Real estate should contribute to business goals, employee wellbeing and community impact if you are doing it right. Aligning your companies’ needs with business goals is essential to being successful in maximizing the bottom line and also providing your employees the space they need to be productive. For many this will be a living, breathing strategy given the flexible and dynamic nature of business needs in today’s market. Regardless of the size and scale of your company, it is important to understand how your footprint is serving the business and how this can be improved. 

• Analyze your portfolio to right size as needed including assessing surplus space, considering relocation and factoring in amenity add ons   
• Evaluate performance metrics alongside space utilization and efficiency measures to understand how and how much of your space is being used (and at what level) 
• Hear best practices to align company goals with your greatest asset to address cost savings or investment goals, while still improving employee experience and enhancing the brand 
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How do you develop a strategy that allows you to scale and repeat successes so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel?  Let’s brainstorm together! 

Sponsored by: Kolar Design

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Workplace leaders in 2025 are rethinking how space is utilized and how success can be measured to optimize their space and investments. It is important to understand overall traffic of the office, but knowing exactly how that space is being used opens a host of opportunities to better serve your people.  

• Consider the uses of open space data and other measurable factors that can help you right size various spaces and meeting rooms to fit your employees' behaviors 
• Explore design elements that can enable diversified programming in the office  
• Brainstorm how you can implement experiential drivers into your strategy   
• Leverage different vendors and local providers that you can bring onboard to support your goals  
• Identify measures of impact to assess the effectiveness of strategies and design elements applied 

Benchmark with peers to discuss best practices to build a human-centric workplace that inspires and drives meaningful engagement.  

The workplace is often the frontline of organizational change—where culture shifts, technology rollouts, and policy updates become tangible. Yet without thoughtful alignment between physical environments and strategic change efforts, even well-intentioned initiatives can fall short. This workshop explores how change management principles can be embedded into workplace strategy to improve adoption, minimize disruption, and elevate the employee experience. Attendees will engage with real-world scenarios, uncover practical tools, and leave equipped to translate complex change into meaningful outcomes through the lens of space, service, and experience. 

Key Takeaways: 

Learn how to apply change management frameworks to workplace initiatives, from space redesigns to new ways of working 

Discover methods to engage stakeholders and foster adoption across diverse workforces and environments 

Gain actionable techniques to communicate, sequence, and support change in both physical and cultural dimensions of the workplace 

George Hadgiannis

Former AVP, Head of North America Workplace
Sanofi

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