EP 218 | Financial Metrics for Interior Designers with Larry Goldberg

Are you tracking the numbers that actually drive success in your interior design business?

In this episode, Kimberley Seldon is joined by Business of Design® CFO Larry Goldberg to discuss why measuring key business metrics is essential for profitability, growth, and smarter decision-making.

Too many business owners rely on instinct alone, but the numbers tell a clearer story. Larry explains how analytics help designers identify problems early, improve operations, and make ongoing adjustments that lead to stronger financial performance.

If you want to run a more intentional and profitable design business, this episode will help you understand what to measure—and why it matters.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why measurable data leads to better business management
• How financial metrics help interior designers make smarter decisions
• Why every business has unique key performance indicators
• How regular analysis supports ongoing improvement and profitability
• The connection between analytics and long-term business growth
• Why procrastination keeps business owners focused on the past instead of the future

Design Intervention

If you can measure it, you can manage it.

About Larry Goldberb

Larry Goldberg is CFO for Business of Design® and started working with Kimberley and the BOD team in early 2021    .

Larry is a CPA and spent my career working as the key financial person in a very wide variety of businesses, including new start-ups, established but very high growth companies, family enterprises, public and private companies and so on. Those businesses have been in many different industries, including software, energy storage, organic food, financial services and now… design.

Mr. Goldberg is a seasoned, operationally focused, financial executive with a very diverse experience set including private and public equity financings, debt financing, banking relationships, public markets and regulatory affairs, and board/audit committee membership.