Matt Manda
Personal Bio
With more than 25 years of experience in landscape architecture, urban design, and organizational leadership, Matt brings a collaborative, strategic approach to guiding teams and advancing complex initiatives. As Chief Operating Officer of MKSK, he helps shape the firm’s future by fostering alignment across its national practice and strengthening a shared organizational culture. He focuses on building high-performing, connected teams, developing pathways for professional growth through mentorship, and advancing operational excellence. Matt also champions innovation and emerging technologies to strengthen organizational performance and position the firm for sustained success. His leadership is grounded in bringing diverse perspectives together, building consensus around shared goals, and creating environments where individuals and organizations can reach their full potential.
Company Bio
MKSK is a collective of Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, and Planners, founded in 1990, who are passionate about the interaction between people and place. We are an employee-owned practice with a network of twelve metropolitan studios in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. MKSK works to solve the pressing issues in our cities and communities, and build places where people want to live. We work with communities and clients to reimagine, plan, and design dynamic environments for the betterment of all. MKSK approaches planning and design with a clear understanding that each place is unique and has economic, social, environmental, historical, and cultural influences which should be explored through thoughtful, context sensitive design. We help communities and our clients meet the challenges of changing global conditions through the MKSK LAB for Climate and Biodiversity Resilience. We shape place to improve lives, and we share our transformational stories and the power of strong planning and design to inspire ourselves, our peers, and the world to work together for the common good. Together we plan and design a world in which we all want to live.
Matt Manda
