Carla Heikin

 Carla Heikin

Carla J. Heikin

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Biography

Drexel University - Architecture


Resume

  • 2005

    Drexel University

    Philadelphia

    PA

    Adjunct professor/ juror - graduate and under graduate design program

    Drexel University

  • 1990

    Wachovia

    Managed all aspects of corporate and retail design and construction for CoreStates Financial Corp Real Estate portfolio of 15M SF

    including project management processes

    design and space standards

    process improvements

    vendor relations and negotiations.\n\nAfter merger

    responsible for defining

    developing and implementing new ways of working through creative workplaces

    using multifold methodology to deliver processes and spaces to influence user groups from 10 person teams to the entire 90

    000 corporate population.

    Wachovia

    Workplace Strategist

    My team was responsible for the design and implementation of a comprehensive workplace strategy to support Deloitte’s mobile workforce of 57

    000 professionals. Methodology included extensive data gathering

    measurement and analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of Deloitte practitioners’ work patterns and behaviors to drive towards a strategic

    dynamic and flexible workplace supporting individual work

    collaboration

    teaming and community while strengthening culture and brand.

    Deloitte

    Teaching design studios

    I teach undergraduate and graduate design ranging from beginning interiors studios to increasingly more complex design projects. My passion about workplace strategy work has led me to build the commercial design class around the tenets of it

    focusing on cultural

    social and business dimensions influenced by human behaviors. I also work with graduate thesis students

    advising and collaborating on many varied and diverse projects.

    Adjunct Professor at Drexel Universtiy

  • 1966

    Drexel University

    MS Interior Design

    BS - Economics

    University of Pittsburgh

  • Business Process Improvement

    Process Improvement

    Business Strategy

    Business Transformation

    Project Management

    Data Analysis

    Program Management

    Organizational Design

    Management Consulting

    Strategic Planning

    Leadership

    Business Analysis

    Strategy

    Change Management

    Heikin

    Workplace Design Leader in the professional sector for 20+ years of strategic project and program leadership. Skilled in developing

    designing and implementing successful workplaces by aligning business goals and objectives with culture

    branding and new ways of working. \n\nHave taken these skills and knowledge to the Drexel University interior design program to participate in forming and updating design studios as an adjunct professor.

    Carla

    Deloitte

    Adjunct Professor at Drexel Universtiy