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Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors
Kay Sargent has practised interior design for forty years, working across corporate headquarters, sports arenas, airports, hospitals and government buildings. She is Director of Thought Leadership for Interiors at HOK, having previously led the firm's global workplace practice, and earlier directed workplace strategies at Lendlease.
Around nine years ago a client asked how to design a space for someone with ADHD, a question she felt she should have answered better, particularly as the mother of neurodivergent children. That gap sent her into years of research on sensory processing and the built environment, resulting in multiple published reports and her book, Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces (Wiley, 2025).
Her work now extends into neuroaesthetics and embodied cognition, the study of how the brain responds to space as part of thinking itself.
For the Wisepreneurs audience of experienced professionals building independent practices, Kay's research offers a scientific foundation for a decision most make by instinct: how to design a workspace that supports their best thinking.
