Sarasota architecture firm increases retention, grows into top workplace

The technical aspects of architecture, from designing and planning everything from an arch to a ziggurat, comes mostly naturally to Stu Henderson. 

The not-so-natural part? Building a sustainable business where there’s a consistently engaging work culture, a place where the firm’s employees feel part of a winning team — not just cogs in a project-in, project-out machine. “Making this fun is a lot of hard work,” says Henderson, a partner at Lakewood Ranch-based Fawley Bryant Architecture.