Naomi Sakamoto studied urbanism, civil engineering, and linguistics before attending architecture school. She practiced architecture in San Francisco, Boston, Honolulu, Tokyo, Beijing, and Paris, before joining Gensler in San Francisco in 2013, where she worked on projects ranging from a residential high-rise in Mumbai to airport terminals to university campuses. It was when she had the opportunity to work on two large tech campuses that she fell in love with workplace interiors, and its power to impact people’s lives and power an organization’s purpose. She leads Gensler’s technology practice area for the European region, which gives her access to the most innovative thinking across the firm.