What Separates Good from GREAT Workplaces | Workspace Design Lab Ep. 9
Can workplace design actually save lives?
In this episode of Workspace Design Lab, host Sylvanna VanderPark welcomes Kay Sargent, Senior Principal and Director of Thought Leadership at HOK. With four decades of design experience, Kay shares how thoughtful design impacts not only productivity but ...
Where do neurodivergence and creativity collide? - With designer, author and Director of Thought Leadership, Kay Sargent
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In this episode, Ian and Kay discuss the importance of creating intentional workspaces that foster creativity and accommodate neurodiversity. They explore the challenges of maintaining productivity in a busy world, the creative process, and the evolution of design philosophy towards a mor...
Neurodiversity at work: Understood.org's Nathan Friedman on what leaders get wrong about 70 million employees
One in five Americans has a learning or thinking difference, and 53% of Gen Z identifies as neurodivergent. That means neurodivergent employees are already on your team, whether you know it or not. Nathan Friedman isn't here to make this a DEI checkbox issue. He's here to make it a business case....
Hot Takes with Kay Sargent of HOK
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The Hot Takes Wheel is spinning again! This time Kay Sargent from HOK joins Sid to discuss what is breaking, what is evolving, and what needs to get simpler in the contract interiors world. They dig into dealers, talent, consolidation, and AI, then discuss their favorite question...
Inclusive Design, the New Granfalloon, and our Latest Recs
Kay Sargent on neuroinclusive interior design. This summer’s Granfalloon. And your hosts talk about a few items you should check out. If you want.
Kay Sargent Space and Cognition: Workspaces for Independent Professionals
Kay Sargent makes the case that your workspace is part of your cognition, not a backdrop to it.
Kay leads neuroinclusive design at global firm HOK and wrote Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces (Wiley).
Her framework — six modalities of work, each needing a higher-stimulation and a lower-stimula...
Kay Sargent Space and Cognition: Workspaces for Independent Professionals
Kay Sargent makes the case that your workspace is part of your cognition, not a backdrop to it.
Kay leads neuroinclusive design at global firm HOK and wrote Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces (Wiley).
Her framework — six modalities of work, each needing a higher-stimulation and a lower-stimula...
Neuroinclusive Design: How Your Environment Shapes Your Brain
Neurodiversity, neuroinclusive design, workplace productivity, sensory environments, architecture, AI, and human behavior—discover how the spaces around us influence the way we think, feel, learn, and perform.In this eye-opening episode of The Raw Vibe Podcast, internationally recognized workplac...
Neuroinclusive Workplace Design with Kay Sargent
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Kay Sargent is a global leader in shaping purposeful, human-centered environments. As Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors at HOK, she pioneers workplace strategy and real estate innovation. Kay is a renowned advocate for neuroinclusive design and creating built environmen...
What Does a Neuroinclusive Space Really Feel Like? With Kay Sargent and Noelle Daly
In the first episode of Designing for the Range, Bobbie Hickey is joined by Kay Sargent, Director of Thought Leadership at HOK Architects, and Noelle Daly, Chief Compliance and Standards Officer at Mobility Mojo, to explore what it really takes to make a space neuroinclusive.They talk about what ...
