Workplace Trends: Planning for People

Nigel Oseland, Workplace Unlimited

Nigel is a workplace strategist, change manager, environmental psychologist and author with 10 years research and 15 years consulting experience. He helps occupiers redefine their workstyle to create space-efficient and cost-effective workplaces that enhance business performance.

Nigel specialises in strategic briefing and alternative working; he creates workplaces that improve collaboration, enhance creativity, respond to new organisational structures, and deliver maximum value. Through his career at DEGW, AMA Alexi Marmot Associates, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and Johnson Controls, Nigel has worked with many corporate and public sector organisations developing their workplace strategies, standards and processes.

Read more on Nigel at www.workplaceunlimited.com

Nick Searl, Argent

Having joined in January 2008, Nick is a Partner of Argent LLP. His main priority is leading the commercial teams at King’s Cross who deal with the definition, strategy, leasing and management of the office and retail components. 
He is also closely involved with the wider branding and promotion of King’s Cross.

At a corporate level, Nick is involved in securing new development opportunities for Argent and is jointly responsible for marketing and promoting the business. Before joining Argent, Nick worked with Chelsfield and European Land at Paddington Basin where he delivered The Point and Waterside buildings for M&S and Orange respectively and was also the development manager obtaining planning permission for the 1.8 million sq ft Merchant Square development.

Read more on Nick at https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nicksearl

Martijn De Liefde, The Kgotla Company

Martijn is the founder of The Kgotla Company in 2003. A flexible freethinker. 22 years of work experience is divided into the following areas; Brand and Identity Management, Real Estate Management Management, the new workplace, change management and leadership development. 

Read more on Martijn here - https://nl.linkedin.com/in/deliefde

Kerstin Sailer, The Bartlett School of Architecture

Dr Kerstin Sailer is Reader in Social and Spatial Networks at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and Director of Research and Innovation at Spacelab. She is fascinated by the impact of spatial design on people and social behaviours inside a range of buildings such as offices, laboratories, hospitals and schools.

An architect by training, her research interests combine complex buildings, workplace environments and space usage with social networks, organisational theory and organisational behaviour. At the Bartlett she leads the module ‘Buildings, Organisations, Networks’ in the MSc ‘Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities’. Kerstin has won several awards and scholarships for her research and has been invited to present her work at a variety of national and international conferences and events. She runs the blog http://spaceandorganisation.org and comments as @kerstinsailer on Twitter.

Adrie De Vries, Philips Lighting

Adrie is a Lighting Application Specialist at Philips Lighting, based in the Netherlands. 

His specialties include product development, project and marketing support from a lighting application point of view with a main focus on office lighting.

Read more on Adrie at https://nl.linkedin.com/in/adrie-de-vries-72355011

Laura Taylor, Philips Lighting

Laura is Design Director for Innovation at Philips Lighting

The constant drive in my career has been to support businesses and technology partners in using design thinking and creativity for innovation.

During my 20 years as a design professional I have gained a wide experience in different market sectors and been involved in all aspects of identifying opportunities and bringing them to market.

Specialties:Design for strategy and innovation; creating programs and scoping projects. 

See more on Laura at https://nl.linkedin.com/in/laura-taylor-32224a

Sandra van den Bos, Van den Bos Communicatie

Sandra van den Bos is an independent change manager/ consultant and is specialized in assisting companies like AkzoNobel, implementing new ways of working, whether it’s from fixed to flex workplaces or towards a broader scope like Activity Based Working. Going “flex” or allocating spaces to activities, it looks easy, however the impact is huge and takes time to get accepted. She takes people on a journey, creating an atmosphere where people feel heard and understood. Inform, facilitate, enthuse and engage are keywords in this process.

Sandra has a Master degree in Economics and is a member of the jury of the Winning Workplace Award by Jones Lang Lasalle.

Paige Hodsman, Saint-Gobain Ecophon

Paige has eighteen years of experience in the commercial design and construction industries with a focus on sustainable workplace solutions. As Concept Developer for the office sector at Sain-Gobain Ecophon, she is responsible for collating and disseminating information on the latest research and development in the fields of office acoustics, interior design, architecture and environmental/sustainable construction.

Neil Usher, Sky

Neil is Workplace Director at Sky.

He is experienced property professional working in the sparsely populated area at the intersection of workplace, HR and social business. Neil has successfully designed, delivered and managed workplaces in over thirty countries in a variety of industry sectors.

Neil has an established personal blog (workessence), - he says becuuse "I am interested in what I do and want to talk about it and learn from others. I conceived the #workplaceblogs Twitter hashtag as a place to find great thinking, brought pecha kucha to the UK property industry, and may just be the UK’s only workplace poet".

"Use social technologies to extend my network to areas beyond property and the workplace in order to see what I do from different perspectives. I value creativity, openness, and the courage to experiment and change."

Read Neil's blog at www.workessence.com
Follow Neil on Twitter at @workessence

Anne Lennox-Martin, FMP360 Ltd

Anne has worked with large blue-chip companies and public sector bodies and some of the major FM training organisations and service providers specialising in FM change management, customer service excellence and collaborative working within supply chains.

Her consultancy offering ranges from facilitating and participating in strategy workshops to transforming front-line services. Experienced in managing both hard and soft services she writes specifications, runs procurement projects and assists with contracts and performance management systems. For in house clients she can trouble-shoot failing contracts, re-design operational delivery models and deliver bespoke FM training to address competence gaps.

She also offers short term focused interim support to selected clients requiring change management or emergency cover.

She was one of the original seven students to achieve the Master’s Degree in Facilities and Environmental Management at University College London in 1993 and the first (and, for a long time, the only!) BIFM Fellow to achieve the BIFM Qual, now CBIFM, in 2001. In 2007 she was voted one of the most influential women in FM according to FM World, where she is a long-standing member of the magazine’s editorial advisory board. A founder member of BIFM’s Women in FM group, with Lucy Jeynes and Marilyn Standley, Anne has supported the group at events and as a mentor on the WiFM scheme. She is well-known as a conference speaker and event contributor and in 2010 wrote the BIFM Good Practice Guide to Customer Care, the definitive text on the subject.

Andy Swann, BDG

I've spent the last 36 years learning how to be a human. I think a lot about our relationship with ourselves, our work, each other, the organisations we align with and the way they work. Through experimentation and seeing work or ‘the career’ as an ever-evolving adventure, my own work has developed in different, interesting directions.

I'm the Founder and Curator of All About People, a unique event that explores how when people thrive, organisations thrive too. 

As BDG architecture + design’s Change Maker, I develop workplace change programmes that connect organisations and people with their work and workplace, collaborating with major clients to implement my Discover, Imagine, Create method. 

I also deliver bespoke creative workshops and events that unlock organisations and their teams through Simple Better Human. 

Iain Smith, Network for Skills

Iain has a 25 year-long track record in helping individuals and organisations and worked on engagement, motivation and development of people to meet personal and business missions. He has held senior roles in Transport for London, The Mayor’s Office in London and the Government’s Learning and Skills Council. Large projects have seen him prove the competence of over 15,000 staff in a safety critical environment, widen out his HR experience by running high volume recruitment, and develop safety systems in Australia.

He currently works with both large and small organisations as a consultant, coach or interim Director, and sits on a number of Government and Industry Boards & Councils.

He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Member of City & Guilds of London Institute

Paige Hodsman, Saint-Gobain Ecophon

Paige has eighteen years of experience in the commercial design and construction industries with a focus on sustainable workplace solutions. As Concept Developer for the office sector at Sain-Gobain Ecophon, she is responsible for collating and disseminating information on the latest research and development in the fields of office acoustics, interior design, architecture and environmental/sustainable construction.

Su Butcher, Just Practising

Su Butcher trained in Architecture at the University of Liverpool and worked in affordable housing before becoming an academic and teacher of architecture students. She then managed three successful architects practices in London and the South East; culminating in five years with Barefoot & Gilles.
 
Su’s online networking began in 2004 and she has developed a reputation as the go-to person for people who want to work with architects online. She has been writing and speaking about social media in construction since 2009.
 
In 2011 her blog about architects JustPractising won the first Be2camp Award for Best AEC Social Media Blog, and in 2012 the ArchitectMap iPhone app (developed with Mark Schumann) won the Woobius/Building Centre Built Environment App of the year in the ‘Best Useful Tool or Guide’ category.
 
Su now spends her time consulting on social media strategy, talking to product manufacturers about how to sell to architects, and teaching anyone who wants to know how to use Linkedin, Twitter and Blogging to support their clients and get more business.