01Messaging
PLEASE NOTE: We are preparing for a coordinated roll out of our external messaging to reflect the new 2026-2030 strategic plan. The content below will be updated at that time. Please see Beth Crowley or any member of the Exec Team with questions.
Our Mission
We enrich life and achieve powerful results through the places we design.
Our Mission (Short Form)
Enriching Life. Achieving Powerful Results.
Our Approach
Design Solves.
We align design with strategy to solve your challenges.
Our Approach (Long Form)
We believe design does more than create beautiful spaces. It solves the challenges our clients face today and beyond. Therefore, we align design with strategy to accelerate progress and transformation. The result of our work enriches lives and achieves powerful results.
Our Services
We provide architecture, interior design, strategic advisory, and environmental branding services.
How We Work Statements
Bold decisions backed by data.
We make smarter, more impactful decisions by applying our data-driven approach.
Design for change.
Using Performance-Based Design, we identify opportunities to accelerate progress and transformation.
Forward-thinking experts.
With specialized market understanding, we move beyond what is expected and design for innovation.
Inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
Through our projects and our practice, we are dedicated to being part of the solution.
Advocating for our planet.
We are advancing sustainable practices into our designs and daily operations.
Proud of our past. Excited for your future.
Since 1908, our culture and values have guided us as we serve clients around the world.
Our Process
Kahler Slater’s multidisciplinary team aims to take advantage of the opportunity presented by capital projects. Using a performance-based design process, we uncover creative solutions to fill the gap from where our clients are to where they want to be. Our data-driven approach means we identify strategic goals, define metrics, and then design for change. By doing so, we deliver tangible improvements to our clients’ organizations.
About Us
* This should be used when asked for a company profile or paragraph.
Kahler Slater designs to enrich life and achieve powerful results. Through architecture, interior design, strategic advisory, and environmental branding, Kahler Slater solves their clients' most pressing challenges, advances strategic goals, and accelerates progress. They offer market expertise in civic and cultural, healthcare, higher education, workplace, residential, hospitality, and sports, recreation, and wellness sectors. Kahler Slater operates offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Richmond, Charlotte, and Singapore. Follow Kahler Slater online at kahlerslater.com, on Linked In or Instagram.
Tone—We are / we sound like
- Authentic
- Approachable
- Polished
- Enthusiastic
- Confident
- Courageous / Bold
- Curious
- Credible
- Collaborative (acknowledge partners)
- Conversational and friendly
- Knowledgeable – we are experts
- Thankful, but not overly humble
- Easy to comprehend
Tone—We are not
- Funny / cutesy / silly
- Folksy
- Overly serious nor overly casual
- Verbose
- Edgy nor Irreverent
- Shocking
- Conservative
- Dry / overly academic
- Self-congratulatory
- Complicated
- Jargony