Season 3 | Episode 6 – Places She Shapes with Zoe Smeeth

Emma Foster knew she wanted to be involved in buildings from the moment a careers advisor wrote the word "architect" on a piece of paper. She went to Liverpool, realised within days that architecture wasn't quite right, and spent the rest of her degree quietly working out what was.

Emma is now Principal at BGO, overseeing the design and construction of major development projects across Central London, including a half a million square foot office development at 105 Victoria Street. She got there via Mace, Goldman Sachs, Tishman Speyer, and a code word involving a monkey.

This episode is full of moments that will resonate. Being thrown in the deep end as a 23-year-old PM on a major school project with no real blueprint. Being told "don't run before y ...