Past WE: binars
October: Hybrid Workplace Strategies: A Roadmap for Elevating your Data
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Ashley Loftin Hyman
Facility Managers are having to respond to rapid shifts in workplace strategies. This calls for stronger capabilities in analytics, data management, and technology. Yet FMs face significant challenges and digital skills gaps at the individual, team, and organizational levels. This panel addresses these challenges and presents an approach to a high-level roadmap to build the analytical and data competencies needed by FM’s for better decision-making in workplace strategy.
Session objectives include:
1. Better understand analytical and data demands caused by rapid shifts in workplace strategies
2. Identify common gaps in analytical, data, and technology skills needed for better decision-making.
3. Define the critical data competencies that FM needs to be able to solve common challenges
4. Provide a roadmap to build your organization’s competencies in data management in FM
September: Demystifying Neurodiversity
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Compared to August 2017, in March 2022 Google trends captured an 80% increase in the word search ‘Neurodiversity. However, there is still a lot of uncertainty around what exactly Neurodiversity means and our role in making an equitable and inclusive environment and culture.
Join Dima, as she demystifies what exactly Neurodiversity is, the terminology around neurodiversity, its application to people, place, process, and technology, and how you can turn what is still considered a buzzword in our industry to a truly inclusive strategy.
August: Demystifying the Metaverse in the World of Workplace
Date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Netflix, Starbucks, Gucci, Nike, Hyundai, and JP Morgan (to name a few) have dived into the metaverse. What is the Metaverse? It’s natural to assume that names like ‘Decentraland’, ‘Sandbox, and or ‘Roblox’ are the metaverse then, right? The answer is, “No”. Confused? In this educational journey, we’re going to discuss the evolution of the world wide web, pull back the curtain on the definition of the ‘metaverse’, look at centralized & decentralized models, discuss common misconceptions, and go over some exciting possibilities both in the world we live in and within the workplace, what the future of the metaverse should be, and finally…who are the players in the metaverse ecosystem and what are their use cases.
July: What We Thought Was A Spark Was Really A Dud
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
For many organizations, the return to office outcomes they hoped for has shown less spark and more fizzle. Leaders and employees – including workplace teams – are unsure about “how to hybrid”. What should workplace and change teams do now? During this session, we’ll share practical suggestions to help you and your team focus on what to do during this moment of unknowing, evaluate if you’re investing in and measuring the appropriate outcomes, and determine if you have the right functional experts on your workplace team.
June: WE:binar Workforce Ecosystems- The Digital Renaissance
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
While many organizations embrace the digital era with great intensity using post-industrial revolution operating models – the platform economy has quietly activated a lethal new operating currency that many are only just beginning to understand. Dynamic, orchestrated ecosystems are emerging as the business model of choice for resilience in fast-moving, turbulent markets. What are they, and what’s required to make the shift?
Dyan Finkhousen is a leading strategist, futurist, and global authority on workforce ecosystems. She is the Chief Strategy Officer of Open Assembly and is known for her strategic work designing and deploying enterprise-scale ecosystems for iconic organizations like NASA and GE. Dyan is also Partner and COO of the Platform Strategy Institute, a Boston-based research and consulting firm helping organizations outperform with platform business models.
Before joining Open Assembly, Dyan was GE’s Global Director of Open Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, and Founder of GE GeniusLink and GE Fuse. Her transformational work in connected vehicles, connected equipment, and now connected experts has enabled organizations worldwide to optimize performance at scale.
May WE:binar: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of the Future of Work
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Frances Bruns
We all know the pandemic has forever changed the ‘where’ of work, but the convergence with other trends are reshaping much more than that. This session is based on a presentation Kate was recently asked to deliver to NASA futurists. It will explore the data on how organizations are transforming their workplaces and work practices in a post-pandemic world and challenge viewers to think about how technological, social, economic, and other forces may impact the who, what, when, where, why, and how of work in the near and medium-term future.
Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics, a research-based consulting firm that has been helping organizations optimize flexible and distributed work for nearly two decades. She is a trusted source of insights about the future of work for news outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and dozens of others. As a recognized thought leader, Kate was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee regarding the potential for remote work in government once the pandemic ends.
April WE:binar: Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resiliency in the Workplace
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Ashley Loftin Hyman
During the mid-2000s, the army, alarmed by the high percentage of soldiers returning from war with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), launched research that led to training on Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). PTG are life habits that allow people and groups to bounce back stronger from adversity.
As organizations encourage employees to head back to the office, it is critical to consider that the past two years have been traumatic, and we can’t just pretend everything and everyone is the same. Employees are maxed-out, over-stressed, and on edge. While he says there is no magic bullet, author Rex Miller will share the principles of post-traumatic growth and resiliency that will help organizations and leaders support their teams as they head back to the office, or not. This WE:binar will distill the habits of PTG into six practical disciplines that produce energy, a renewed zest for life, and a deeper purpose that helps employees deal with stressors at home and in the office, manage burnout and ultimately build a more resilient workforce.
Key Learning Objectives:
What is Post-Traumatic Growth and its relationship with the COVID-19 Pandemic
6 Principals of PTG that produce energy, purpose, and a more productive perspective on life
How employees and organizations can use PTG to create resiliency in the workplace
March WE:binar: Reimagining the workplace: AI, immersive experiences augmented environments
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Ashley Loftin Hyman
WorkSpace Futures is Steelcase’s global research team that employs a human-centered, future-focused approach to understand the world of work in corporate, education, and healthcare environments in diverse markets and cultures. Leveraging established practices of foresight, the teams explore persistent forces of change driving shifts in work, worker, and workplace in the near and far future. Andrew Kim, the Digital Prototyping Practice Leader for Workspaces Futures, will share about emerging technology and its implications for the workplace.
Presented By: Andrew Kim
Andrew Kim leads the WorkSpace Futures, Digital Prototyping Practice at Steelcase. WorkSpace Futures is Steelcase’s global research team, comprised of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise in design, anthropology, psychology, and technology and distributed across Grand Rapids, Munich, and Hong Kong. Andrew is responsible for applying human-centered design methods to support new market strategies and product development efforts and has more than twenty years of experience developing products and services. His curiosity and passion revolve around the intersection of social behaviors, the built environment, and technology. His areas of interest include creativity, learning, and smart environments, and his project work has included collaborations with the MIT Media Lab, Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology, and the University of Melbourne.
Learning goals:
• Understanding emerging tech
• Overview of use cases
• Implications for the workplace
January WE:binar: What’s New with WE, 2022
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
What’s New with WE, 2022:
• Meet the leaders leading key WE initiatives and what’s in store in 2022
o Knowledge: WE: Learn – Workplace Strategy & Leadership Program, WE: Brief, WE:binars
o Connection: WE: Events (FF, WWP) and WE: Hubs
o Community: WE: Belong, WE: Membership and Volunteer leadership opportunities
• Participate in helping WE shape our vision for 2022
• Meet our 2022 Sponsors
• Join us! Get more involved with WE…nurture your soul!
WE value your input and ideas! See you on January 20th!
December WE:binar: Why & How To Hire Veteran Talent
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Join Cathy Miclat, CSM®, CSPO®, is Director of Talent Services with Vets2PM and Steven Crane, a 100% P&T Disabled United States Marine Corps Veteran, and founder of 360 Veteran, LLC for a discussion about the talents that veterans have; how to attract & retain veterans
• Military rank/structure
• Benefits of hiring veterans
• How to attract veteran talent
• How to identify veteran talents – Resume & Strategies
• How to interview veterans
• How to onboard & retain veterans
November WE:binar: 2020 The Year (NOT!) Everything Changed
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Frances Bruns
We’ve all heard how 2020 changed everything. While so much did change, so much did not. Learn more as Rick Denton shares…
2020: The Year (NOT!) Everything Changed – Even with the world-altering changes of 2020 (and even into 2021), fundamentals of Customer Experience did not change. Companies that…
• Listen to their customer…and ACT
• Understand that their front-line knows their customer better than anyone
• Realize the customer does NOT care about the company’s COVID excuses will use this time to emerge stronger than before.
Rick Denton
Having founded EX4CX (Execution for Customer Experience) four years ago, Rick Denton helps companies Stop Survey & Score and Start Listen & Act using Total VOC (voice of the customer) approach.
He believes the best meals are served outside and require a passport. Along with providing CX consulting and advisory services, Rick is a Keynote speaker and the Host of CX Passport, a podcast about great Customer Experience with a little dash of travel
October WE:binar: Are we there yet?
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Last October MovePlan discussed ‘The Future of Workplace’ and the workplace of choice – are we there yet?
A year on they will revisit to see what has changed and what has been learned over the last year looking forward into what the future holds. The next 1-2 years will be a ‘testing/piloting’ phase, what do we need to consider during this time, and how to navigate this. Lindsay, Vanessa, and Suki will be sharing their experiences and topics will include:
• What has been left behind and what will we bring forward?
• What still needs to be done?
• How do you incorporate choice and meet staff where they are at?
• How to use data to help with decision-making and storytelling now and into the future
September – Stakeholder Engagement in a Hyper-Connected world
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Join us as we demystify stakeholder engagement once and for all. As well as explore real ways to co-create and engage your project management communities using human-centric approaches and collaborative technology to save you time, money and the pain of ignoring stakeholder needs.
Three distinct changes of our times have impacted why, what, and how we engage:
• A digital, hybrid workforce in a post-pandemic workplace
• The democratization of knowledge and information brought about by social, mobile and cloud technology
• Complex stakeholder expectations of inclusion, diverse consultation, and co-creation when it comes to transformation
We will cover:
- Explore how engagement and stakeholder expectations have changed in a post-pandemic project landscape and what it means in a hyper-connected world
- Unpack how human-centric approaches save you time and budget as well as gets you valuable buy-in to your projects quicker and mitigates risks earlier on
- Experience, leverage and apply collaborative technology for immediate use after the session to stand out and engage the modern project stakeholder
- Learn from the world of change management, human-centered design, and technology from REAL life case studies/research
- Hacks to empower your project team to digitally engage stakeholders in a hybrid universe of work
August – Managing the future workplace – New strategic skills and understandings to manage the emergent workplace
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Join host Andrew Mawson, Founder of global management consultancy, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) and co-author of the IFMA-adopted Workplace Management Framework (WMF) to learn more about the true impact of the Pandemic on ways of working, thinking and managing people and teams.
Andrew Mawson
Founder & Managing Director, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA)
Andrew will reveal how Covid-19 added a new lens to the traditional workplace ‘experience’ – changing the behaviours and habits of people around the globe, resulting in greater collaboration and integration between core disciplines, as well as the emerging role of ‘Chief Experience Officer’ (CXO).
The WMF has been adopted by IFMA, as part of AWA’s Workplace Strategy and Leadership Program, to create awareness, enhance skills, support cross-disciplinary leadership required in the new Hybrid normal.
Andrew Mawson is Founder and Managing Director of Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA).
He’s a leading pioneer, thinker and speaker on matters ‘work and place’, experienced at bringing together the worlds of business strategy, organisational design, workplace strategy, workplace design and change management.
In his consulting work, Andrew has led workplace change management programmes with respected clients including Invesco, Unicef UK, the UK Cabinet Office, Willis Towers Watson, Direct Line Group, National Rail, Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch, BUPA and Interserve.
He’s a major contributor to the Advanced Workplace Institute (AWI) and has directed research programmes on the Post Pandemic Workplace, Knowledge Worker Productivity, Managing the Agile Workforce and Cognitive Performance.
November WE:binar: 2020 The Year (NOT!) Everything Changed
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Frances Bruns
We’ve all heard how 2020 changed everything. While so much did change, so much did not. Learn more as Rick Denton shares…
2020: The Year (NOT!) Everything Changed – Even with the world-altering changes of 2020 (and even into 2021), fundamentals of Customer Experience did not change. Companies that…
• Listen to their customer…and ACT
• Understand that their front-line knows their customer better than anyone
• Realize the customer does NOT care about the company’s COVID excuses will use this time to emerge stronger than before.
Rick Denton
Having founded EX4CX (Execution for Customer Experience) four years ago, Rick Denton helps companies Stop Survey & Score and Start Listen & Act using Total VOC (voice of the customer) approach.
He believes the best meals are served outside and require a passport. Along with providing CX consulting and advisory services, Rick is a Keynote speaker and the Host of CX Passport, a podcast about great Customer Experience with a little dash of travel
October WE:binar: Are we there yet?
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Last October MovePlan discussed ‘The Future of Workplace’ and the workplace of choice – are we there yet?
A year on they will revisit to see what has changed and what has been learned over the last year looking forward into what the future holds. The next 1-2 years will be a ‘testing/piloting’ phase, what do we need to consider during this time, and how to navigate this. Lindsay, Vanessa, and Suki will be sharing their experiences and topics will include:
• What has been left behind and what will we bring forward?
• What still needs to be done?
• How do you incorporate choice and meet staff where they are at?
• How to use data to help with decision-making and storytelling now and into the future
September – Stakeholder Engagement in a Hyper-Connected world
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Join us as we demystify stakeholder engagement once and for all. As well as explore real ways to co-create and engage your project management communities using human-centric approaches and collaborative technology to save you time, money and the pain of ignoring stakeholder needs.
Three distinct changes of our times have impacted why, what, and how we engage:
• A digital, hybrid workforce in a post-pandemic workplace
• The democratization of knowledge and information brought about by social, mobile and cloud technology
• Complex stakeholder expectations of inclusion, diverse consultation, and co-creation when it comes to transformation
We will cover:
- Explore how engagement and stakeholder expectations have changed in a post-pandemic project landscape and what it means in a hyper-connected world
- Unpack how human-centric approaches save you time and budget as well as gets you valuable buy-in to your projects quicker and mitigates risks earlier on
- Experience, leverage and apply collaborative technology for immediate use after the session to stand out and engage the modern project stakeholder
- Learn from the world of change management, human-centered design, and technology from REAL life case studies/research
- Hacks to empower your project team to digitally engage stakeholders in a hybrid universe of work
August – Managing the future workplace – New strategic skills and understandings to manage the emergent workplace
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera
Join host Andrew Mawson, Founder of global management consultancy, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) and co-author of the IFMA-adopted Workplace Management Framework (WMF) to learn more about the true impact of the Pandemic on ways of working, thinking and managing people and teams.
Andrew Mawson
Founder & Managing Director, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA)
Andrew will reveal how Covid-19 added a new lens to the traditional workplace ‘experience’ – changing the behaviours and habits of people around the globe, resulting in greater collaboration and integration between core disciplines, as well as the emerging role of ‘Chief Experience Officer’ (CXO).
The WMF has been adopted by IFMA, as part of AWA’s Workplace Strategy and Leadership Program, to create awareness, enhance skills, support cross-disciplinary leadership required in the new Hybrid normal.
Andrew Mawson is Founder and Managing Director of Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA).
He’s a leading pioneer, thinker and speaker on matters ‘work and place’, experienced at bringing together the worlds of business strategy, organisational design, workplace strategy, workplace design and change management.
In his consulting work, Andrew has led workplace change management programmes with respected clients including Invesco, Unicef UK, the UK Cabinet Office, Willis Towers Watson, Direct Line Group, National Rail, Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch, BUPA and Interserve.
He’s a major contributor to the Advanced Workplace Institute (AWI) and has directed research programmes on the Post Pandemic Workplace, Knowledge Worker Productivity, Managing the Agile Workforce and Cognitive Performance.
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”.
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 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.
