We were lucky to catch up with Andee Kleffner recently and have shared our conversation below.

Andee, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Any advice for creating a more inclusive workplace?

I have found that creating a safe and synergistic space for employees , customers, and clients is a powerful “come from”. To understand and implement seeing each person with one or many gifts and qualities that are offered to grow relationships and business, is imperative to cohort development. When each person knows their importance and can contribute, everything changes.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I have been interested in art and design for most of my life. From its fun and playful environment to the transformative qualities that can be created by a space with feeling, mood, and moment. I learned of my interest in design in college from a basic design art class that opened my eyes to the fact that art was in me and I was into artistic things. I painted, drew, built, and re arranged. I was and am probably best know for the rearrange part of myself. I am driven by usefulness. If something is not being used, I feel a deep need for it to be moved along so its usefulness can be felt. I began constantly redecorating, buying, and selling. It’s much like rotating your tires. This evolved into the realization that items sell if they are given energy and have been mobilized. If we have the knowing that these inanimate objects carry a story and are a part of our lives. Even our emotional lives.

What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?

The best source of new clients is the film industry in Atlanta. It has been the single best sales growth I have had. The combination of used product and new design has played perfectly into what the movie buyers have needed for their sets.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My goal is to create more and more passive income buy having my furniture booths within the bigger stores who are staffed and selling while I am not there

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @andeekleffner

Image Credits
Nelson Mandela in acrylic by Jace Kleffner