Join Metropolis' Susan S. Szenasy and Gensler Philadelphia for a Think Tank discussion on A Place of Purpose: How Workplace Design Helps Workers Find Meaning

As workplace culture and values continue to evolve, the purpose-driven employee has emerged as a model worker who is also highly engaged and unafraid of new approaches. Prevalent in the not-for-profit sector, this profile has become attractive to other organizational structures where values of mission, social cohesion, and engagement might be under-recognized. Exploring how employers can imbue work with meaning, the panel will bring together perspectives from workplace strategy, architecture, and innovation-leading communications and pharmaceuticals companies, while opening up to broader questions of how design can help organizations provide for employee experiences that are enriching, fulfilling, and productive.

Event Timing

11:00am Discussion

12:00pm Q&A with Audience

12:30pm Networking Reception

Panelists

Amanda Ramos, Principal & Firmwide Not-For-Profit Practice Area Leader, Gensler

Emily McVeigh, Director of Interior Design, MakeOffices

Ray Milora, Head of Design and Change Management, GSK

Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania

1.5 AIA CEU HSW credits available

About Metroplis Think Tank

The Metropolis Think Tank is a continuing education program (AIA CEU HSW accredited) that travels to leading architecture and design firms in key markets throughout North America. Our Think Tank challenges architects, interior designers, manufacturers, experts in design to examine the strengths and weaknesses of current design- thinking and building within the areas of Education, Workplace, Wellness, Hospitality and Urban Design/Mixed-Use. Resulting intelligence is shared across Metropolis’s media channels in book, online and with all of our participating partners.

Metropolis Director of Design Innovation, Susan S. Szenasy, known for her provocative but supportive moderating style, will lead conversations, focusing on the human factor: In search of human and earth centered design while looking at the collaborative opportunities between manufacturers, architects, designers, industry experts, clients and thought-leaders.