Lisa Adams, NCIDQ

Lisa Adams is a senior interior designer and principal at HKS. She partners closely with HKS Research, to produce forward-thinking design solutions. She is one of the founding Steering Committee members of Citizen HKS, a consortium of design professionals within HKS working on public interest design projects. Lisa’s commercial and healthcare spaces have won awards both nationally and internationally.   

Lisa’s volunteer work in public interest design includes five years with Designs for Dignity that earned her a Spirit Award.  She sits on the DIFFA board and formerly sat on the board for The Right Livelihood Project.   

Grant Christofely

Grant and his team are on a mission to unlock high performance in clients' businesses and cultures. The core of his work is supporting organizations in making transformative change not only in their workplace, but also in their culture. Grant uses his expertise to create environments that reflect the needs and objectives of the client organization. Additionally, he works with clients to explore and implement how the digital environment can support organizational performance.

Susan Chung, Ph.D.

Susan focuses on the impact of design research. She connects design with research to improve human experiences in the interior environment, translates research into applicable design implications and conducts research projects that create meaningful positive impacts. She comes from an interior design background, holding a B.A. from Michigan State University and an MID from the University of Florida. She integrated interior design with behavioral research for her doctorate degree in Human Behavior and Design at Cornell University, with a focus on design attributes related to creativity in workplace environments. 

Jackie Dettmar, Industry Partner ASID

Jackie is an industry veteran with almost three decades of diverse experience. She leads the Design and Product Development Studios based at Mohawk’s Living Building Certified Design Center, The Light Lab, in Dalton, GA and is also responsible for the Mohawk Group showrooms.  

She has designed flooring solutions ranging from luxury high end wool product for Ralph Lauren, to corporate tile products for Google and Amazon, to historic woven renovation products. She was instrumental in launching Mohawk Group’s resilient hard surface business and led development for the first ILFI certified Living Products in flooring. With a B.S. in Textile Science and an MBA, Jackie considers herself a creative scientist. She believes that design impacts all aspects of business and that creative thinkers can change the world.   

Avinash Rajagopal

Avinash Rajagopal is the editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine. He is an expert on product and interior design in the digital age, is a historian of contemporary design, and frequently speaks at key industry events. He is the author of Hacking Design (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2013) and has contributed to numerous volumes on architecture and design, including Adhocracy (Istanbul Design Biennial, 2012), Making Africa (Vitra Design Museum, 2015), and Atlas of Furniture Design (Vitra Design Museum, forthcoming). Avinash has lectured on design history and writing at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the University of Texas at Austin; and the National Institute of Design, India. 

Joseph White

Joseph brings over 15 years of design experience to the Herman Miller’s ongoing research into human-focused workplace design and executing strategies around those findings. Joseph earned a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the University of Tennessee, where his studies opened up explorations into nonverbal communication, color theory and the interactions between people and their environments. From this academic core, he built a professional vita around one fundamental belief: that everything is connected. He has earned NCIDQ certification, IDEX California certification, and LEED accreditation. Prior to Herman Miller, Joseph served as the director of strategy at Rapt Studio, as well as in a variety of positions for the noted design firms HOK and FXFOWLE (now FXCollaborative).