The Workplace
Leader
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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Latest episodes
76: 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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75: Workplace, workspace, workforce: the future of the employee experience
Harry Morphakis is a senior manager for technology consulting at Accenture. In this episode, we discuss the profound impact of technological advances on the employee experience and how the workplace is becoming a cog in a larger machine dedicated to elevating EX.
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74: "Unworking" or the reinvention of the modern office
Philip Ross is the founder and CEO of UnWired and Unwork, and the author of the book Unworking, the reinvention of the modern office. In this episode, we discuss the profound changes he witnesses in the industry and we predict some of the more salient trends in the near future.
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73: The "Culture Advantage" in the office
Daniel Strode is Group Director of Culture and Strategy at Banco Santander, and the author of The Culture Advantage. We discuss the intricacies of culture and the office, and how organizations need to foster culture to innovate, change and generally thrive.
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72: Organizations, workforces, cultures and the office
Marcus Jarl is an Associate Partner for Workforce Advisory and EY Sweden. He discusses alignment in the organization between purpose, business objectives, leadership, workforce and culture.
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71: 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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70: What makes workspaces useful
Wendy Heller is a Real Estate Transformation Leader at Deloitte Consulting. She shares her thoughts on how to create a meaningful and effective workspace. We also discussed how and when to measure that.
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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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68: 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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67: 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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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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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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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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63: 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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62: 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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61: 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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60: 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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59: Rundown on the evolution of space
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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58: 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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57: 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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56: 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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55: Rundown on trending work concepts
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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54: 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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53: Rundown on the ripple effects of CRE strategy
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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52: 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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51: 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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50: 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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49: 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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48: 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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47: 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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46: Rundown on how to prioritize workplace transformation
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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45: 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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44: 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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43: 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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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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41: 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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39: Rundown on the CRE evolution with Sabine and Raphael Morgulis
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38: Facility Services’ share in the Return to Office
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37: Rundown on the importance of empathy at the workplace
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36: Embracing a Growth Mindset to Lead Work Transformation
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34: 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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33: Rundown on the six layers of workplace experience
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32: Designing Environments for Your “Best Working Self”
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30: Using real estate as a service to create experience
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29: Best Of on the Future of Work and the challenges of Change Management
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28: Best Of on employee experience as the new critical factor
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27: Best Of on Data Readiness and the constraints of the Real Estate market
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26: Best Of on the specifics of decision-making in Corporate Real Estate
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25: The data journey towards compelling workplaces
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19: 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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18: 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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17: 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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16: 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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15: 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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14: 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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13: 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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12: CRE technology for the Return to Work 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 Work.
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11: Workplace behavior
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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10: 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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9: Corporate Real Estate 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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8: 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 for the real estate market.
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7: 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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6: 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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5: 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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4: 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 proof the selected concepts.
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3: 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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2: 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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1: Welcome to The Workplace Leader Podcast!
Making the right CRE decisions with Sabine Ehm. 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 Sabine Ehm.
Presented by Locatee.
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