User:Cmoyer1/Diane J. Hoskins

= Diane J. Hoskins = (Introduction already exists, but want to add a couple sentences about how she spoke about her identity and leadership style at Gensler at the end of the introductory paragraph).

In a 2017 with Glassdoor, she spoke about the connection between her Danish and African American identity, growing up in an intergenerational household and her leadership style at Gensler. She shared, "While I don’t perceive that my ethnicity has informed my thinking as an architect, it has certainly informed my leadership style. I define myself as a naturally inclusive leader and I believe this is a distinct advantage because I see potential in every person that I work with... Growing up, my family life was generationally diverse; three generations lived together in our home. We had diverse ethnicity and nationality; my parents were a “mixed marriage” and my grandfather grew up in Copenhagen... What I grew up thinking was normal, I now know was an incredibly valuable and special experience of immersive diversity that has given me unique perspectives and versatility of thought."

Education
Hoskins received her undergraduate degree in architecture from MIT in 1979. She then worked at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before returning to school to pursue a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. In an interview with Glassdoor in 2017, she explained how the pedagogy of MIT's architecture program at the time which focused on human-centered design impacted her thinking about the importance of designing with users in mind. She also credited a course on managerial psychology at MIT's Sloan School of Management for sparking her interest in workplace design and behavior.

Projects

 * Facebook Headquarters. Menlo Park, CA.
 * Microsoft headquarters. Ireland.
 * Shanghai Tower. Shanghai, China.
 * Ford Foundation Center. New York, NY.