Another installment in our series about the inspiring women of HOK (not to say that our men aren’t inspiring, too!): Meet Jeannette Thompson, Business Communications Specialist in the HOK Planning Group. While Jeannette calls St. Louis her home, she supports the HOK network throughout the world. You also know her as one of the Life@HOK blogstar team and future American Idol judge! Jeannette is a true superstar and I hope you enjoy getting to know her a bit better.
Q: What’s a typical day in the life of Jeannette Thompson?
A typical day involves a morning routine that is anything but typical, …
So you all might have read my earlier post of excitement about the localities of the TED talks (called TEDx) and now I have a bit more details for the Atlanta event which is just a couple months away. (September 15th, 2009)
Unboundary will be curating and hosting the talks and so far they have some exciting stuff posted up on the TEDx Atlanta website. It looks like Eric Lewis, Dr. Carl Hodges, and Dr. Richard Farson are already up for slated performers/speakers. You can watch Eric Lewis perform and Ray Anderson speak at …
Not that Alice ‘Char’ Martin in the HOK Tampa office could not have been an architect, a project manager or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but having three kids and moving to a new state every three years with a military spouse does not make achieving certain career goals easy. However, that did not stop Char, who recently attained her HOK PM Certification.
As I rushed past her desk one morning, Char told me that she had passed her PM Certification exam. I could not help but puff up with pride. With so much negativity in the news lately, it was invigorating to hear that someone was pushing through and rising up despite a lack of reward. If she can do …
Colin Greene of the HOK Planning Group in Washington, DC, specializes in town planning and community design — and I’ve always thought he has a great voice for radio. Here Colin talks about choices, inspiration, sustainability and more.
Previous edition. (we’re on a Colin theme!)
Need a little inspiration and wisdom to warm you up in this cold weather?
From the website…”Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, the wisdom project, produced with cooperation from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, seeks to create a record of a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark in the world.”
Each copy of Wisdom comes with an hour long film of every interview from the project. Really powerful, really inspiring….
