Any long-term strategy that fails to include a healthy investment in the next generation of business leaders is missing a vital ingredient. Fortunately, this is not the case at Oxford based award winning, multi-disciplinary architectural practice Gray Baynes + Shew, following the completion of a succession planning process.

Since 2016, business partners Nigel Spawton, Robin Edwards and David Welbourne have been actively involved in structuring the transition of the ownership, management, and control of their architecture practice.  Each of these elements required careful planning,...