Bio

Lily, an award-winning Design Director in Gensler's Detroit office, brings 20+ years of experience directing design narrative and story, with a keen eye on providing branded experiences and cultivating deeply experiential design solutions. Driven by the development of meaningful client relationships and empowerment of her designers, Lily believes that projects are most successful when clients and teams embark on a journey together, offering reciprocal vision, solutions, and feedback. This is the foundation for her team management style, too: rather than dictate direction from afar, she provides tactical support as she encourages her designers to challenge themselves, tap into their talents, expand their perspectives, and uncover surprising solutions to tough problems. Lily's design experience spans hospitality, workplace, and health & wellness spaces. Her creative curiosity is driven by the evolution of the user experience and t-he transforming business market that influences it; redefining the status quo uncovering innovative and adaptive future-forward ways of experiencing space and place. Fueled and fascinated by human existence - the ways we viscerally experience our environments and make sense of our surroundings - Lily made her way to design by way of neurology. She was in med school when she realized she could best manifest this curiosity via the built environment, rather than a scalpel. She ran her own firm for 17 years and led the Commercial Office Building practice at an established Detroit firm before bringing her expertise to Gensler to help lay the framework and define design excellence with Gensler Detroit. Her tenacity, curiosity, and dedication to excellence have earned Lily the trust and respect of her clients and peers.