Lindsay Beth Farr
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Tulsa Interior Designer, KKT Architects Take a look around Tulsa and it’s likely you’ll find a building Lindsay Beth Farr helped to design. As an interior designer at KKT Architects, Farr has the opportunity to strengthen Tulsa’s skyline – but she has a soft spot for certain areas of her work. “At KKT, I’ve worked on several types of projects, including commercial, healthcare and education,” she says. “But my favorite projects have been for nonprofit clients, such as when I worked on a project for Safe Net Services, a women’s shelter in Claremore. I felt exceedingly committed to creating a safe place for women and their families to heal.” In her spare time, Farr is a member of the International Interior Design Association and the International Facilities Management Association. She also volunteers at Redeemer Covent Church and Jenks Public Schools, and is a proud mother. Her favorite stress reliever? “Watching my girls dance,” she says. “My oldest daughter does competitive dance, and my youngest daughter participates in recreational dance classes.”
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Jared Jordan
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Tulsa General Manager, The Summit Club Overseeing every aspect of Tulsa’s most exclusive club is, for general manager and sommelier Jared Jordan, all about the bottom line: pleasing the customer. “Working in hospitality and fine dining is, at its core, about making people happy,” he says. “So I guess the thing I love the most is the satisfaction of providing our members with a truly unique and exceptional experience every time they come to the club.” When Jordan isn’t coordinating at The Summit Club, he enjoys giving back to Tulsa by helping out at both Philbrook Museum and Family and Children’s Services. “I think that it’s very important to give back to your community in any way that you can,” the transplant from Muskogee says. “I fell in love with Tulsa when I moved here almost 20 years ago, and being able to give back in any way I can, given that this city has been so good to me personally and professionally, means a lot to me.” Jordan often turns to a colleague’s tried and true advice when it comes to his job. “A friend of mine in the business once told me to ‘stop taking what we do so seriously; we are just serving food and drinks and trying to make people happy. It’s not any more complicated than that.’ For some reason, this stuck with me, and believing it allowed me to fall in love with what I do on a level I didn’t know was possible.”