Diana Robinson-Sinkford
Senior Workplace Project Manager
East Coast region

Diana has over 20 years’ experience in residential and commercial move management and commercial construction. As a project manager, she was involved in commercial build-outs, coordinating construction, the moving of people and the provision of all office essentials.

“Move management is my love. It touches every person in a business and that’s the real opportunity – you know you cannot stop short until you have delivered the entire project to a high standard, and this goes beyond the move. I get so much joy from going into the client’s new office once they’re settling in, and seeing people interacting with, and enjoying, the new space.”

Diana was contracting and looking for a full-time role when she saw a message from MovePlan on LinkedIn. “I read the description and felt that this was my job! It felt perfect for me as it described what I loved to do. After learning more, I became even more excited, especially the fact it was started by a woman. I was thrilled to be offered the position.”

Diana’s role brings together both aspects of MovePlan’s offerings: change and move management which go very much hand in hand.

“I really focus on how the workplace will affect the people moving into it, because it affects everyone. We spend so much time at work, and it permeates all aspects of our lives, so it’s important to me that we get the new workplace right.”

When it comes to the actual move of a project, Diana comes alive: “I get an adrenaline rush when the move comes. It combines everything I love – working with people, solving issues, being flexible and adaptable. And when you get to completion day, it’s a great feeling. There is huge job satisfaction in this role.”

In the time since Diana started at MovePlan, she has been on several resume-enhancing projects. One of the assignments was decommissioning a large commercial asset. The assignment lasted more than one year and included 1.1+ million square feet of building space distributed across three office towers, 38 floors and multiple workstreams. This was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of project, allowing Diana to work with people migration, furniture and technology re-use and removal, electronics and metal recycling, and interior and external branding removal and re-purposing.

Outside of client work, Diana supports the internal teams for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Creating, writing and delivering videos across a variety of ESG topics for use internally across the business “has allowed me to bring my whole self to work. It is nice to be valued for my creativity and given this vehicle of expression.” With MovePlan committed to DEI, participating on this team “is yet more evidence of why working here is a great choice.”