On a warm evening in St. Louis, HOK sponsored a special event in Washington University’s Steinberg Auditorium focused on innovation, change and design thinking in the 21st century. Alan Webber, business journalist and co-founder of Fast Company Magazine, previously managing editor of Harvard Business Review, shared with the HOK Board of Directors, St. Louis employees and HOK clients his wisdom on what we should be thinking about to be successful in the 21st century.

Alan started his talk by explaining a recent trip he took to Austria. He sat with a wide cross section of very smart people (an emerging think tank) who asked themselves what were the big recent surprises in …

Here’s a rundown of our 20 tweets (a new one-day record for @HOKNetwork!) summarizing what Alan Webber, Fast Company founding editor, “global detective,” and author of Rules of Thumb, just told a crowd of 150 HOKers and clients gathered at Washington University’s Steinberg Auditorium about the power of design in the 21st century.

Just met Fast Company founding editor @alanmwebber in our STL office! Tonight he’s talking to HOK & our clients about the power of design.

What does today’s world need from a global design firm? We have asked Alan Webber to challenge us.#alanwebber

We’re live tweeting Alan Webber’s address to HOK’s BOD and our clients …