Past WE:binars

August: Beyond the Blueprint 

Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kristen Reed

Join us in August to hear from an amazing speaker and thought leader, Thokozani Mabena. Thokozani is deeply committed to synthesizing global design challenges, paving the way to a transformative future through innovative solutions.

During his session, “Beyond the Blueprint: Activating new frontiers in the future of work, life & self, you’ll immerse yourself in the intriguing exploration of the enigmatic Rubix Paradox, designed to engage the intellectually curious and experienced mind. In this captivating and interactive journey, uncover the implications of decentralization for the future of work, life, and time. Navigate thought-provoking, challenging, and inspiring themes that spark curiosity and broaden perspectives. Dive into the complexities and possibilities of a decentralized future, reshaping traditional paradigms and propelling us toward a more interconnected and empowered future.

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July: The Post-Pandemic Workplace 

Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kari Smith

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends already underway, such as greatly increasing the adoption of telecommuting, online shopping, and distance learning. The recent pandemic has also shown that, for the first time in human history, we can now get almost any goods or service delivered to our door or our devices. This represents a profound change in how a majority of the American population will live and work, and how downtown and residential districts will function in the future.

Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture, the Director of the Minnesota Design Center, and the former Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. One of the most published authors in his field, he has written 12 books, over 75 book chapters, and over 550 journal articles. His newest book, Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World (Routledge, 2022), addresses the impact that pandemics have had on our lives in the past and what we are experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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June: Gensler’s 2023 Latest Global Workplace Research Findings: What’s Working? What’s Not, What’s Missing 

Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kari Smith

Work and the role of the office have fundamentally shifted. How can facility managers know what facility investments really matter? Janet and Elaine Asal will present highlights of Gensler’s latest global workplace research findings to share how people are now working and identify what is working/not in the workplace. More importantly, they will share what employees say they need to be more productive and what’s missing that would increase their willingness to return more often.

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May: The Unintended Consequences of Hybrid Work

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kristen Reed

The pros and cons of remote and hybrid workplace strategies have been debated for decades, but the suddenness of the shift gave rise to impacts that were never anticipated. This session will explore how these unintended consequences, both positive and negative, are playing out for employers, employees, the environment, and society.

Presented by Kate Lister

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April: The Future of Work Is Here. Here’s What We’re Doing Differently 

Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kristen Reed

In this session, we peel back the curtain on an internal consultant working session – Kristin is picking Zak’s brain before she kicks off a new exciting project with a new client. Join them as they explore what two years of talk about “Future of Work” and “New Ways of Working” has actually meant – what has actually changed?

Zak and Kristin will discuss and distill the steps we’ve made forward (or sideways) in how we approach our projects, touching on topics such as:

• The pendulum swing between Project Sponsorship and Governance
• The macro context – a focus on cost-saving and the urge to “break down silos”
• What KPIs and data really matter
• Provoking clarity to cut through the noise

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March: Redesigning Work Around the Human Brain and Body 

Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kari Smith

This presentation will explore how designing work to optimize the brain and body is the key to unlocking human potential. We will show how insights from these fields can inform the creation of work environments that help individuals thrive. We will also provide a clear path forward for organizations adopting these principles. The time for change is now – let’s design a future of work that truly supports the well-being and productivity of all employees.

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February: Three Views from Design Researchers in Practice: Partnerships, POE’s & Translating Research 

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kristin Reed

It is becoming more and more common for design firms, manufacturers, and industry partners to conduct research in practice to understand design’s impact and contribution to the knowledge base. Now more than ever, there is interest among design researchers in practice to share their strategies and outcomes. Our session goals are twofold: (1) recognize the varied approaches to research in practice, and (2) consider how design research can positively impact the practice, our clients, and the industry.

This webinar will include leading researchers in practice who will guide attendees through three mini-workshops on the topics:

• Partnership models between academia and practice
• Pre- and post-occupancy evaluation
• Translating research into practice.
Join us to explore how companies are conducting and using design research in practice.

Facilitator
Cynthia Milota – Ware Malcomb
Presenters
Partnership Models
B. Sanborn – DLR Group
Sam Coats – HITT Co LAB

Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs)
Nicholas Watkins – Gensler
Renae Rich – HGA

Translating Research into Practice
Sally Augustin – Design with Science
Danya Hanky – HGA
Cameron Contreras – Blue Cottage/Cannon Design

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January: WE in 2023

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Kristin Reed

To support YOU, our devoted WE members, WE are kicking off 2023 with a bang!  During this highly interactive webinar, you will meet the WE leadership team, learn about the initiatives underway and highlight opportunities for you to leverage your membership and the WE network and get more involved.

WE also want to hear from you on the topics, issues of greatest interest, and much more so come prepared to help us co-create our WE in 2023 strategy.

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December: What Will the Facility Leader Role Look Like Next Year?

Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Frances Bruns

Join industry experts Sandra Panara, Director of Workplace Insights for Relogix, Mike Petrusky, Director of Podcasts at Eptura, and Jan Johnson, VP of Workplace Strategy for Allsteel, for a panel discussion about what the role of facility leader will look like in the new year. The discussion will focus on trends and concerns, and actionable steps we can all take without yet knowing the big picture. The WEbinar will be moderated by Frances Bruns, Principal at IA Interior Architects.

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November: Making a Real Difference on ESG: Effective Strategies that do More Than Check Boxes

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Hosted by Frances Bruns

Join leading ESG experts Gary Miciunas, Circular Design Practitioner at Cuningham, Darlene Pope, President North America at Planon, and Katherine Huh, Partner at PwC for a lively discussion about how you can make a meaningful difference for your organization (and the planet!) on achieving your ESG goals. Moderated by Lisa Whited, author of Work Better. Save the Planet.

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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

oin 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

Learning goals:
• Understanding emerging tech
• Overview of use cases
• 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.

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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!

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December WE:binar: Why & How To Hire Veteran Talent

Date: Thursday, December 16, 2021
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

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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.

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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

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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 

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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:

1. Explore how engagement and stakeholder expectations have changed in a post-pandemic project landscape and what it means in a hyper-connected world
2. 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
3. Experience, leverage and apply collaborative technology for immediate use after the session to stand out and engage the modern project stakeholder
4. Learn from the world of change management, human-centered design, and technology from REAL life case studies/research
5. 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 

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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 

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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 

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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.

May: What you need to know before you invest in FM software solutions

Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

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Digitalization is shaking every business worldwide; therefore, numerous solutions are provided by Proptech startups and traditional software providers.

Do you find yourself thinking:

• What do we need to be aware of before buying new solutions for optimizing our processes, services, and properties?
• How can we find the right mix of solutions for our needs?
• How can we get the most out of these solutions?

Martin Ruppe will share his knowledge and guide you on what to think about when investing in new technologies and will show you how extensive digital solutions for organizations can become.

Martin Ruppe, MBA

Martin Ruppe’s background in interior design, architecture, and business informatics led him to the field of facility management and workplace strategy. Since then, he works as a specialist in implementing integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) solutions, as well as CAD and space management tools, business intelligence, system integrations, and data quality.

Mr. Ruppe serves for the IFMA Workplace Evolutionaries as European WE hub leader is an active member of the Austrian IFMA Chapter, and leads the Austrian Forum for Arbeitswelten.

April: Workplace Metrics Telling the Work/Life Story in an Ever-Changing World 

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

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What does occupancy data tell us during these ‘forced remote working’ times? As homeworking is becoming the norm, offices globally lay empty. But are they really? What can the data tell us today about the last few months and changes in our work activities? What strategies were used to keep employees engaged and performing at acceptable levels?

Let numbers tell the tale: from Perception to Reality! Based on 15 years of historic data, collected in over 42 countries and in a multitude of industries, Vincent le Noble will guide you through insights and workplace metrics that tell the story of Workplace Metrics impacting Work-Life in an ever-changing world.

Vincent le Noble

Vincent le Noble is the founder and CEO Measuremen . He has dedicated himself to improve work-life worldwide by providing data on the use and behavior within the work environment. Vincent takes great pleasure in sharing his insights with Real Estate, Facility Management, Human Resource Management, and IT-management Professionals. Before he started Measuremen he worked at a number of international organizations and has more than 20 years of experience in the workplace industry.

 

March: Co-Creating Sustainable Villages that Build Systemic Empowerment & Re-Imagine Real Estate 

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

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Work, eat, live, learn and play. These are terms we so often hear and talk about when we are developing great workplaces and workplace strategies. Often, we are looking at these elements through the lens of productivity, but what if we are limiting ourselves? What if we looked through the lens of the wider community and of social equity?

The vision of an eco-village came from a personal mission to bridge the gap that exists between rich and poor, the informed and the untaught, the entrepreneur and the everyday citizen. The Bridge is a project that focuses on cooperation, collaboration, and community in everything it does. From the way we build to the way we work, eat, live, learn and play. With inspiration from Milton S. Hershey, Nipsey Hussle, and Charles Mully, Garry Gilliam Founder of The Bridge found a way to better society through the built environment.

Join us for a fireside chat with Garry Gilliam, former NFL athlete and founder of The Bridge, Kristen Fulmer, Founder of Recipric and Chief Sustainability Officer for The Bridge, and Benedict Dubbs, head of Murray Associates Architects and Senior VP of Architecture at The Bridge.

Garry Gilliam, former NFL athlete and founder of The Bridge, a new project of developing “eco-villages” designed to revitalize inner-city communities nationwide. The Bridge acquires abandoned properties such as shopping centers, malls, and schools and is a completely sustainable mixed-use “eco-village” with housing, retail, co-working, urban agriculture, education center, and entertainment. The Bridge just broke ground on its inaugural location in Harrisburg, PA, and has an aggressive national expansion plan to cities such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Newark Detroit and Seattle.

Garry prides himself in his hunger for knowledge and love for giving back to his community. Having attended the Milton Hershey School and graduated from Penn State with multiple degrees (Business Development, Advertising and Psychology) he has always shared a love for bettering our society as a whole. His five seasons spent playing in the National Football League with the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers allowed him to build strong connections both on and off the field.

Kristen Fulmer is a sustainability expert, focused on maximizing performance and promoting occupant health and wellbeing within the built environment. In 2019, Kristen founded Recipric, a partner to sports organizations seeking support to visualize their sustainability strategy (their largest client is Major League Baseball- working with them to bring their sustainability practices to match the UN’s sustainability goals) develop objectives, and connect with experts to enact positive change. Prior, Kristen led Sustainability Advisory for WeWork’s Global Sustainability Team, where she facilitated sustainability services between WeWork and Fortune 100 Enterprise members.

Kristen holds an MS in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas’ School of Architecture and a BS in Public & Urban Environmental Affairs from Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture. Kristen is a LEED AP O+M, ID+C, ND; a WELL AP; a Fitwel Ambassador; a TRUE Advisor; and an EcoDistricts AP.

In addition to Recipric, Kristen is also the Chief Sustainability Officer for The Bridge, a sustainable development company founded by NFL athlete, Garry Gilliam. The Bridge seeks to eliminate systematic oppression by revitalizing inner-cities nationwide through sustainable “eco-villages.” The Bridge has an aggressive expansion plan to be in eight cities including Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Birmingham, Phoenix, and Houston by 2025. Kristen also sits as a strategic advisor to EcoAthletes, inspiring athletes to use their voices and platforms to raise awareness on climate change.

Benedict H. Dubbs, AIA, LEED AP leads Murray Associates Architect, P. C. with over 30 years experience. He joined the firm in 1984 and has been a Principal since 2000. Benedict is involved in most project phases, with a particular focus on programming, planning, and sustainable design. Benedict has a varied client base and specializes in the Corporate and Education Sectors. A graduate of Millersville University, with a degree in Industrial Arts, he also received his Master’s Degree in Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Benedict has served as an adjunct professor in HACC’s Architecture Department for 9 years; was a former trustee for Harrisburg Academy and a recent member of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber Board of Directors. Benedict is currently a member of the Corporate Affiliate Working Group for the Association of Independent College and University Association (AICUP), the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Philadelphia Chapter, Green Building United, and Preservation Pennsylvania.

February: What the Science Tells Us About How to Succeed With a Hybrid Remote Strategy

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

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Most organizations will emerge from the pandemic with a new attitude toward remote work but few will adopt an all in-office or all remote strategy. In this session, Kate Lister, President of Global Workplace Analytics will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of a mixed remote/in-office work model with Dr. Sally Augustin, Principal at Design With Science, and Terri Griffith, the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and Vice President of ISSIP.

Terri Griffith, Ph.D., holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Terri Griffith, Ph.D., holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and is Vice President of ISSIP, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals. Terri helps people and organizations accelerate performance by reinventing practices for both the short and long term. She spent two decades in the Silicon Valley and, in 2012, was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri brings evidence-based leadership and innovation to organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100. She shares these ideas through books, academic publications, terrigriffith.com, and freelance work (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review). Her most recent research takes on a “bottom-up” approach to automation, including artificial intelligence.

Sally Augustin, Ph.D., Principal, Design With Science

Sally Augustin, Ph.D., is a practicing environmental psychologist and a principal at Design With Science. She integrates science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical outcomes/experiences. Her clients include design firms, manufacturers, service providers, trade organizations, design user groups, and others, worldwide. Sally is also the editor of Research Design Connections, which reports and synthesizes the findings of recent and classic research in neuroscience, cognitive science, and other social sciences that designers can apply in their work—in everyday language. Augustin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the author of several books, and her work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Kate Lister, president, Global Workplace Analytics

Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics, a research-based consulting firm that has been helping communities and organizations optimize the employer, employee, and environmental outcomes of flexible and distributed work for more than a decade. Her perspectives on how Covid-19 will change the way people work are among the most widely quoted in the world and have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and dozens of other respected news outlets. She was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the expansion of telework in government post-Covid-19. Kate leads the research efforts for Workplace Evolutionaries, curates the WE:Brief, and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board.

January Flow Theory: How, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations get into the ‘the zone.’ 

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Cristina Herrera 

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Flow Theory: how, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations get into ‘the Zone’

Dr. Weintraub is the founder of the Flow Group, an organizational and business development consulting firm, and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at Hofstra University and the City University of New York School of Professional Studies. For the past several years, Dr. Weintraub has been researching Flow Theory – how, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations get into ‘the Zone.’

The presentation will explore a holistic perspective of states and traits which contribute to well-being, engagement, and performance at work. Outlining concepts such as grit, mindfulness, mind-wandering, and flow, Dr. Weintraub will describe how these concepts may be interconnected such that experiencing one state may facilitate or debilitate the ability to experience the others – which in turn affects the way we feel, engage, and perform in the workplace.

The presentation will highlight the existing literature on these constructs, as well as Dr. Weintraub’s research in the field. Dr. Weintraub will describe how participants can develop grit and learn to self-regulate these states in order to leverage their potential benefits and mitigate potential downsides. In addition, Dr. Weintraub will discuss how the current COVID-19 may be affecting worker’s ability to access these states and potential strategies for facilitating optimal states despite current challenges.

Presenter:  Dr. Jared Weintraub

For the past decade, Dr. Jared Weintraub has been working with individuals and organizations to create and maintain happy, healthy, and productive workplaces. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a BA in Psychology, holds a master’s degree in I/O psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Washington, D.C. Campus), a Ph.D. in Applied Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University, and is certified as a Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR). He has worked with start-ups and organizations across various industries, providing internal and external consulting, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams. Dr. Weintraub is the founder of the Flow Group, an organizational and business development consulting firm, and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at Hofstra University and the City University of New York School of Professional Studies. For the past several years, Dr. Weintraub has been researching Flow Theory – how, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations get into ‘the Zone.’

December WE:binar –The Regenerative Workplace: Beyond Sustainability Toward Circularity

Date: Thursday, Dec 17, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

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C-Suites are declaring ambitious 2030 sustainability goals. Sustainability Officers expect contributions all across their enterprise. This WEbinar will prepare FM leaders for this strategic conversation. The Regenerative Workplace is an evolutionary step toward business models and principles of a circular economy. Learn how this transition will fundamentally change the design and management of the workplace in this decade of action.

Presenters: Eric D. Johnson with Allsteel, Senior Workplace Advisor

Gary Miciunas with National Workplace, Director Cuningham Group Architecture

 

November WE:binar – Pandemic Pandemonium! Business Leaders Stretch to Re-Imagine Strategies for Achieving Business Goals and Inspiring People

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Date:  Wednesday Nov, 11 2020
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Hosted by IFMA

IFMA’s recent Delphi study (July 2020) identified Human Resources as a critical discipline poised to lead organizations through Workplace Strategy development and Workplace Transformation. Tune in for our panel of international HR, FM and Workplace experts who will share their experience and point of view.

Today, business leaders are having to re-imagine strategies for achieving organizational goals.  How are organizations balancing crisis management, risk mitigation and delivering results along with the challenge of re-imagining the world of work? How can Workplace Strategy help accelerate the journey to achieve business goals and support workforce satisfaction and productivity?

Key take-aways from this important conversation include:

• Learn how organizations are assessing current challenges and setting future vision/priorities
• Gain insights into the role of HR and crisis management teams in developing workplace strategies
• Learn how organizations are translating current challenges into positive outcomes…even opportunities!
• Lessons learned and View of the Future of Work

 Moderators:

Pat Turnbull, MA, LEED AP, IFMA Fellow President – Workplace IQX
Clark Elliott, Senior Consultant – Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA)

Panelists:

Kerry Smith, Director of People & Organizational Development – British Heart Foundation
Cansu Huseyin, Senior Human Resource Generalist – R.J. O’Brien
Christy Trank, Senior Benefits Analyst – R.J. O’Brien
Linda Murdix, Global Director, Facilities – R.J. O’Brien

 

October WE:binar – Future of Work, Where Do We Go From Here?

Date: Thursday, Oct 15, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

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Join us for a discussion on taking the next steps in creating and implementing the future of work.  We will explore the various assessment points needed to support workplace strategy changes and how to successfully create an implantation plan to focus on people impacted by these changes.  We will draw on various case studies and open discussion on the spectrum of changes and responses to move forward with the Future of Work, adding our own experience as MovePlan, a company successfully operating with a distributed workforce for over 34 years.

Talking points

• The Future of Work is no longer an aspiration or further down the road. We all recognize our workplace requires change today, as we’ve spent the last few months in response mode on an immediate need to change how we work.
• We will discuss ways to assess, strategize, plan and implement, which will enable change and impact the way your people, teams, and organization approach work going forward
• Using real-life examples to illustrate success and challenges with implementing change, we will explore ways to increase success in achieving new ways of working and how to sustain for the long term
• Lastly, the future is a moving target, we must be capable to adapt and modify how we work in order to manage all impacts to our workplace and work-life

Preseners: Suki Reilly, Lindsay Peters, Kim Giles

 

September WE:binar – Adaptive Change for the Future of Work

Date: Thursday, Sept 17, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

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Society is in upheaval. We are in the beginnings of fundamental shifts in the ways we work, live, and play. From COVID-19 to racial justice and Black Lives Matter, we are in a time of deep social transformation. Nothing will go back to how it was, but we also don’t know where we are all going to end up. We are in an in-between state, a neutral zone between old and new, where anxiety and uncertainty are the name of the game.

This webinar presents an approach to dealing with that uncertainty when doing workplace transformation projects. This WE:binar draws on the Adaptive Change model and Veldhoen + Company’s newly released global data research project, which surveyed 29 workplace transformation projects around the world. It shows how the physical, technological, and cultural aspects of workplace transformation come together to holistically meet the emergent nature of our world now and into the future.

Presenters: Luc Kamperman & Julian Chender

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August WE:binar – WE Leader talks to Congress on remote work post-COVID-19—Insights from her testimony

Date: Thursday, Aug 20, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:On July 29th, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing titled, “Lessons Learned from Remote Work During COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space?” Workplace Evolutionary, Kate Lister, was invited to testify by the Committee Chair, Senator Barrasso. In this special webinar, WE Leader, Pat Turnbull will interview Kate about the experience, what it may mean to the future of government office space, the implications for the private sector, and what WE can do to help steer the conversation about the future of work in government and beyond.

Interviewer: Pat Turnbull

Pat Turnbull founded Workplace-IQX in recognition of her passion for strategic, organizational, and workplace design as important drivers in shaping corporate culture, amplifying human performance, and accelerating enterprise success. WP-IQX helps businesses link vision, strategy, and workplace (physical & virtual) in order to deliver exceptional user experiences (UX) and enhance business results. Read More…

Presenter: Kate Lister

Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics, a research-based consulting firm that has been helping employers optimize the employer, employee, and environmental outcomes of remote work for more than a decade. In July of 2020, Kate was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the expansion of telework in government post-COVID-19. Read more…

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June WE:binar – Taking On Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Conversations with Workplace Leaders & How You Can Make A Difference

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Lisa Whited will be sharing her findings from an engagement with Leaders in Amsterdam that is all part of a mission to encourage those in our industry to take active steps to engage with Climate Change.

At the World Workplace summit in 2019 in Phoenix, and at World Workplace Europe 2020 in April, Lisa Whited and Chris Hood offered an overview of the shifting dynamics around us and, in particular, the increasing concern across the globe with regard to Climate Change. Building upon these conversations, in this session Lisa is asking attendees to dive deeper. This is part of our mission to encourage those in our industry to take active steps to engage with Climate Change. We know that many professionals have innovative ideas. We are equipping them with a way to identify and explore these ideas in their own organizations so they can inspire others to make a difference.

“Please have your mobile phones available for the session as we will be using Mentimeter. You will enter www.menti.com in your browser and add the code 68 42 15.”

Presenter:

Lisa Whited, Senior Associate, Advanced Workplace Associates

Lisa has a passion for improving workplaces and processes. She is a change management consultant and workplace strategist who is driven to make a dent in the abysmal Gallup statistic that 70% of people are disengaged at work. Lisa works with leaders who want to make positive change for their people and for the planet.Lisa’s work focuses on ensuring all voices are heard in a change process.

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May WE:binar – Designing for Mindfulness and Neurodiversity in the Modern Workplace

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

We are also living in a time of increased numbers and awareness about individuals with neuro-sensitives and special needs, such as ADHD. In fact, 1 in 8 people are considered neurodiverse but fewer than 50% know it. But these individuals can be high energy, out of the box thinkers, excel in a crisis, and be bold problem solvers. Not only is designing to be inclusive the right thing to do, there is a compelling business case for it as well. As we are constantly connected, and the in-flow of information seems never-ending, the inability to disconnect is causing a dramatic increase in stress levels amongst workers today. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that ‘techno-stress’, the stress of constantly being on and overwhelmed by technology, will be one of the biggest health issues in the coming decade. To help all people, neurotypicals and neurodivergents, function at higher levels and feel refreshed we must design intentionally to achieve mindfulness in the workplace. We need to create environments that can help accommodate all, enable neurodiversity and creating truly inclusive workspaces. This session will showcase how to create spaces that are more physically and culturally inclusive for people with a wide spectrum of neurological conditions to allow them to thrive.

Presenters: Komal Kotwal and Pam Light

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Special WE:binar – Findings from “The Global Work-from-Home Experience Survey”

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Kate North

Description:

Results from the Global Work-from-Home Experience Survey are in!

This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The Global Work-from-Home Experience Survey was launched in April to answer many of the questions on the minds of employers, employees, workplace designers and strategists, corporate real estate executives, facilities managers, and many others.

– What can we learn from the work-from-experience during Covid?
– What worked? What didn’t?
– What the priorities should be toward making work-from-home work better?
– And perhaps most importantly, how will the crisis change how and where people work, the need for office space, office design, work practices, and more?

Our guests will be Dr. Anita Kamouri, co-founder of Iometrics and Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, who developed and analyzed the survey. Its distribution represented an unprecedented collaboration by WE and IFMA with other industry associations and employers.

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April WE:binar

Moving Towards the New Normal after the Global Work-from-Home Experience

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

How will we work? What is the role of the workplace and how will it change? What can you do now?

We are in the midst of a crisis that we can’t fully understand, yet we know things will never be the same. In this WE:binar, we offer an opportunity to begin to imagine a new future. Please join us for a highly-interactive panel discussion with WE thought-leaders to explore the “new normal.” Together, we will discuss how we want to work, the role of policies, place, and what we can do to prepare for the return to work.

You can help us learn from this crisis by taking the Global Work-from-Home Survey before the webinar!

Moderator:  Kate North, VP Workplace Advisory, Colliers and Global Chair of WE

Panelists:

• Kate Lister, President of Workplace Analytics and WE: Know Leader
• Eric Johnson, Sr. Workplace Advisor, Allsteel, and North America WE Hub Leader
• Anita Kamouri, Co-Founder, Iometrics and WE: Know Contributor
• Nancy Harris, Founder, Restart Consulting and Host of The Intersection Podcast

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Europe WE Hubs: What WE Know for Sure?

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT
Hosted By: Kati Barklund and Martin Ruppe

Description:

In celebration of World Workplace Europe, WE gathered the European WE Hubs together to explore “What WE Know for Sure” as it pertains to the transformation of work. This global research initiative has gathered workplace strategists, digital technologists, designers, scientists, researchers, and many more together, from each Hub to explore this powerful question, validate it with evidence and distill it into a powerful idea. WE believe the culmination of each of these ideas will represent the most holistic view available from Europe at the moment. Hubs included in this exploration and webinar: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland and UK.

In this energizing webinar moderated by Kate North, Global Chair of WE, and Kati Barklund, Global WE Hub Lead, our WE Hub leaders will pitch their hubs “What WE Know for Sure”-idea, backed with evidence. Shortly and energeticly in just 3 minutes per idea pitch. Immediately following the pitches, we give a short summary and the audience will be able to prioritize (using Menti) these responses to represent the collective thinking of the audience present at the webinar, followed by a Q&A session.

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March WE:binar

Data Informed Workplace Solutions

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Chris Jerde brings data science to the discipline of workplace strategy so clients can understand the opportunities and risks specific to their portfolio and develop internal data-driven processes to inform decisions.

In this webinar, we will learn what problems can be informed with what types of data, and what differences these data insights make. We will explore the uses data from survey scores, badge swipes, on-site observation, attrition rates, and even unstructured text. Case studies from Microsoft and Amazon will also be highlighted.

Presented By:

Chris Jerde

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Feburary WE:binar

Facilities Can Leverage the Employee Experience in a Dispersed Workplace

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

With more teams moving to dispersed work, few companies take the time to understand the impact this has on the employee experience. This 1-hour session, for facilities/change managers, will share research and best practices that outline 3 key ingredients that keep employees engaged and teams connected as the way we work continues to evolve. Today many facilities leaders are seeing their new, spaces sitting empty as employees prefer to work from home instead of leveraging activity-based work habits. We will share the new three key ingredients for facilities success in a dispersed and mobile organization. This interactive session will share tools that all facilities managers can use.

Presented By:

Trina Hoefling & Kathy Kacher

Trina Hoefling has been transforming the workplace virtually since providing remote management training in 1984 for an international firm’s engineers. Trina is an accomplished thought leader with passion for helping people and organizations work together better. An organization development and transformational change consultant; strategic facilitator and team coach. She released Working Virtually: Transforming the Mobile Workplace, 2nd Ed, in 2017.

Kathy Kacher, President of Career/Life Alliance Services, (CLAS) and Cofounder of The SMART Workplace, is a workforce transformation expert with a focus on workplace flexibility, open workspace change management and work/life integration. She enables organizations to successfully manage and innovate through complex structural and cultural change. Particularly skilled in conducting organizational diagnostics; leading cultural integrations, branding & change initiatives; advising and coaching leaders; employee engagement & leadership development processes. Her successful track record focuses on partnering with senior teams and key talent to create competitive advantage through people.

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January We:binar

Workplace Predictions for 2020: What Lies Ahead of Us!

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Join us for a conversation with four of our WE leaders to discuss their predictions and top Workplace trends for 2020!

Presenter:
A Panel of Workplace Evolutionaries Community Leaders

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November WE:binar

Why and How Learning is Changing – On Campus and Online

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

We are excited to be joined by Elliot Felix the Founder and CEO of brightspot strategy. brightspot is a higher education strategy firm on a mission to make the student experience more engaging and more equitable by better connecting people, places, and programs — on campus and online.

Elliot will talk about the demographic, economic, and technological changes facing higher education and how colleges and universities are adapting by enabling active learning, supporting impact-driven research, making student services more seamless, and fostering more diverse and inclusive communities.

Presenter:
Elliot Felix, Founder of brightspot strategy

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October WE:binar

Designed for Learning: Applying Best Practices from Educational Settings

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Learning experience design is pivotal to creating learning environments that support learners, educators and the community. While research on student-centered learning design still has room to improve, what do we know so far about how research in education and the built environment come together? Caitlin will touch on a number of facets of designing for learning across settings including libraries, school classrooms, universities and work spaces. We will explore the current demand for active learning spaces, the importance of planning for the future, rising safety considerations as well as the importance of broad stakeholder input in the design process.

Caitlin Lindquist, a former public and private school teacher, has her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver. She has worked with educators in arts education, developed and led professional development sessions for teachers and organizations and continues to research, present and publish on curriculum theory, with emphasis on how to bring theory into practice.

Presenter:
Dr. Caitlin Lindquist

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September WE:binar

The Stress Free Workplace

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

According to Jeff Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, stress is the fifth leading cause of death at work. So what is causing us this stress? The list is long! It could be a bad commute, a disagreement with a colleague or boss, crazy deadlines, fear of being fired, taking on too much responsibility, working long hours, no control over the outcomes of your work or, sadly, dealing with sexual assault or abuse from a colleague. Leigh Stringer, Principal at EYP, will share findings from her research on health and share practical ways that design and the built environment can help reduce stress and anxiety at work.

Presenter:
Leigh Stringer
Managing Principal,
EYP Architecture & Engineering

Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, is a workplace strategy expert and researcher whose work has been covered by BBC News, The Globe and Mail, Fortune, CNBC and Good Morning America. She is a Managing Principal at EYP, an architecture and engineering firm.  She is the author of two bestselling books, The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment and the Bottom Line and  The Healthy Workplace:  How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line.

Leigh is on the board of directors of Global Women for Wellbeing, an non-profit that aims to give women a voice to create better health and wellbeing for themselves, their businesses, and their communities.  She is the founder of WomanUp, an activist network of women and allies, supporting progressive causes and candidates.

Leigh has a Bachelor of Arts, a Masters of Architecture and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. Leigh lives with her husband and two daughters in Washington, DC.

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August WE:binar

Sensory Design at Work

Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Supporting teams remains a critical strategy for organizations looking to improve performance and attract talent. Designing optimal environments for group work requires an understanding of the unique needs of different types of teams and how appropriate combinations of sensory design elements can contribute to the success and wellbeing of these different team types.

Joseph White, Director of Workplace Futures and Insight at Herman Miller will review research commissioned by Herman Miller around 4 distinct team types and how sensory design elements can help sustain energy levels that align with the task at hand. He will also discuss some of the environmental stressors that affect physical, cognitive, social, or emotional wellbeing and how to develop environments that promote the health and welfare of team participants.

Presenter:
Joseph White
Director of Workplace Futures and Insight
Herman Miller Inc.

Joseph White is the Director of Workplace Futures and Insight at Herman Miller. He brings over 15 years of design experience to the company’s ongoing research into human-focused workplace design and executing strategies around those findings. He has been a member of the IIDA, earned NCIDQ certification, IDEX California certification, and LEED accreditation. Prior to Herman Miller, White served as director of strategy at Rapt Studio as well as in a variety of positions for the noted design firms HOK and FXFOWLE (now FXCollaborative).

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July WE:binar

Managing your Portfolio through the lens of Health and Wellness: Introducing the WELL Portfolio Program

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:
The WELL Portfolio program enables organizations to demonstrate their commitment to enhancing building performance and improving human well-being at scale. By applying the world’s leading health-focused building standard – WELL – across multiple buildings in a streamlined, efficient and cost-effective approach, WELL Portfolio is high impact. Designed to maximize the positive outcomes related to human health and well-being along with the value of building assets, WELL Portfolio is designed for companies at the leading edge of the movement to improve global health through better buildings.

Angela Spangler, Director on the Commercial Team at IWBI, will share emerging innovations and evidence-based research about how we can design buildings specifically to support the health and wellness of the people who live, work and learn in them.

Join us to learn how to harness the built environment as a vehicle to support human health, wellbeing and comfort.

For more information and to download the standard, visit www.WELLcertified.com.

Presenter:

Angela Spangler
Director, Commercial Team
IWBI

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June WE:binar

Moving the Needle on Workplace Outcomes Using Evidence-Based Practice

Date: Thursday, June 20, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by  Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

Despite escalating investments in workplace programs, human capital challenges have become perennial. For the last decade, talent scarcity has remained among the top five CEO concerns and employee engagement scores have barely improved. By leveraging an evidence-based approach and leaning on 150 years of science, workplace strategists have the opportunity to drive measurable outcomes for people and business. This webinar will reveal an innovative approach that allows workplace strategists to make informed decisions and move the needle on what matters.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Shreya Sarkar-Barney is the founder and CEO of Human Capital Growth (HCG), an evidence-based talent management firm. Combining science and analytics, HCG helps organizations such as Microsoft, Merck, General Mills, and Ecolab achieve better leader and talent outcomes. In 2019, Shreya was awarded the Scientist-Practitioner presidential recognition by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Shreya is the author of the book “The role of national culture in transfer of training” based on an empirical study covering 49 countries. She was a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and tenure track professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Shreya earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University.

Presenter:

Shreya Sarkar-Barney 
Founder, CEO
 Human Capital Growth (HCG) 

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May WE:binar

The New Tech Workplace

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

We are living in a time where exponential change is being driven by advances in technology. We are bearing witness to the rapid advancement of new autonomous technology, the emergence of the sharing economy and the fall of siloed space, all of which will have a profound impact on the spaces and places that we create. But in the middle of all of this, there is also a renewed sense of what is driving all this change – the desire to better enable people to live and work in optimum conditions. Hence we are seeing the parallel rise of the machine age and the rise of the human factor. These two streams are already converging in the workplace and changing not only the tools we use but when, where and how we work as well. Technologic isn’t only impacting the tech sector though. Today most companies, regardless of their sector, consider themselves tech companies, so understanding how technology is impacting us affects everyone.

Presenter:

Gordon Wright 
Director
HOK WorkPlace Practice 

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April WE:binar

Innovation is a problem of Flow and not a lack of Ideas

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell and Emily Dunn

Description:

The world is changing faster than ever — there was a time when corporations had to be convinced that innovation is important. Today, every corporation has some form of innovation, either outsourced or in-house. Why then do organizations still feel that they are not innovative enough? What’s the problem?

The key takeaway from the presentation is that Innovation failure is not a result of a lack of ideas or effort, but a lack of understanding of how ideas flow in large systems. In this talk, the speaker will share a few broad insights to consider if you are responsible for understanding innovation flow at your organization.

Speaker Bio:

Shilpi Kumar is the founder and leader of Khoj Lab where the mission is to help  organizations and innovation leaders discover new opportunities for growth and  optimize operational flows to tackle implementation bottlenecks. Before founding  Khoj Lab, Shilpi was part of the innovation kitchen at Herman Miller where she led  global research initiatives to inform and establish a point of view on the future of the  business and the future of work itself. Following which she helped GE Transportation  Digital operation and strategy teams define an integrated business process for new  product development.

Shilpi has a professional BArch from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India, Masters of Design  from the Industrial Design Center at IIT Bombay, India, and a Masters of Design  Methods from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Presented By:

Shilpi Kumar
Founder
Khoj Lab & Innovation Catalyst

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March WE:binar

Health is the New Black: “You think you know coworking, But you don’t”

Discussion Topics:
– The loneliness epidemic
– What does coworking look like from a global perspective
– Statistics on how coworking can make humans happier and more productive
– Being well is not just about physical health it’s about environment and mental health

Speaker Bio:
Liz Elam has built a career – and a thriving business – on the tenet that working one’s way up form the bottom instills tenacity, creates resilience and develops overall excellence. That belief, blended with an innovative spirit and a competitive drive has propelled her to the forefront of the coworking movement. As the founder of the largest coworking conference in the world, Liz has led the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) from inception to its current incarnation, expanding from the US to South America, China, Canada, UK, Latin America and Australia along the way. She has taken the stage in Paris Barcelona, Shanghai, Oslo, Bogota and Lisbon and spoken at SXSW on the topic of coworking for several years running.

Liz boldly forayed into the entrepreneurial world in 2010, founding Link Coworking in Austin, Texas and later expanding it into a multi-property enterprise while becoming a prominent voice in the coworking movement. She took the plunge into the then-fledgling concept after 14 years working for Dell, managing multi-million dollar accounts and emerging as one of its top sales executives. Liz sold Link Coworking to Common Desk in the spring of 2019 one of the first successful Coworking exits in the world. Liz’s coworking research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, and her work has garnered press in the Sunday New York Times, CNN, CNBC, Investors Daily, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Dwell, Huffington Post, and Inc., as well as the cover of Austin Woman. She proudly served as the first-ever president of the League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces. When she’s not promoting coworking, Liz is planning her next far-flung excursion, taking 9 plus years of sobriety with her everywhere she goes.

Having long ago overcome her fear of public speaking and more recently kicking cancer to the curb, she takes on speaking engagements from Austin to Oslo; between mentoring and consulting projects in the realms of coworking and design.

Presented By:
Liz Elam
Founder
GCUC

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February WE:binar

Creating an Innovative, Different Kind of Workplace

Date: Thursday, February  21, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

Creating an innovative, different kind of workplace: How employee motivation can drive space design and ultimately the impact of an organization’s brand.

Individuals and companies alike have unique personalities, strengths and motivations. What if we could leverage both for a new kind of workplace experience?
Using a data-driven approach, Liz will be discussing how employees’ unique motivations represent an organization’s brand and how space can be designed to reflect both.

Liz Zurek Beaudry owns Envision, a brand strategy and marketing communications firm. She recently acquired a software tool called MDNA that she uses in her work to measure culture as the foundation for her work. She’s worked with global brands such as the Muhammad Ali Center and the General Motors Foundation, and national brands like Cambria.

Presented by:

Liz Zurek Beaudry
Envision

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January WE:binar

Organizational Analytics

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

Organizational Analytics

Management is too slow. It can take months or years to evaluate the efficacy of management decisions, from org charts to training programs to workplace designs. This has fostered a myopic focus on cost and making the “right” decisions. The rapid proliferation of data about how organizations actually function from sources such as e-mail, calendars, and sensors, enables us to dramatically change our approach. Because we now have unprecedented accuracy and visibility of the organization, we can not only make better decisions up front but iterate very quickly when these decisions fail. In this webinar I’ll give an overview of this new organizational analytics approach, discuss case studies, and consider the implications for the future of management.

Dr. Ben Waber is the CEO and co-founder of Humanyze, an organizational analytics company that measures communication patterns to help companies answer specific business questions around organizational design, workforce planning, and regulatory compliance. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.

Presented by:

Dr. Ben Waber
CEO, Co-Founder
Humanyze

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December WE:binar

Shift Happens Webinar

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM CST
Hosted by IFMA Communities ESUS, IT, REAL, & WE

An interactive webinar led the Community Leaders of ESUS, IT, REAL & WE
Who will share the TOP THREE SHIFTS impacting their community of practice

Exploring 3 Top Shifts: Sustainability Speaker: Dean Stanberry 
• Renewable Energy & Smart Buildings
• Converting Data to Information and information to insight
• Wellness/Well-being
Exploring 3 Top Shifts: Technology Speaker: Ted Ritter 
• IoT impacts
• AI and Analytics (How to deal with it)
• Cyber Security
Exploring 3 Top Shifts: Real Estate Speaker: Joseph Poskie 
• Optimization of Building Performance
• Urbanization
• Space as a Service
Exploring 3 Top Shifts: Workplace Speakers: Kate North & Pat Turnbull 
• Workplace Resiliency
• Accelerating Human Performance
• Measure What Matters

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November WE:binar

Leveraging MBWA To Drive Workplace Strategy and FM Engagement

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

Management By Walking Around (MBWA) is the business management practice made popular in the 1970’s by the founders at HP and later written about in Tom Peter’s (McKinsey & Company) bestselling book, In Search of Excellence. Steve Jobs (Apple) and Howard Schultz (Starbucks) used this management discipline to stay connected with employees and customers on a daily and weekly basis with obvious great success. MBWA is the simple and powerful idea of when a leader gets out of their office and engages up close and personal to where the work is getting done – whether it’s in the office, the factory or the coffee shop.

All successful facility managers have to master the balance between being on the front lines of technical operations and knowing how to leverage workplace relationships. With today’s evolving approach to workplace design and function, organizations are facing new challenges to identify, implement and measure the impact of new strategies such as Activity-Based design, desk sharing, open workstations, flexible schedules, and the remote worker.

This presentation will discuss how to leverage the business management principles of MBWA to increase employee engagement and navigate the potential risks of a pre and post workplace change initiative. Want to dig deeper and discuss how walking and talking can benefit your leadership effectiveness? Join us for a conversation with Steve Monaco, a Corporate Real Estate Consultant who will share stories in his prior roles as a facility manager with Hines, design/build architect, and global corporate real estate lead with Motorola.

Presented by:

Steve Monaco
Managing Principal
Monaco and Company

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October WE:binar

2018 And A Half Workplace Trends

Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

Bob Fox will check in on his initial 2018 trend prediction to investigate how they are measuring up against what he is seeing in current projects and products.

Presenter:

Bob Fox, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP
Principal and Founder
Fox Architects and Work Design Magazine

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September WE:binar

“The once” ALTERNATIVE WORKPLACE STRATEGIES
The Fifth Biennial Global Benchmarking Study 2018

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

In this longitudinal study spanning ten years, you will learn the drivers, benefits and ways to measure performance of the “once alternative” ways of working that includes work from home, internal and external mobility. What started as a New Ways of Working survey (NewWOW; now legacy think-tank) was picked up by three ambitious Workplace Evolutionaries members – Chris Hood, Kate Lister and Dr. Gabor Nagy – who collected data globally from 130 organizations representing over 2.3 million employees. The webinar will summarize the major findings with five key takeaways for you to think about when considering rolling out or improving your own program. A downloadable full report will follow.

Presenters:

Kate Lister, President, Global Workplace Analytics
Chris Hood, Director, Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA)
Gabor Nagy, Ideation and Research Manager, Haworth

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August WE:binar

Optimizing the Workplace for Innovation: Using Brain Science for Smart Design

Date: Thursday, August 19th, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

In our global economy, it’s imperative for organizations to innovate. And, we know new ideas are needed to innovate. Since creativity is how new ideas originate, it makes sense that the World Economic Forum would predict creativity to jump from #10 in 2015 to #3 in 2020 as one of the top needed skills for employees. Understanding how creative ideas come about and are shared can help workplace design unlock creative potential in any organization.

Want to dig deeper and discuss how science and workplace design intersect to foster creativity? Join us for conversation with Haworth’s Beck Johnson, Global Workplace Senior Research Specialist, lead author of the whitepaper Optimizing the Workplace for Innovation: Using Brain Science for Smart Design.

Presenter:
Beck Johnson

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July WE:binar

The myth of technology and collaboration (and how to get everyone on a conference call in under 30 seconds!)

Date: Thursday, July 19th, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Chris Hood

Despite ubiquitous mobile connected devices, our productivity has decreased at the macro level and individuals still can’t perform basic work tasks in collaboration with others. David suggests an inclusive approach across people, process, technology and workplace centered on how teams commit to shared work.

Presenter:
David Slight

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June WE:binar
Anticipatory Design Strategies: Using design Strategy Yo Help Organizations From Uncertainty

Date: Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

In a business environment where every industry and enterprise within those industries are experiencing both uncertainty and disruption because of technology and the ‘sharing economy,’ it is increasingly important for workplace strategy consultants to help organizations ‘anticipate’ their future and the resulting implications for the design of their workplace. Too often one relies on benchmarking or trends which usually are inadequate. This presentation will discuss a new way of using anticipatory design strategies to uncover the ‘unknown unknowns’ and better position workplace solutions as a strategic component to assist organizations reorganize for potential disruptions.

Presenter:
Arnold Levin

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May WE:binar
Cross-Sector Trends Influencing Workplace Experience

Date: Thursday, May 17^th, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Hosted by Megan Campbell

Description:
Gary and Rob will be exploring current trends from a variety of industries and discuss how these trends are influencing the workplace experience. Industries include:
– Residential
– Mixed Use
– Hospitality
– Health Care
– Retail

Presenters:
Gary Miciunas & Rob Depp, Nelson

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April 2018
Mobility in the Workplace
Presented by Eric D. Johnson

Date: Thursday, April 19th, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Technology gives workers the ability to work anywhere, anytime. With stories about IBM and Yahoo bringing their remote employees back into the workplace, many organizations are questioning the relevance of mobility in a business environment grappling with continuous change and increasingly fast paved, collaborative work. Understanding what ‘mobility’ means to your organization, what is driving that mobility, and what data, tools, and technology are required to support mobility are all key to implementing an effective mobility strategy. This webinar will demonstrate how to find answers to those questions that are appropriate for your organization.

Hosted by Megan Campbell

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