Name: Cindy Froggatt Title: Workplace Strategist Company: Perkins Eastman Location: New York City and Stamford, CT Birthplace: Philadelphia Family: Mama to five-year-old son, Arman, adopted from Kazakhstan College: Cornell University and Penn State University First job unrelated to your current field: Banquet waitress at a dinner theater First job in current field: Research assistant at Philadelphia Geriatric Research Institute What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Perkins Eastman is a 650-person architecture and design firm whose corporate interiors practice provides a "hands on" approach to programming, design, and interior architecture. Our expertise includes shaping new workspaces for businesses to help increase profitability, productivity, and employee satisfaction. We have successfully balanced the need to reduce the overall real estate footprint while realigning the workplace to better support how work actually takes place. As a recent addition to the firm, Cindy will be providing creative workplace strategy, research, communications, and change management services as a complement to Perkins Eastman's established workplace consulting team. Hobbies: Hiking, biking Favorite film: "The Sound of Music" Keys to success: Listening; asking "why?" and "why not?" If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Archeology