Dowdell, beforehand advertising and marketing principal within the agency’s Chicago workplace, brings a wealth of expertise and experience to this newly created place.
Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, has been appointed as HOK’s director of strategic relationships. Working intently with the agency’s regional and market leaders, she’s going to lead HOK’s efforts to develop strategic relationships throughout its international places of work.
“It is a new place at HOK, nevertheless it matches Kimberly’s distinctive skills completely,” stated Riccardo Mascia, managing principal in Chicago and a member of the agency’s govt committee. “Along with being an achieved architect, relationship builder and chief in a number of skilled organizations, she has labored with a metropolis authorities company, as a developer and as a college lecturer. We’re thrilled with Kimberly’s capability to strengthen and broaden {our relationships} with shoppers, companions and stakeholders throughout our market sectors.”
Dowdell co-chairs HOK’s Variety Advisory Council and helped discovered HOK Impression, the agency’s social accountability arm. She additionally leads HOK Tapestry, a web-based portal and program for numerous companies looking for to collaborate with HOK. She is the 2023 first vp of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the 2024 president-elect. She beforehand was president of the Nationwide Group of Minority Architects (NOMA) and is a present member of the Nationwide Group of Minority Architects Council (NOMAC).
“I’m honored to tackle this new place at HOK,” stated Dowdell. “I sit up for constructing stronger relationships with our shoppers and companions, whereas serving to to form a extra sustainable future for our career. I’m dedicated to selling range, fairness and inclusion in every part we do.”
Dowdell can be based mostly in HOK’s Chicago workplace however can have duties in all of the agency’s places of work worldwide. She holds a Grasp of Public Administration from Harvard College and a Bachelor of Structure from Cornell College, the place she additionally serves as a trustee.
