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Making the right CRE decisions with Raphaël Morgulis.
This is the podcast where we speak with Corporate Real Estate executives to learn how they make decisions day by day to shape the next generation workplace. Hosted by Raphaël Morgulis. Presented by Locatee.
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May 3, 2023
76: Christian Schmeichel on the future of work
Raphaël is joined by Christian Schmeichel, Chief Future of Work Officer at SAP, for a holistic conversation on Employee Experience and people strategies at a leading, large-scale organization.
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Mar 8, 2023
75: Harry Morphakis on workplace, workspace and workforce
Raphaël is joined by Harry Morphakis of Accenture to discuss workplace, workspace, and workforce alignment in the enterprise (05:20), a realistic view of how technology will support a better office experience (09:30), and how employees can be willing to accept enabling information as part of a clear contract with their organizations (17:20).
We discuss best practices on how to enable data for the employee experience (29:45) and managing change as part of workplace transformation (38:20).
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Feb 15, 2023
74: Philip Ross on the reinvention of the modern office
Raphael is joined by Philip Ross to discuss his book "Unworking, the reinvention of the modern office". We talk about data and technology as the main disruptors of how the office experience is determined (07:00) and the challenge of integrating real estate, IT and HR in the modern organization to create the "super experience" of the office. We discuss the many trends shaping the modern workplace (20:50) and what 2023 will have in store for the leaders in the industry.
We then discuss how individuals and leaders need to transform themselves to keep up with these profound changes (29:19).
Later, Raphaël is joined by Michelle to try and answer some crucial questions raised by the conversation with Philip: are "full-office" mandates wrong? And how do we manage multiple generations under one roof? (37:18)
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Feb 1, 2023
73: Dan Strode on the "Culture Advantage" in the office
Dan and I discussed how Culture is a fundamental element for companies to innovate, to change, and generally thrive.
We discussed how the office and personal interactions factor in building organizational culture (00:08:01).
We talked about living culture across the organization and taking cues from high performing teams (00:18:58), and about balancing short term business and long term culture objectives (00:23:17).
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Jan 18, 2023
72: Marcus Jarl on organizations, workforces, cultures and the office
Raphaël is joined by Marcus Jarl to discuss organizations, their workforce, their culture and the office;
Alignment in the organization between a corporation's purpose, its business objectives, its leadership, workforce and culture (00:07:10); How new leadership, data, experimentation are key supporting elements in order to truly see change and transformation (00:11:02) and how this affects the purpose of the office environment (00:17:14) and organizational structure (00:20:44); Norms as the most powerful creator of change (00:29:16); Why diversity - to integrate different answers to organizational challenges (00:36:06);
Then, Raphael and his colleague Michelle offer their "Real Workplace" take on a specific subject from the conversation with Marcus - expertise perception and expectations in the workplace (40:00)
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Jul 29, 2022
71: Kristi Woolsey on the role of the metaverse in workplace experience
Kristi Woolsey is an Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group. She explains why the metaverse is a great tool in solving for the future of work, enabling collaboration across distance as well as more equity in the workplace.
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Jul 22, 2022
70: Wendy Heller on what makes workspaces useful
Wendy Heller is a Real Estate Transformation Leader at Deloitte Consulting. She shares her thoughts on how to create meaningful and effective workspace. We also discussed how and when to measure that.
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Jul 15, 2022
69: Special on the end user view
Sabine got the chance to talk to several workplace users from the LEGO Group during her time on campus and can thus share some first hand insights into actual workplace experience.
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Jul 8, 2022
68: Adrienne Rowe on extending the definition of workspaces
Adrienne Rowe is is the Head of Workplace Strategy at Raytheon Technologies. She underlines that organizations need to recognize the strong pull of flexibility in work models and notes how that should be mirrored in workplace strategy.
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Jul 1, 2022
67: Kitty de Groot on the design elements for innovative work settings
Kitty de Groot is a Product & Interior Designer and design lecturer. She explains what stimulates innovation and creativity in spatial design and why she believes the physical workspace is still elemental to company culture and productivity.
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Jun 23, 2022
66: Special #3 on the LEGO workplace symposium
In the third part of our special around the LEGO workplace symposium we are tuning into the group exchanges on the two hot topics of insights to impact spatial design and creating purposeful meetings.
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Jun 16, 2022
65: Special #2 on the LEGO workplace symposium
In the second part of our special around the LEGO workplace symposium we are tuning into the group exchanges on the two hot topics of the “Why” of workplace transformation and friction points in hybrid work.
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Jun 9, 2022
64: Special #1 on the LEGO workplace symposium
Kursty Groves and Sabine recap on what happened during the LEGO workplace symposium where the LEGO Ways of Working team welcomed colleagues from adidas, Booking.com, Ericsson, EY, Google, IKEA, L'Oréal, Mars, Microsoft, Netflix, Nordea, Spotify, and Unilever to their newly opened Campus in Billund, Denmark to talk about the future of the workplace through a post-Covid19 lens.
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Jun 3, 2022
63: Rashad Delph on the secrets of successful data analytics
Rashad Delph is Head of People Analytics at Chevron. We discuss how you move from mere data collection to powerful storytelling that supports business decisions and he shares why he thinks a diversity is key to accurate data analysis.
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May 27, 2022
62: Alexandra Sanchez on how to facilitate workplace experience
Alexandra Sanchez is Director Real Estate & Facilities for Americas at Organon. She shared their approach to branding in the office spaces and why she believes that office perks are only done well if you use them to facilitate working experience and relationships.
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May 20, 2022
61: Steve Todd on why looking at people’s patterns ultimately is about RoI
Steve Todd is the Global Head of Workplace at Nasdaq. While Steve is personally an advocate of work from anywhere, he points out how organizations can look at choice and flexibility as an opportunity for both employees and employers.
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May 13, 2022
60: Nicholas Wandera on workforce needs informing workplace decisions
Nicholas Wandera is the Real Estate Lead for Middle East and Africa at IBM. He lets us in on the specifics of new ways of working servicing an African portfolio.
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May 6, 2022
59: Rundown on the evolution of space with Sabine
Sabine goes solo and looks at the example of the first self service supermarket to draw parallels to the digital evolution in the workplace and new flexible ways of working.
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Apr 29, 2022
58: Ryan Anderson on how to find the sweet spot of the office space
Ryan Anderson is VP Global Insights & Research at MillerKnoll. He highlights that office space needs to be positioned purposefully around people’s needs. If it’s not built to accommodate many diverse groups and types of activities it will become redundant.
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Apr 22, 2022
57: Mariel Chirino on the universal question of office capacity planning
Mariel Chirino is the office manager at Locatee. She tells us about her journey opening the first Locatee office and how she continued to adapt the space to headcount growth and the rise of hybrid work and why it doesn’t matter if a company is big or small when you ask “do we have enough space”?
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Apr 8, 2022
56: Victor Maningo on what constitutes “well” in workplace design
Victor Maningo is VP Global Market Development Asia Pacific at the International WELL Building Institute. He explains the 10 dimensions of well building design and how these can help organizations focus on people & planet initiatives.
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Apr 1, 2022
55: Rundown on trending work concepts with Sabine and Lauren Dreifuss
Lauren Dreifuss is the Trend Scout & Research Analyst at Locatee. In our first Workplace Insights Series webinar we discuss the countless new concepts and buzzwords that workplace leaders will have to add to their lexicon.
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Mar 25, 2022
54: Enrique Rubio on the workplace’s contribution to human experience
Enrique Rubio is the founder of Hacking HR and host of the Hacking HR podcast. He explained how workplace experience nestles under employee experience and how to
use proxies in data and metrics to measure workplace performance.
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Mar 18, 2022
53: Rundown on the ripple effects of CRE strategy with Sabine
Sabine goes solo to map out how decisions around workplace and location strategy impact urban planning, local economy, investor landscape and state tax and why governments, therefore care about Return to Office.
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Mar 11, 2022
52: Carly Flapper the parallels between change management and directing plays
Carly Flapper is Director of Total Workplace at Cushman & Wakefield. She has a background in theater and directing and that’s why we have a look at the common traits between those two worlds.
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Mar 4, 2022
51: Omar Ramirez on why the question of office or remote can’t be binary
Omar Ramirez is an Experience Advisor. He shared why he thinks we need to look at the workplace with more nuance and treat the office like a product, from development to user feedback and adaption.
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Feb 25, 2022
50: Raimund Paetzmann on the capacities of the future office
Raimund Paetzmann is VP Logistics Network Expansion and Real Estate at Zalando. We discussed how the office will have to provide a framework to balance hybrid work mode and moments that matter for organizational culture and experience.
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Feb 18, 2022
49: Phil Simon on how to use workplace tools effectively
Phil Simon is an author, workplace technology consultant and podcast host. He goes into why we can’t simply copy our workplace behaviours into the digital world and how companies can make sure to make the most of their workplace technology.
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Feb 11, 2022
48: Mark Needham on being customer zero for the hybrid work experience
Mark Needham is EMEAR Hybrid Workleader, Webex and Workplace Transformation at Cisco. He touches upon how the workplace has become an ecosystem of technology and tools enabling individuals and teams collectively in every mode of work.
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Feb 4, 2022
47: Tonille Miller on getting to the heart of employee enablement
Tonille Miller is a Global Transformation and People Experience Leader. She emphasized that we need to move away from a profits vs. people perspective in organizations and instead use employee engagement as a strategic lever on its own and tap into the power of people enablement.
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Jan 28, 2022
46: Rundown on how to prioritize workplace transformation with Sabine
Sabine goes solo to reflect on her learnings in 1 year of “The Workplace Leader” podcast leading to the question of what to prioritize when looking at workplace transformation.
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Jan 21, 2022
45: Danielle Farage on inclusion as the key to employee retention
Danielle Farage is a Gen Z Workplace Futurist, Community Builder and Director of Growth & Marketing @Café. She reveals how the principle of inclusion is a synergy of many factors - it requires building a meaningful community, looking into innovative hiring strategies and pursuing personalization for better work life integration.
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Jan 14, 2022
44: Kursty Groves on work environments that inspire
Kursty Groves is a Workplace Strategist, Innovation Consultant, Author and Podcaster.
We talk about her findings in “The Office Chronicles” podcast, her experiences as a space coach and go into what elements contribute to innovation and creativity.
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Jan 7, 2022
43: Darren Murph on remote first principles
Darren Murph is the Head of Remote at GitLab. We talked about the importance of intentionality in building remote or hybrid work, how to sustain company culture in a fully remote environment and what you can find in the GitLab “Remote Playbook”.
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Dec 17, 2021
42: Special on how to engage and attract in a reimagined office
In a live webinar we’ve regrouped with Timothy Ahrensbach, Gloria Mamwa and Brittney Van Matre to discuss how the role of the office is changing towards an asset that is used to build work communities and create better working experiences for employees. The conversation was moderated by MaryLou Costa.
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Dec 10, 2021
41: Clare Jones on recruiting talent into a hybrid workplace
Clare Jones is a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Locatee. She gives us an insight into how her work has changed with increasing talent mobility and competing with fully remote employers. Also, she doubles down on the drivers for employee engagement.
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Dec 3, 2021
40: Elizabeth Nelson on Healthy Office Design
Elizabeth Nelson is an author, Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at Smart Building Certification. With the example of her own personal story of burnout she explains what features inclusive and healthy workplaces should incorporate and why measuring outcomes is the first step towards improvement.
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Nov 26, 2021
39: Rundown on the CRE evolution with Sabine and Raphael Morgulis
Raphael Morgulis is the Analyst Relations Manager at Locatee. In our “No Guts, No Glory” webinar we discuss the challenges of the hybrid era and how CRE needs to be brave to overcome old stigmas and embrace a new way of looking at workplace performance.
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Nov 19, 2021
38: Jens Ebbe Rasmussen on Facility Services’ share in the Return to Office
Jens Ebbe Rasmussen is Senior Vice President Business Development at Coor Service Management.
We discuss the new requirements towards facility services as a result of the pandemic and how business models for facility services have developed over the years.
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Nov 12, 2021
37: Rundown on the importance of empathy at the workplace with Sabine
Sabine goes solo to have a look at how little signs of appreciation can go a long way in enhancing employee experience.
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Nov 5, 2021
36: Tracy Hawkins on embracing a growth mindset to lead work transformation
Tracy Hawkins is Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace and Remote Experience at Twitter. She explains how remote and hybrid work need to be led by example and that true work transformation needs to go beyond real estate.
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Oct 29, 2021
35: Eva Forster, Corinne Ruckstuhl and Anna Whittlestone on Data Readiness
Eva Forster, Corinne Ruckstuhl and Anna Whittlestone work in Locatee's PreSales and Account teams. We explore the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Locatee around data readiness and they share their experiences from different organizations.
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Oct 22, 2021
34: Toby Lewis on what makes great Meeting Spaces
Toby Lewis is Senior Manager, Collaboration Strategy at Logitech. He lets us in on the research they have done around workplace behaviors and especially meeting practices.
We go into the different types of meetings, the dynamics at play and how to support these.
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Oct 15, 2021
33: Rundown on the 6 layers of workplace experience with Sabine
Sabine goes solo to breakdown the opportunities stemming from the layers concept in workplace experience.
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Oct 8, 2021
32: Timothy Ahrensbach on designing environments for your “Best Working Self”
Timothy Ahrensbach is Head of Workplace Experience at the LEGO Group. He explains how they are mapping out the six layers of workplace experience and orchestrating hybrid work with a focus on community building and “play”.
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Oct 1, 2021
31: Rundown on Workplace Performance Measures with Sabine
Sabine goes solo to breakdown the difficulties with workplace performance measures.
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Sep 24, 2021
30: Sheila Botting on using real estate as a service to create experience
Sheila Botting is Principal & President Americas Professional Services at Avison Young. She shares her lessons on how to build up for employee experience starting from the grounds of base building and company mission.
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Sep 10, 2021
29: Best Of on the Future of the Workplace and the challenges of Change Management
Featuring Jon Sheh (Johnson & Johnson),Rolf Sulen (Equinor), Jose Luis Sanchez Concha Ibarra (formerly Gensler), Nicola Millard (BT), Brittney Van Mattre (formerly Nike), Mikkel Lyngbo Nielsen (Ericsson), Patrenia Werts Onuoha (formerly Shell), Putri Realita (Danone) and Steven Bell (formerly Wella).
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Aug 27, 2021
28: Best Of on employee experience as the new critical factor
Featuring Peter Baumann (SAP), Jon Sheh (Johnson & Johnson), Roel Stroeken (Philips), Gloria Mamwa (Standard Chartered Bank), Melanie Mack (JLL), Rob Blair (Sprinklr), Nicola Millard (BT), Steven Bell (formerly Wella), Mikkel Lyngbo Nielsen (Ericsson), Rhebeckha D’Silva (Revolut) and Jenna Geigerman (Citrix).
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Aug 13, 2021
27: Best Of on Data Readiness and the constraints of the Real Estate market
Featuring Liz Burow (formerly WeWork), Roel Stroeken (Philips), Patrenia Werts Onuoha (formerly Shell), Marta Lima (Vodafone), Nadim Stub (PropTech Denmark), Rolf Sulen (Equinor), Oliver Lehmann (MindSpace) and Thomas Glatte (BASF).
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Jul 30, 2021
26: Best Of on the specifics of decision making in Corporate Real Estate
Featuring Liz Burow (formerly WeWork), Peter Baumann (SAP), Rolf Sulen (Equinor), Gloria Mamwa (Standard Chartered Bank), Rob Blair (Sprinklr), Agne Zemaite (Colliers), Thomas Glatte (BASF), Rhebeckha D’Silva (Revolut) and Jenna Geigerman (Citrix).
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Jul 16, 2021
25: Jenna Geigerman on the data journey towards compelling workplaces
Jenna Geigerman is Director Real Estate & Strategy at Citrix. She shares how they are embracing the question of future user behavior to drive their hybrid workplace strategy and what they are providing to foster the office as a compelling workplace choice.
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Jul 9, 2021
24: Rhebeckha D’Silva on CRE for High Growth Tech companies
Rhebeckha D’Silva is Global Head of Real Estate at Revolut. We discuss the differences between Corporate Real Estate in established organizations and tech companies and she speaks about Revolut’s journey to their new workplace program “RevLabs”.
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Jul 2, 2021
23: Mikkel Lyngbo Nielsen on the approach to personalize user experience
Mikkel Lyngbo Nielsen is Vice President, Chief Real Estate Officer & Head of Group Real Estate at Ericsson. He lets us in on how they are deliberately creating chaos to model the Future of Workplace and are striving to keep a cross-functional approach to shape user experience beyond the pandemic.
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Jun 25, 2021
22: Steven Bell on entwining business and workplace priorities
Steven Bell is Head of Real Estate at the Wella Company. He shares his experiences on how to define workplace strategies from a blank canvas and within the framework of financial success criteria.
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Jun 18, 2021
21: Brittney Van Matre on promoting employee engagement
Brittney Van Matre is the former Director of Workplace Strategy and Operations at Nike. She is advocating for the workplace to look beyond providing seating options to creating unique experiences to drive connection and engagement.
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Jun 11, 2021
20: Putri Realita on the dimensions of workplace experience
Putri Realita is Global Diversity & Inclusion Lead at Danone. She explains how workplace experience is built not by the office facilities alone but very much by company policies, HR processes and team leader behaviour as well.
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Jun 4, 2021
19: Nicola Millard on defining the Future of Work
Nicola Millard is Principal Innovation Partner at BT. We explore the differences of digital, flexible and hybrid working and what the common ground is. She also highlights the shifts that will be required in our work culture.
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May 28, 2021
18: Nadim Stub on PropTech
Nadim Stub is Managing Director at PropTech Denmark. We discuss technology as an enabler for workplace change and what the biggest challenges are in implementation and adoption of PropTech.
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May 21, 2021
17: Thomas Glatte on CRE strategy
Thomas Glatte is Director Global Real Estate at BASF. We go into the fundamentals of Corporate Real Estate and he shares why sometimes you still need to break business’s resistance.
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May 14, 2021
16: Agne Zemaite on evaluating drivers in the workplace
Agne Zemaite is a Workplace Consultant at Colliers and an anthropologist by education. We go into how to strike a balance between meaningful data collection and acting upon it.
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May 7, 2021
15: Oliver Lehmann on the CoWorking experience
Oliver Lehmann is General Manager at MindSpace. We dive into the world of CoWorking looking at design of space, creating and curating desirable experience and building strong communities.
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Apr 30, 2021
14: Rob Blair on scaling up and keeping agile
Rob Blair is Senior Workplace Manager EMEA at Sprinklr. He explains how they are using the flex lease market in growing their portfolio and why they always put employee experience first.
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Apr 23, 2021
13: Marta Lima on the Digital Workplace
Marta is an Innovation Manager at Vodafone. We exchange on drivers for creativity and innovation, how employee experience has changed in remote work and what can be done to support wellbeing and socializing in the digital workplace.
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Apr 16, 2021
12: Melanie Mack on CRE technology for the Return to Office and beyond
Melanie Mack is Head of CRE Technology EMEA & Digital Solutions at JLL. She lets us in on how CRE technology supports the Hybrid Workplace and how CRE managers can get ahead to prepare for Return to Office.
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Apr 9, 2021
11: Gloria Mamwa on Workplace Behaviours
Gloria Mamwa is Regional Head of Property, Africa & Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank. She shares how she is addressing the challenge of leading her team remotely and why she thinks CRE cannot wait and see but must adapt to become more agile.
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Mar 26, 2021
10: Jose Luis Sanchez-Concha Ibarra on the new design strategy principles
Jose Luis Sanchez-Concha Ibarra is Design Strategy Director for Latin America at Gensler. We touch upon the specifics of the Latin American office market and have a look at how space modeling is evolving across geographies.
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Mar 19, 2021
9: John Goldschmidt & Matt Golia on CRE in the US
John Goldschmidt and Matt Golia are operating out of the Locatee office in New York. We explore the findings of our study on CRE in the US and they share notes from their workplace experience among different companies.
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Mar 12, 2021
8: Rolf Sulen on positioning the office as a strategic asset
Rolf Sulen is Advisor Corporate Real Estate at Equinor. We dive into the challenges of conveying and measuring value contribution of the office space and ponder levers for change within CRE but also from the real estate market.
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Mar 5, 2021
7: Patrenia Werts Onuoha on crisis management and scenario planning
Patrenia Werts Onuoha is a former Real Estate Strategy and Portfolio Manager for Shell in Nigeria. We cover the topics of people’s needs, business resilience and taking the small simple step approach to embrace business challenges.
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Feb 26, 2021
6: Stève Cattin on the customer journey
Stève Cattin is the Head of Marketing at Locatee. We explore the fundamentals of both Marketing and CRE - empathy, consumer experience and data.
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Feb 19, 2021
5: Roel Stroeken on balancing Portfolio Optimization and Workplace Performance
Roel Stroeken is the Head of Real Estate EMEA at Philips. We discuss how they built their portfolio dashboard and how to tie real estate decision making to overarching business initiatives.
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Jan 28, 2021
4: Jon Sheh on engineering inclusive workplace experience
Jon Sheh is the Director of Workplace Strategy at Johnson & Johnson. We speak about how companies should support the new flexibility of workplaces, adapt workplace strategy and how to prove the selected concepts.
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Jan 28, 2021
3: Peter Baumann on merging Business, People and Location Strategy
Peter Baumann is the Global Head of Real Estate & Facilities Projects at SAP. We go into the shift of perception in Corporate Real Estate towards a more people-oriented approach and how to draw on data for workplace decisions.
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Jan 28, 2021
2: Liz Burow on building a business case for change
Liz Burow is a Workplace Design and Research Consultant and former Director of Workplace Strategy at WeWork. In our conversation we are talking about how companies can tackle the new narrative around the workplace and be bold creating environments that will cater different dimensions of workplace purpose.
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Jan 13, 2021
1: Welcome to The Workplace Leader Podcast
Welcome to the Workplace Leader Podcast!
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