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Amanda Schneider

Amanda Schneider, LEED AP, MBA is a researcher, writer and founder of ThinkLab. Amanda is a strategic thinker with a strong background including industrial design, market research, product management, sales, and strategic launch practices with a breadth of companies within the interiors industry. Amanda’s creative process stems from her education in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, while her natural business sense is augmented by her MBA from the University of Iowa. She is passionate about studying the latest workplace trends to make meaningful connections for the industry and regularly blogs about them in various industry publications. When she’s not busy working in her suburban Chicago office or visiting clients, you can find her trail running at freakishly early hours of the morning, dreaming about that book she’ll write someday, or ambushing her secret stash of dark chocolate and red wine.

Whether you’re in a back bedroom in suburban Milwaukee or a carved-out office nook in a posh New...
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There’s an underlying effect that’s plaguing the workplace – and hint: it’s not a virus. Well,...
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Across the interiors industry, workplace planners are trying to make sense of pandemic-related...
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The world as we know it is stuck in a true dichotomy between economic health and physical health....
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In a recent Metropolis-hosted Think Tank event, Yana Ronin, founder and chief strategist at ...
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In his 2017 book, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It...
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A common discussion point in the interiors industry today is the future of the workplace. What...
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It’s the time of year when everyone is trying to pull together predictions for the coming year....
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Since COVID-19 became part of our everyday vernacular, the ThinkLab team has been working behind...
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