Helle Søholt is Founding Partner and CEO of Gehl. She started the company with Professor Jan Gehl in 2000. Through her leadership, strategic and organizational talent, the office has developed a knowledge base and experience portfolio that is respected internationally in the field of urban design and urban development.
Today, Helle is a prominent leader in her field. Over the past years, Helle has acted as an advisor to governments, companies and foundations including the City of Copenhagen, advocating for a new alternative to traditional planning with and for people. She has extensive international urban design experience at various levels of intervention and at a multitude of scales - from urban research and analysis, visioning and strategy to design development and implementation.
Helle is often leading and facilitating large change processes, where she aims to move those involved from a traditional planning and design approach, towards a 21st century value-based model centered on people. Using her pragmatic idealism, Helle manages to facilitate processes where people become the drivers of change. She enjoys fast idea generation, solving complex urban challenges and facilitating processes by engaging multiple stakeholders.
Helle Søholt
Helle Søholt is Founding Partner and CEO of Gehl. She started the company with Professor Jan Gehl in 2000. Through her leadership, strategic and organizational talent, the office has developed a knowledge base and experience portfolio that is respected internationally in the field of urban design and strategic urban development. Over the years of its existence, Gehl has been awarded multiple prizes and recognitions for their contribution to making cities more livable and sustainable around the world. Helle is educated as an Architect from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Copenhagen. She also holds master degrees from Copenhagen Business School, the University of Washington in Seattle and a board education from IMD in Lausanne.
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