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Jenny Donovan

A design firm shares lessons in designing a workplace that supports employee brain health.

Overview

International design firm HKS reveals ways to pair form and function in creating a productive and brain-healthy workspace. After teaming up with Center for BrainHealth, the firm shares findings from a collaborative study, like prioritizing workspaces to offer intentional wellness "affordances" to promote focus, exploration and ideation, collaboration and co-creation, rest and reflection and social connection. As the center continues to develop their brain-healthy workplace certification, researchers envision ways to empower individuals and teams with tactical tools customized to engage all levels of leadership and align with an organization's unique key performance indicators.

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"Success will require participation from the top down." Jennifer Zientz, director of programs and head of clinical services, Center for BrainHealth
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Jennifer Zientz, MS, CCC-SLP.

Jennifer Zientz, MS, CCC-SLP

Director of Programs


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