EP 024328 October 2025 · 58 min
Introverts as Leaders: Carlo Magni Challenges Architectural Norms
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Leadership in architecture is often framed around confidence, charisma and being the loudest voice in the room. That is a narrow view, and it can exclude people who lead in a quieter way.
Stephen Drew speaks with Carlo Magni, Associate Director at EPR Architects, about introversion, leadership, soft skills, delegation and how architecture professionals can grow beyond technical delivery into clearer project and team leadership.
The conversation covers:
Why soft skills matter as much as technical ability
How introverts can lead without pretending to be extroverts
What changes when you move from doing the work to managing people
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Stephen Drew
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Architecture Social Show. Often we're talking about buildings, which is super important because this is Architecture, but as you know, we are all the time in the office, and you'll start your career at one point as a junior. Who knows, you'll get plunged into a project and over time, if you're doing really well, you'll get promotions.
And one day maybe your boss says, you need to now run a project and manage a team. And you'd be thinking, where in the university did we talk about running a team? I didn't know how to do it myself. So it would've been handy to have these conversations. And on that note. I wanna bring my guest in.
EPR Architects projects
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Battersea, London, United Kingdom
OSMO
A Battersea workplace in the Nine Elms linear park that combines flexible offices with extensive planting, wellbeing amenities and biodiversity.
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The OWO
A Grade II* listed Old War Office transformed into a London hospitality and residential destination.
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