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 I travel quite a bit. Jeannette mentioned she “reads magazines on the plane, or when she gets the chance to ride a train – which are her free passes to daydream.” And although I wish I felt the same way. There is one magazine that gives me a headache every time I fly. Sky Mall.

I’m not sure how many people actually buy from that magazine, and I know everyone has looked at one at some point in your lives. But seriously I’m not sure how those companies stay in business. I even wonder how they can afford so much advertising, especially on an airplane. So what I did was I took a look at one of the magazines. …

HOK’s Planning team has participated in greenway planning here in the St. Louis area for more than a decade. Mark Vogl, Jeannette Thompson, Rachel Peine and I recently broke out of the office for a couple of field trips to take stock of how far the Great Rivers Greenway District has come in carrying out the region’s citizen-driven vision for a interconnected park and trail system. Though our own personal experiences using different segments of the system have been fantastic, our little tours still were eye-opening — the trails were busy and quite beautiful.

Here’s a little video compilation of …