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From navigating everyday team operations to carrying maximum impact in the boardroom, visionary leaders have used their experiences to create success. Listen to Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership as the Schmidt Associates’ team speaks with executives and leadership experts to uncover their achievements, watershed moments, and the turning points that have shaped their careers. Along the way, you’ll hear about their influences, discover what it takes to build strength and stability at the top, and learn lessons anyone in business can appreciate.

Recent Episodes

Dr. Andrea Behrman: Never Underestimate the Spinal Cord

Welcome to another episode of Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership. Host Sarah Hempstead sits down with Dr. Andrea Behrman, professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville and director of the Kosair for Kids Center for Pediatric Neurorecovery. Together they talk about a career spent rewriting what recovery looks like for children living with paralysis. Listeners will hear about: Dr. Behrman's path from frustrated clinician to scientist...

47 MIN

Michael-Paul Hart: From HVAC to City Hall and a Vision for Washington Square

Luminate is back! Welcome to another episode of Luminate: Navigating the Unknown Through Creative Leadership. We're kicking off a new season with host Sarah Hempstead and guests Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, Indianapolis City-County Councilor representing District 20, and Joseph Jarzen, client liaison and associate at Schmidt Associates, talking through the vision for turning 94 acres of nostalgia into a neighborhood's next chapter: Washington Square Mall. Listeners will hear about: Councilor ...

41 MIN

Foundations + Futures: Building the Next Chapter

To close out our Foundations + Futures anniversary series, we're flipping the format. Rather than revisiting a decade already lived, this roundtable turns to what's next: host Sarah Hempstead speaks with four Schmidt Associates team members, an architect, an interior designer, an engineer, and a landscape architect, about what today's practice looks like, what's changing fastest, and what they hope never does. Listeners will hear from: Alvin Laguerre, Graduate Architect: on the lesson t...

36 MIN

Foundations + Futures: 2020s with Ben Simmons and Veena Reddy

In this chapter of Foundations + Futures: By the Decade, we step into the 2020s, a decade that has asked Schmidt Associates to plant roots in a new market, take on the most complex projects in firm history, and figure out what servant leadership looks like as a new generation steps into leadership. Ben Simmons, principal-in-charge and principal leading community work out of Schmidt Associates' Louisville office, and Veena Reddy, senior project architect and firm principal whose work in sustai...

36 MIN

Foundations + Futures: 2010s with Brett Quandt and Lisa Gomperts

In this chapter of Foundations + Futures: By the Decade, we step into the 2010s, a decade that demanded more from everyone in design. Sustainability shifted from something firms aspired to into something they felt accountable for, and communities started asking whether what they'd built still served people or the planet. For Schmidt Associates, it was an era of bold ideas, complex partnerships, and a move into its second generation of leadership. Lisa Gomperts, firm principal, project manager...

25 MIN