Diane Hoskins

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."[11]

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.[12][13] 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.[11]

• Facebook Headquarters. Menlo Park, California.[14]
• Microsoft headquarters. Ireland.[14]
• Shanghai Tower. Shanghai, China.[14]
• Ford Foundation Center. New York, New York.[14]