Diane Hoskins

Diane Hoskins is an American businessperson and architect who currently serves as a Co-CEO of Gensler, the world's largest revenue-generating architecture firm, alongside Co-CEO Andy Cohen.[1][2] She is also on the board of directors for Boston Properties.[3] Hoskins has been covered by Washington Post Magazine, Fortune, Business Insider and other news sources as one of the most influential and powerful women in business.[4][5][6][7]

Diane Hoskins
Born
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (MBA)
TitleCo-CEO

Hoskins, who was appointed to chief executive in 2005, is one of the Co-CEOs credited with taking the firm from being one of the largest architecture firms in the United States to the largest in the world.[8][9][10] Hoskins also founded the Gensler Research Institute in 2005.[11]

Early Life

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."[12]

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.[13][14] 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.[12]

Projects
  • Facebook Headquarters. Menlo Park, CA.[15]
  • Microsoft headquarters. Ireland.[15]
  • Shanghai Tower. Shanghai, China.[15]
  • Ford Foundation Center. New York, NY.[15]

References
  1. Sitz, M. (2018, June 25). "Top 300 Firms of 2018: Gensler Leads the Pack for Seventh Consecutive Year". Architectural Record. Retrieved from https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13505-top-architecture-firms-of-2018-gensler-leads-the-pack-for-seventh-consecutive-year.
  2. Gorman, P. (2018, November 8). Gensler Co-CEOs bring an architect's mindset to the corner office. Chief Executive Magazine. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  3. Banister, J. (2019, May 23). Gensler Co-CEO Diane Hoskins Appointed To Boston Properties' Board. Bisnow.com. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  4. O'Connell, J. (2014, August 29). Three people creating the new Washington. Washington Post Magazine.
  5. Bradley, R. (2013, August 19). Gensler’s power of three. Fortune.
  6. Martin, E., Loudenback, T. and Pipia, A. (2016, June 26). 22 successful women-led companies that prove there's much more to business than profits. Business Insider.
  7. Daisley, M. & Rogers, A. (2018, September 28). 2018’s Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate. Observer.
  8. ArchDaily Editorial Team. (2017). The World's 20 Largest Architecture Firms. ArchDaily.
  9. Bradley, R. (2013, August 19). Gensler’s power of three. Fortune.
  10. Ikensen, B. (2013, June 6). What’s Inside Gensler’s Secret Sauce? Metropolis Magazine.
  11. Carlock, C. (2019, May 23). Boston Properties names Gensler's Diane Hoskins to board. Business Journals.
  12. "How Gensler's Diane Hoskins Is Making Her Mark on Global Skylines (& Future Female Architects)". Glassdoor Blog. 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  13. "Diane Hoskins (2013) | MIT Black History". www.blackhistory.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  14. Hoskins, SaFiya D. (2013-03-15), "Watson, Diane", African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1, retrieved 2020-08-09
  15. "Diane Hoskins | Thinking About the Future Workplace". Jacob Morgan. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-08-09.


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