Hi, I’m Cheryl
I help built environment professionals create successful co-making programmes which benefit not just young people, but also employees at all levels of an organisation, resulting in impactful team building skills and strategic career development benefits.
My Approach
I work with architecture practices and engage in co-making strategies that empower early-career employees — from recent graduates to emerging professionals — to develop their skills and competencies explicitly through practice. By combining collaboration and iteration, I help your team move beyond traditional models of passive learning, creating dynamic, hands-on experiences that align with your organisational goals, strengthen your practice culture, and future-proof your workforce.
Collaborative
I believe in the power of collaboration to create exceptional outcomes for young people, graduates, and early-career employees. Working closely with your team, I help develop professional skills that build confident, capable individuals equipped with strong teamwork, leadership, and co-creation abilities.
Iterative
I take an iterative approach to all my work, offering services that range from a focused 1-hour talk to an immersive 15-hour programme delivered over 10 weeks. Together, we’ll review progress and adapt as needed to achieve meaningful outcomes through impactful co-making experiences and targeted leadership development opportunities.
Why Work With Cheryl?
Built Environment
Cheryl is a qualified, chartered and registered architect with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Cheryl is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects (WCCA).
Practice
Cheryl worked in a range of practices, from small to large commercial architecture offices. Whilst at Sheppard Robson Architects working on education projects for Cambridge University Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES), and the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine she developed a clear understanding of the sustainability needs of large commercial projects and provided environmental consultancy on projects across the multiple sectors in the practice.
Cheryl then established her own architecture and environmental consultancy company carrying out sustainable design analysis to achieve Net Zero. During this time she worked on her most noteworthy environmental consultancy project; the Francis Crick Institute beside the British Library.
Education Expertise
Cheryl specialised in environmental design immediately after becoming a fully qualified architect, completing an MA in Environment & Energy at the Architectural Association. She is an advocate for Net Zero strategies and the broader United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG’s).
Cheryl’s work as an academic in sustainable design led her to become Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA). As Head of Academic, Personal & Professional Development at Trinity College, Cambridge and as Founder of Archimake, a co-making architecture programme for young people, Cheryl is a strategic education leader developing methods to empower others.
Around these roles Cheryl finds time to be RIBA Part 3 Examiner at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and London Metropolitan University and Trustee of Temple Bar Trust.
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Leadership Training for Over 100 Graduates & Early Career Professionals
Skills development includes leadership, sustainable design, communication, inclusive and reflexive practice as well as multiple ARB professional competencies
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Co-Making for Over 1,000 Young People
Across in person, online, in schools, and informal settings, immersive build workshops, and deep learning over time.
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Inclusive Sustainable Design Education
Expertise in achieving Net Zero, social justice and UNSDG’s for a more inclusive world. Inclusive practice educating technical and non-technical audiences from 6+.
Co-Making
Cheryl is Founder of Archimake which teaches children and young people about architecture in informal education settings
Cheryl was also co-founder with Beyond the Box of the Festival of the Future at RIBA and leaders in the field of education in the built environment
Case Studies
Speaker & TV
Cheryl has been Keynote Speaker and panel member at multiple national and international education conferences. Cheryl has also been featured on national and international TV broadcasts with over 2 million viewers.
Education Leadership
Cheryl has held various education leadership roles in the built environment and beyond including Trinity College Cambridge, The Engineering Design Institute, London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association, City University London.
What Clients are Saying
"Cheryl Pilliner-Reeves Thank you for inviting me to be one of your guest reviewers. I was inspired! Architecture is recognised in the STEM field, so its essential to introduce design and architecture at an early age and Archimake goes some way to doing that. There are some very talented aspiring designers and architects in your group and I hope to see some of them working for HOK in the future."
Femi Oresanya, HOK
"Archimake is brilliant! Both my children enjoy the lessons, which they attend in person at the weekends in their own time. They learn things they wouldn’t normally encounter in a traditional school environment. The course is centred around architecture but also helps develop a general awareness of their surroundings, which is extremely valuable."
N. Clarke, Parent of 2 Archimakers
Get in Touch!
Schedule a free 1:1 introductory consultation with me to discuss your education needs.
FAQ
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We'll start with a free 20 minute consultation to determine your needs and be sure I am the right person to help solve your problem. After that we’ll look at timescale to ensure availability. Generally I work with a lead time of 8 weeks.
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Pricing is based on both the duration and desired timeline for the work you require. (My rates are aligned with other professional speakers in the field and I will always require your approval before we begin).
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Timelines depend on the project, and will be confirmed after our initial consultation talk. I can provide a one off talk or an extended series of sessions with your team for deeper engagement. Further sessions are possible dependent on my availability.