The Flexible Office Economy w/ Mark Gilbreath, CEO LiquidSpace markgilbreath

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
 

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
 
 

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
 

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

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
 

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