on operating garden3d, a collective of creative businesses in NYC.

Index scholarships are designed to benefit underrepresented groups, BIPOC members of our community, and those for whom the class price is not accessible. These need-based scholarships will go to the candidates who best demonstrate why they should be chosen for the free spot to our class based on the following criteria:

• Belong to groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the graphic design and creative industries
• Do not have jobs that would pay for these courses as professional development
• Cannot independently afford the class at list price
• Share our value of intentional community

The number of selected applicants chosen is subject to the discretion of Index and the instructor, but every course will select at least one. Apply for a scholarship here. Applications close March 17th.

We get that things come up, but we rely on headcounts in our programs to survive as a business. If you request a refund...

More than 4 weeks before class begins → 100% refund
More than 2 weeks before class begins → 50% refund
Fewer than 2 weeks before class begins → No refund

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