Steve McConnell

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About Steve McConnell

Board chair and a managing partner of NBBJ, Steve McConnell oversees strategic planning and firm governance. Steve’s expertise as a design practitioner and organizational leader has been instrumental in shaping NBBJ’s skill at creating environments and experiences that enable pioneering clients to realize healthy, vibrant, and sustainable futures for their organizations. Steve’s passion for NBBJ’s ideas-driven process has helped push creative frontiers with the development of the firm’s multidisciplinary platform, new technologies, R&D capabilities, and experience design expertise. During his tenure, NBBJ has been recognized as the most innovative architecture firm in the world by Fast Company and as a firm “redefining the future of practice” by Architectural Record. Steve’s legacy of groundbreaking project work spans international, domestic, public and private markets – and includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Hong Kong’s Asia World Expo, Reebok’s World Headquarters, and United States courthouses in Billings, Bakersfield, and Seattle. His projects have received dozens of awards from AIA, business, real estate, industry and government programs.