Aglobal provider of planning, design and delivery solutions for the built environment since the firm’s founding in 1955, HOK has developed into one of the world’s largest, most diverse and respected design practices. It leads the planning, design and delivery process for diverse assignments in every part of the world, with a track record of delivering visionary projects on time and within budget, and employs more than 1,600 professionals linked across a global network of 26 offices.
To improve its recruitment and retention of employees from diverse backgrounds, HOK has been tracking and working to increase the diversity of its leadership since 2015. Since then, HOK’s diversity metrics have shown steady progress in reaching milestone goals that continuously raise the bar when it comes to representation at every level, position and sphere of influence across the firm.
In 2021, HOK set even more aggressive diversity goals for firm leadership roles, emerging leaders, the board of directors and the core boards (design, management, technical and marketing). It has since realized or surpassed most of these goals, resulting in its recent commitment to attaining new challenge goals by 2025. The Diversity Advisory Council is working with HOK’s leaders to establish even more aggressive goals going forward.
Each of HOK’s regional practices has developed diversity goals with target metrics. By requiring them to report their progress to the firm’s board of directors every six months, they are held accountable for continuous improvement.
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