We Use Design to Create a Better World
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 3,500 clients across 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, cities, and health sectors. We are guided by our mission to create a better world through the power of design and believe the source of our strength is our people. This year, we are capturing the firm’s ethos and unique culture in the 2023 One‑Firm Firm publication, our inaugural digital-first annual report.
The Source of Our Strength Is Our People
By leveraging our diversity of ideas, our research and innovation, our shared values, and our One-Firm Firm culture, we are moving forward together into a new era defined by design. By empowering our people and working seamlessly as an interconnected firm, we’re able to make the greatest impact for our communities as we continue to tackle the world’s challenges.
GENSLER VOICES
Gensler Voices: Nupur Shah on Defying Expectations
We sat down with Nupur Shah, senior designer, Gensler Bangalore, to ask her about how her unconventional career shift from healthcare to design has guided her work.
Gensler Voices: Haruka Yokokawa on the Importance of Having a Mission
We sat down with Haruka Yokokawa, from our Gensler Tokyo office, to explore the power of opportunity and learning in your career.
Gensler Voices: Veterans at Gensler Discuss Leadership, Trust, and Their Military Experiences
We sat down with United States military veterans to explore how the military has informed and inspired their work at Gensler.
We are a constellation of stars invigorated by our incredible diversity and global reach. Our team of 6,000+ talented design professionals, strategists, innovators, and leaders is driven by a shared purpose to improve how people experience the places we build.
GLOBAL RECOGNITION
In 2023, Gensler was recognized as the #1 architecture firm in the world by Interior Design magazine and the #1 architecture firm in the U.S. by Architectural Record and Building Design+Construction. This year, Gensler was also recognized as the #1 firm on Interior Design’s list of the top 100 sustainable design firms.
We Are Transforming the Built Environment for a Net Zero Future
We continue to sharpen our climate action focus with fresh research, new design capabilities, and updated priorities to meet our goal of achieving a net zero carbon portfolio by 2030. Through our Green Materials Initiative, we are also working to reshape the entire building materials supply chain to significantly reduce construction-related carbon emissions.
Climate Action Through Design
Our Climate Action Through Design Report presents solutions for transforming the built environment to achieve a net zero carbon impact across our portfolio and the broader design industry.
300m
By 2030, Gensler will have saved 300m metric tons of CO2.
—Climate Action Through Design 2021
Our Research and Thought Leadership Spur Innovation
From exploring the future of the workplace to the evolution of cities, we’re investing in research and thought leadership to deliver data-driven insights and strategies to help our clients navigate a changing world.
LATEST RESEARCH REPORTS
Tensions in Trust: Black Experiences in Healthcare
A study into how nurses experience building trust within the healthcare journey and the moments that enable or disable trust.
Work, Life, and the Workplace: A 2023 Survey of Office Workers in Six U.S. Cities
We surveyed remote and office-based workers across six major U.S. cities to understand the unique factors that influence why employees adopt different work behaviors.
City Pulse 2023: The Future of Central Business Districts
We surveyed urban residents in 53 cities across the globe to understand their experiences in central business districts from the perspectives of residents, employees, and visitors to the CBD.
700k
More than 700,000 employees have informed millions of key data points captured by the Gensler Research Institute.
The Gensler Research Institute is a network of researchers committed to developing a deeper understanding of the connection between design, business, and the human experience. Supported by a combination of research grants and external partnerships, we capture insights to identify how design can address issues of global wellness, climate change, and social equity as we build a more resilient future together.
We Want to Be the Example for a More Diverse and Inclusive World
Gensler is committed to driving change across the design industry, our client relationships, and the cities where we live, work, and play. We are dedicated to leading this change by starting from within.
NOMA Project Pipeline, Chicago
Gensler Chicago volunteer mentors participated in Project Pipeline’s summer camp — presenting architecture and design career opportunities to students in underserved communities.
Photography: Kai Brown
Photography: Kai Brown
GENSLER’S GLOBAL WORKFORCE
87
COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
101
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
1000+
UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED
53
OFFICES
10
REGIONS
54.9%
FEMALE
.2%
NON-BINARY
44.9%
MALE
Two years since we launched our Strategies to Fight Racism, we continue to evolve our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, taking on an ever more localized approach in each of our communities. From partnering with our clients in designing equitable spaces, to creating opportunities in our industry for diverse talent, we have made measurable progress on all fronts and continue to take action to create purposeful, inclusive, and resilient spaces for everyone.
We’re Committed to Enriching Our Communities
As stewards of our local communities, we are keenly focused on how we can design impactful, meaningful projects that benefit the people who live in them. Across every Gensler office around the world, our people donate their time, skills, and passion to their communities through volunteer service and pro bono and low bono work. We believe that when we put people first, we make the world a better place.
We Grow Our Firm by Growing Our People
Gensler’s entrepreneurial culture empowers people to pursue their passions, learn new skills, take on greater responsibility, and do the best work of their careers.
We Support the Education of Emerging Design Talent
Over the past year alone, our scholarship programs have awarded nearly $200,000 through the Brinkmann Scholarship, the Rising Black Designers Scholarship, and the Diversity in Design Bursary program.
We Support the Education of Emerging Design Talent
Over the past year alone, our scholarship programs have awarded nearly $200,000 through the Brinkmann Scholarship, the Rising Black Designers Scholarship, and the Diversity in Design Bursary program.
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