✅Designer by degree. ✅Journalist by accident. ✅Researcher by choice. 🇺🇸 Chicago, IL Journalist on the 🧠business of design for 🌇Interior Design Magazine, 🌎Metropolis Magazine, and more. Former workplace blogger for 👩‍💻Huffington Post. Host of the Design Nerds Anonymous (DNA) podcast, the podcast that sparks curiosity at the intersection of business and design. Founder and President of 💥ThinkLab, the research division of SANDOW and sister company to design brands you know and love like Interior Design Magazine, Metropolis, Material Bank and more. 🎯At ThinkLab, we research A&D and the ecosystem that surrounds interior design and use data to provide 🤯inspiration for your business, ⛽️fuel for your design process, and 🔗connections with people and ideas for positive disruption. 🔗Let’s connect on LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/amandajeanschneider Interests: 🔮The future 🏛Architecture 🌇Interior design ➕Industrial and product design 🌐Economics 🏙Commercial real estate trends 🏗Construction trends 🤓Research techniques 📊Data visualization 👋When not working in my suburban Chicago home office, you’ll find me 🍷drinking wine, 🍫raiding my secret stash of dark chocolate, or 🏃‍♀️trail running at freakishly early hours :)