{"id":4720,"date":"2020-09-09T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:27:19","slug":"2020-emerging-leaders-program-meet-meagan-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/2020-emerging-leaders-program-meet-meagan-buchanan\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Emerging Leaders Program: Meet Meagan Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Web-page-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Web-page-banner.png 1200w, https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Web-page-banner-980x513.png 980w, https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Web-page-banner-480x251.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1200px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PROpel is a national competition created exclusively for emerging leaders, providing the opportunity for engagement in discussions and connections with influential representatives in the interior design community. This year, the opportunity to engage and connect with designers in the industry will look a little different in light of the effects of the global pandemic. Instead, each participant will be announced as part of a promotional series on a weekly basis with a short profile published across IDC\u2019s social media platforms, newsletters and honoured at the <a href=\"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/event\/idc-awards-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IDC Awards Celebration on September 23, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations to all 2020 Emerging Leaders Program participants!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Meagan Buchanan<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4578\" src=\"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/idcanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">\u201c<\/span>A thoughtful, innovative design solution might stem from a simple design concept, but it becomes so much more when it manifests into an intricate web of storytelling, research, inspiration, invention and care. By focusing on creating meaningful spaces albeit sounding clich\u00e9d, design can truly help to better the world.<span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meagan Buchanan is a proud Torontonian with a passion for design. For the past four years she has worked as an interior designer at HOK, completing complex corporate interiors projects. Her technical credentials include NCIDQ, WELL AP, and LEED GA. As a highly creative interior designer brimming with ideas, she has been able to hone her skills to transform her clients&rsquo; dreams into successful spaces that are both innovative and functional. Meagan has three award wins for Stryker&rsquo;s Canadian Headquarters, including IDC\u2019s VODA Award of Excellence, ARIDO Award of Merit, and the REmmy Award for Workplace Design. She was also part of the team that received an ARIDO Award of Merit for HOK\u2019s confidential pension project. Among her colleagues, she has been recognized as an emerging creative leader through a practice-wide initiative, HOK NExT (Nurture Empowerment eXploration Transformation), where the company posed the question, \u00ab\u00a0What if you had one day to change the shape of our practice?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Follow IDC&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/interiordesignersofcanada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a>to hear from Meagan on her <span style=\"color: #000000;\">ongoing projects and her new routine during COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stay connected to IDC via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/interiordesignersofcanada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/1427575\/admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/InteriorDesignersOfCanada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDCanadaTweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the 2020 Emerging Leaders Program participants as part of a promotional series on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idcanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}