Responsive Architecture: Reimagining The Customer Experience at The Armstrong Avenue  

Larry Lander is an oracle with a midwestern drawl. An architect and a pragmatic futurist, he has an innate ability to vividly portray possible futures that are rooted firmly in the present. As a Principal and PDR’s Director of Programming, he guides business leaders to ask more of their workplaces — to consider what is, what if, and why change? As the Managing Director of Design + Brand Services at PDR, she amplifies the abilities of her cohort of designers, architects, and consultants. PDR’s well-developed individuals and thriving teams are products of her empathetic design leadership. Challenging, multi-year projects and small bespoke spaces alike benefit from Jackie’s subtle approach. People come first. With this tenet, she hones talent and builds teams that can scale challenges with confidence.

Jackie Wheat is an innovator who shapes the world by unleashing the hidden potential in people. Design is her driver. Workplace is her medium.As the Executive Designer of the ExxonMobil Houston Campus, Jackie set the course for transformation. The fourteen building, 14,000-person campus would introduce needs for new technologies not yet offered on the open market. Recognizing her responsibility in the effort, she built a design approach that merged business requirements with human experience needs. As a result, what began as a real estate effort became a capital project. It was a pivot point for the energy giant that would lead to their workplace of the future.