All Past Events

July: Supporting the Post-COVID Employee Experience

Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

FM’s are still facing the challenge of a return-to-office plan that incorporates new safety measures, new occupancy/utilization models and investments in enabling technology solutions.

The Workplace Evolutionaries (WE) has teamed up with the Information Technology Community of IFMA and will discuss planning approaches and technologies that support “re-occupancy”.

Participants learn to connect to the business drivers and answer the questions ‘What does success look like?’  Workplace projects range from small moves and changes involving little risk to the business, to large relocations and new builds across multiple geographic domains. The latter cases require a high degree of project management skill and experience as well as organizational capability to support and provide governance across the stakeholders involved. For large organizations the role of the project management may involve a high degree of program management and being able to cope with cultural differences as well as the political sensitivities.

While the drivers for change are often economic, technological, spatial or process orientated, the key ingredient is people. Change can be disconcerting and destabilizing at a personal and organizational level. We’ll explore the human dimensions of change, how the brain responds to change and set out a model for managing change.

Stay tuned, title and speaker to be announced soon.

In a highly competitive world organizations need to generate competitive advantage from all their resources. The workplace and the workplace experience are no exception. In this module we examine the concept of the multi-sensory, multi-faceted ‘workplace experience’ and the process of consciously aligning it to business and organisational drivers in order to generate tangible competitive advantage.

Improvement management is focused on quickly capturing, monitoring and fixing day-to-day failings within the system. Well run, such a system not only fixes problems quickly and effectively but is seen to be doing so, and enjoys a strong feedback loop to further service design. It is very important that mistakes are not replicated, lessons are learned once, and effective means exist to pass-on the learnings to the next project. Historically improvement management has focused on tactical, well-executed activities but this session will also demonstrate the importance of improvements in strategic thinking.

June: Resilient Organizational Culture by Embedding Equity

Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

A resilient organizational culture is what separates companies who persevere through tough economic and social hardship, and those who do not. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in retaining and attract incredible talent. By embedding equity, you can fortify your culture into an inclusive and participatory experience with exponential benefits to the bottom line.

Experience an engaging session on what resilient and equitable culture looks like. Dr. Martin will provide knowledge and tools for participants to play an active role in transforming their organization.

Dr. Atyia Martin

Dr. Atyia Martin is the CEO and Founder of All Aces, Inc., an alternative to traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firms. Dr. Martin and her team partner with businesses, nonprofits, and government on organizational, professional, and personal development that advances racial equity and builds resilience. Her personal mission is to unleash the invisible power that every person and organization has to intentionally act to disrupt oppression. Dr. Martin has over 20 years of experience applying the principles of racial equity and social justice during her career in resilience, emergency management, public health, and intelligence.

Dr. Martin is published in scholarly journals and is the author of We Are the Question + the Answer: Break the Collective Habit of Racism + Build Resilience for Racial Equity in Ourselves and Our Organizations. Additionally, she is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute.

She has held previous professional roles that include Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston, director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness at the Boston Public Health Commission, and adjunct faculty in the Master of Homeland Security as well as Public Policy programs at Northeastern University. Dr. Martin has also held positions at the Boston Police Department’s Boston Regional Intelligence Center; City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management; the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI); the U.S. Air Force as active duty assigned to the National Security Agency; and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

Dr. Martin is a certified emergency manager with an Associate of Arts in Serbian Croatian from the Defense Language Institute (DLI), Bachelor of Science from Excelsior College, a Master of Homeland Security Leadership from the University of Connecticut, and a Doctorate of Law and Policy from Northeastern University. Dr. Martin and her husband were born and raised in Boston where they currently live. They have five children, two still at home.

Participants will learn about Workplace Capacity Management – what it is, what governs it’s constraints as well as key measurements and opportunities.  Workplace capacity is concerned with levels of capacity and commitments to the physical/virtual workplace as well as the services and technologies needed to achieve the organization’s strategic purpose in the most economical manner. It requires an understanding of both capacity and constraints/limitations as well as knowledge of relevant consumption data.

In order to survive in an increasingly challenging world, organisations need to constantly change to address new markets, respond to market pressures and adopt new practices, processes and cost structures. In webinar 1, we’ll discuss the world ahead, drivers for change, the challenges that change brings and define the discipline of Change Management.

WORKTECH21 Global is the virtual forum for all those involved in the future of work and the workplace as well as real estate, technology and innovation.