the walker group helps companies use space to their advantage.

Consider one of the most common barriers to organizational performance: Silos. Teams, departments and divisions that can’t, don’t or won’t share information.

It’s a problem design can help solve, and one The Walker Group often tackles. But that just scratches the surface of what a systems-oriented approach to workplace design can achieve. The deepest benefits come when leaders recognize that space influences behavior. Once you realize its power as a strategic lever, it’s then crucial to understand what behaviors the company wants to foster in service to business and cultural goals. Then we align them with real estate decisions — a process that is at least as valuable as the workplace it yields. 

IS YOUR SPACE WORKING FOR OR AGAINST YOU?

Guided by a systems approach to organizational performance, Lori Walker is a strategic design consultant who ensures your office is an asset by aligning business vision, strategy, and culture with real estate and design.

Lori Walker is a strategic design consultant who connects business vision, strategy, and culture with real estate and design. She began her consulting practice in 2014 after more than thirty years in architecture and design. Her experience has spanned all aspects of the design process: project management, strategic planning, quantitative and qualitative programming, workplace strategy development, and change management. Lori is an authority on leading workplace trends and strategies; she’s worked throughout the U.S. with global organizations that include The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, Boeing, Starbucks, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

Education                 
MA Organizational Leadership, Pinchot University; Seattle, WA
BS Interior Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Civic Boards                                       
New Horizon School, Board President 2014-2016
Seattle King County Habitat for Humanity, 2007-2014
VP Corenet Global, Washington State Chapter, 2009-2014

AND EVERY SYSTEM, IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, NEEDS TO RENEW ITSELF.

Whether connecting the dots on work already done (employee engagement, strategic plans, culture surveys, brand work, etc.) or helping a company define the change they seek, Walker Group services are aimed at optimizing your project’s role in the renewal of the organization. Consulting engagements typically involve one or more of three main areas: visioning, workplace design strategy, and change management.