Jenny Sand

I've been in the contract furniture and interior design industry for over 15 years now, since 2011. After graduating from Purdue with my interior design degree in 2010, my first job kind of found me through someone I was dating at the time who worked at Steelcase in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He connected me with a Steelcase dealer in Chicago, and that's really all it took. I stayed with that company for 12 years, and there was a merger in the middle where we became our own new company. During that time, I became the expert in healthcare design - my company was making me the example, saying 'Jenny does her drawings this way, she does her specs this way, she organizes them this way. Do it her way, because it's precise and organized and clean and easy to understand.' That made me feel great about everything I had done. When I left, I trained all the healthcare designers on everything I had learned. In 2020, I moved to Atlanta to be closer to my family and found a Steelcase dealer here for a few months, then was looking for a bit of a change and found a Hayworth dealer where I've been ever since. It's just a good fit for me and my personality. Today, I'm in charge of specifying all the technical parts and pieces of workstations, private offices, storage, seating - all very detailed work that they don't teach you in school. It's very niche and specific, and I had to learn it from the ground up, day one. I'm also in charge of double checking other designers' work because there are so many parts and pieces and finishes and details that we need all eyes on it to catch any mistakes. I'm a very organized and detailed, almost perfectionist type of person, and the work I do is perfect for my personality. I get to be creative, working on space planning and visuals and presentations, and that creative, organized side gets to come out. I'm already at the senior level, and I like my lane and I'm happy with it.