With 25 years of experience as a workplace specialist, Donna brings workplace planning advisory, interior design solutions, and change management program management for large-scale transformation projects to a broad client base in the corporate, public, biotech, petroleum and academic sectors.

In her role with Cushman & Wakefield’s Strategic Consulting team, Donna helps clients with portfolio strategies, occupancy planning and design advisory. She works to improve the overall workplace experience for employees with integrated solutions and real estate strategies.

Recently, Donna led the return-to-work initiative, from planning to implementation, for Cushman & Wakefield offices across Canada.

Before joining Cushman & Wakefield, Donna worked for Genentech Inc. (Roche) in South San Francisco as a Strategic Planning Manager and later as the New Work Environment (NEW) Program Manager in the Workplace Effectiveness Group. Donna was the lead and single point of contact for the development and integration for the NWE program for the South San Francisco campus consisting of 5.5 million square feet of office, lab and manufacturing facilities (61 buildings with over 13,000 people). In this role, Donna partnered with extended team members, business leaders and Roche sites globally to develop short- and long-term planning strategies, capital planning projects, workplace planning improvements, project delivery and change management initiatives.

Prior to Genentech, Donna held the position of Global Planner on the HOK Workplace, Planning & Design (WPD) team, which provided onsite services to Nortel and Chevron. While at HOK, Donna developed and led specialized training workshops globally for clients to maintain consistent planning principles to align with HOK Advance Strategies’ advisory methodologies.