Weekend Interview: How Warner Summers Partner Dana Ladd Went From Filling The Gaps To Earning A Piece Of The Pie This series goes deep with some of the most compelling figures in commercial real estate: the deal-makers, the game-changers, the city-shapers and the larger-than-life personalities who keep CRE interesting. Dana Ladd started at Warner Summers doing random tasks after finding herself as an unemployed architect during the Great Recession. She calls herself lucky for the experience because it instilled a hunger in her. That mentality carried her into a growth trajectory at the 60-year-old Atlanta architectural firm Warner Summers, to the point where in 2020, Ladd gained partial ownership of the firm, which ranks among the 20 largest interior design firms in Metro Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. 
The transaction allowed the company to register as a certified woman-owned small business, allowing it to compete for more business.“That’s the kind of leverage that WOSB certification gives you — a little bit more work,” Ladd, director of architecture and business development for Warner Summers, told Bisnow.Warner Summers earned certification from the… Read the full story here. | 
