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Join host Mark Gilbreath for The Flexible Office Economy, a thoughtful and thought-provoking podcast featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
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Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, Coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Robert Teed - VP Corporate Services, ServiceNow
What you'll hear on this episode
- First new episode since the COVID summer of 2020
- What the office industry got right and wrong over the past 18 months
- Did we misunderstand the role of the physical workplace?
- Is culture too fragile to survive beyond the workplace?
- Productivity and collaboration in new forums and mediums
- The emergence of the hybrid workplace
- The awakening of CEOs to the new role of place
- The lingering unknown of employee behavior in a new age of flexibility and choice
- Fostering collaboration across a distributed workplace
- Technology's role in replicating the watercooler moment
People and companies mentioned
ServiceNow, LiquidSpace, Frank Slootman, Snowflake, Frank Gorman, Morgan Stanley, Zoom, Twitter, Tracy Hawkins, Nutanix, Michael Phelps
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, Coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Joff Sharpe - former British Land, COO/Founder/Co-Leader Storey Spaces Ltd
What you'll hear on this episode
- The founding story of British Land's flexible office business, "Storey"
- How they approached the "make vs buy" decision
- How they measured success
- The challenges of developing a B2C brand
People and companies mentioned
British Land, Storey, Chris Grigg, John Gildersleeve, Goldman Sachs, Pepsi, Mars, John Ritblat, EQ, Boston Properties, Brookfield, Tishman, James Lowery, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, WeWork
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, Coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Dan Tangherlini - CFO at Emerson Collective, former Administrator GSA
What you'll hear on this episode
- The Govt covid response to COVID and workplace safety
- Reflections on the GSA’s pursuit of real estate efficiency and “the flexible office plan”
- The policy vs politics, the WFH vs Office debate
- Contemplating the economics of workplace health and safety
- The perils of the current alt-fact world
People and companies mentioned
Dan Tangherlini, Emerson Collective, CDC, USGBC, GSA, PBS, US Treasury Department, Obama, Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, James Gorman, Morgan Stanley, Danny Werfel, Gov Actually, Cass Sunstein
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, Coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Chris Kane - Founder, Six Ideas
What you'll hear on this episode
- Corporate real estate's transition from cost center to value creator
- Shifting the supply demand equation from provider to consumer
- The missing connection between landlords and occupiers
- Commercial real estate's beakout from analog to digital
- Real estates role to play in ESG (Ethical Society and Governments)
People and companies mentioned
Chris Kane, Six Ideas, BBC, Disney Company, Mark Thompson, Frank Becker, Mike Joroff, Corporate Real Estate: The Fifth Resource, JLL, Lisa Picard, EQ Office, Blackstone Charles Handy, Dror Poleg, Adam Neuman
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Dror Poleg - Founder, Rethinking Real Estate
What you'll hear on this episode
- Have we reached Peak Office?
- Technology leaps impacting the real estate industry
- The drivers of asset value in an age of abundance
- Learnings from WeWork
- How the change in the nature of work is driving adaptation in the physical real estate
- The effects of AI and automation
- What the "Hollywood workplace model" foretells fo the office industry
People and companies mentioned
Dror Poleg, Mark Gilbreath, WeWork, Breather, LiquidSpace, Adam Davidson, Google, Knotel, Industrious, Marriott, Intercontinental, Softbank, Adam Neuman
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Ben Munn, Managing Director Flex Space, JLL
What you'll hear on this episode
- From mailroom to Managing Director, a Flexible Office exec's journey
- The poetry of workplace
- JLL's view of the forces driving Enterprise adoption of Flexible Office
- How the status quo is being disrupted within traditional service providers
People and companies mentioned
Ben Munn, JLL, Mark Gilbreath, LiquidSpace, Gensler, CBRE, Lenny Beaudoin, Hemingway, Picasso, Regus, WeWork, Cushman Wakefield, HOK, Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, Rudin, SL Green, EQ Office
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- William Edmundson, COO Office Evolution
What you'll hear on this episode
- How the franchising model is entering the Flexible Office economy
- Insights on Office Evolution, the 4th largest Flexible Office chain in N. America
- Parallels between the Flexible Office and Hospitality industries
- Insights on how Flexible Office will perform in a market downturn
People and companies mentioned
William Edmundson, Office Evolution Mark Gilbreath, LiquidSpace, Global Workspace Association, Ray Schultz, Marriott, Cambria, Choice Hotels, Heidrick & Struggles, Hampton Inn, Starwood, Ritz Carlton, Abbey Office Centers, Chris Brown, Cushman Wakefield, Regus, WeWork
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Amit Ramani, Founder and CEO Awfis Space Solutions
What you'll hear on this episode
- The unlimited market opportunity that traditional Serviced Office providers missed
- High growth AND profitability in the coworking industry - yes it does exist
- How coworking was exported from America and reinvented to thrive in the Indian office market
People and companies mentioned
Amit Ramani, Awfis, Mark Gilbreath, LiquidSpace, HOK, Nelson India, Ozzie Nelson, Petra, Regus, Servcorp, Bank of America, American Express, Neuhouse, WeWork, JLL, Colliers, CBRE, Hana, Cushman Wakefield, Prius Capital, Softbank, Corenet, IFMA, RMZ, Coworks
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Jamie Russo, CEO Global Workspace Association and Host of "Everything Coworking"
What you'll hear on this episode
- Preview of the Global Workspace Association (GWA) annual conference, Sept 18-20
- Evolution of the flexible office industry
- The challenges faced by new space operators
- Reactions to the WeWork IPO
- The implications of building owners entering the flexible office market
People and companies mentioned
LiquidSpace, Everything Coworking, Global Workspace Association, Regus, Stratis, HQ, Lisa Picard, EQ Office, Tishman Speyer, Brookfield, Swig Company, Boston Properties, Industrious, Justin Stewart, JLL, Ben Munn, Emily Watkins, Scott Homo, ServiceNow, Robert Teed, Automattic, Awfis, Amit Ramani, Citizen Space, Bond Collective, Common Grounds, Office Evolution, Serendipity Labs, John Arenas, WeWork, Knotel, Hines, Cushman Wakefield, CBRE, Avison Young
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Join host Mark Gilbreath for "THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY" a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate, featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.
This weeks guest:
- Jacob Bates, CEO of CommonGrounds Workplace
What you'll hear on this episode
- Solving for the unique needs of the enterprise occupier
- Is the Flexible Office market currently oversupplied or undersupplied? Yes!
- How flexibility is being engineered into the built landscape
- The distinction between Workplace-as-a-Service and Coworking
- Have landlords over-amenitized their buildings?
- Are we at "Peak Office"?
People and companies mentioned
CommonGrounds Workplace, LiquidSpace, CBRE, NAI, Coldwell Banker, Nike, Cigna, Unity, Tecno, Marriott, Emar Properties, TechSpace, Industrious, Jacob Bates, Craig Loeber, Mohamed Alabbar, Bob Davidson