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Listen as Brady Mick, Strategic Design Leader at American Structurepoint, discusses the role of workplace design in helping teams collaborate and do their best work.

Written by Sid Majumdar and narrated by Gayle Crew. The corporate cafeteria supply chain is broken, and the fix may already be growing inside your building. Food prices have surged 23.6 percent since 2020, supply chain disruptions now hit every 3.7 years on average, and 30 percent of all produce spoils before reaching an end user.

Written by Emma Ascott and narrated by Gayle Crew. Coworking was built on a simple promise: Work near other people and good things will happen. Coworking spaces have been known to inspire ideas, friendships, referrals, energy.

Listen as Cliff Booth, Founder and Chairman of Westmount Realty Capital, discusses the factors driving decisions in industrial real estate today.

Written by Bob Varga and Mette Shenker and narrated by Gayle Crew. Hospitality-inspired design has become the standard for modern offices. For the past decade, principles and trends from hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality spaces have brought comfort and functionality into today’s office design. The era of hospitality-inspired design helped employees and guests feel welcome, but today it can feel flat, inauthentic, and difficult to execute on a budget.

Written by Tim Hatton and Narrated by Gayle Crew. After a decade outside Birmingham, engineering consultancy Arup returned to the city center. The move reconnects the firm with clients and community while accommodating 900 people – each with different working needs – and signals its renewed commitment to the Midlands.

Listen as Varun Kohli, Director of Sustainability, and Matt McDonald, Office Sector Leader, both with Corgan, discuss a landmark sustainable design project. Their client, Wells Fargo, has opened the largest net-positive corporate campus in the US.

Written by Rob Kubiak and Narrated by Gayle Crew. You can almost hear it already: the sales call on speakerphone, the laughter from the kitchen, the coffee machine or Keurig, the project huddle that somehow migrated right behind your chair. It is the ambient soundtrack of modern work, and it is exhausting a lot of people.

Written by Brita Everett, Joo Oh, Jessica Parrish, and Matthew Somerton. Narrated by Gayle Crew. In the high-speed world of finance, milliseconds and micro-decisions matter. Yet peak performance depends on recovery as much as reaction time. Neuroscience shows that even brief moments of respite can restore working memory, sharpen focus, and regulate stress responses – without slowing output. For today’s financial firms, the competitive edge lies in workplaces that balance intensity with recovery, creating environments that sustain both people and performance.

Listen as Rachel MacCleery, Executive Director at the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, and Luke Lanciano, Director of Sustainability for Tower Companies, discuss harnessing renewable energy.

A discussion on challenges and pro tips to executing projects successfully in Asia. Based on real life (sometimes humorous) experiences of two industry veterans.

Impact of AI on Occupiers from Newmark

2026: A Look Ahead

Savills Global Occupier Services leaders from North America, EMEA and APAC discuss how to leverage CRE strategy and the evolving role of Global Capabilities Centers to meet talent, innovation and cost objectives.

Savills leaders in global enterprise solutions and industrial and logistics discuss the synergy of office and industrial CRE strategy and the role of 3PL’s with DHL America’s head of transaction strategy.

A discussion led by Savills CEO of Global Occupier Services, Rick Schuham, of how AI can be deployed and integrated into lease administration and portfolio planning workflow to increase efficiency and add value .

In this episode, Bill Harter, Principal Solution Advisor at Visual Lease and CoStar Group, shares how leading organizations are shifting from lease accounting compliance to portfolio optimization in corporate real estate. As organizations move past meeting new accounting standards, the conversation is shifting toward using data and market insights to make smarter portfolio decisions. Bill shares how real estate leaders can evaluate lease economics, anticipate market changes, and align their portfolios with future business needs to drive greater efficiency and resilience.

If you think you know what older workers want—or what they can deliver—prepare to have those assumptions turned upside down.

This session will highlight emerging trends in biophilic design, workplace wellness, and corporate sustainability, offering forward-looking strategies that property owners and occupiers can implement today.

If organizations want to maximize every inch of their real estate, they must move beyond traditional space planning and embrace real-time, data-driven decision-making.

Traditionally, CRE decisions have relied on fragmented data from multiple sources—lease management, occupancy analytics, HR, and financial reports.

What if we told you that your workplace has a hidden menu? Not just the one in the cafe or pantry, but the one made up of your environment, culture and overall foodscape.

Understand how to redefine innovation as the next essential human resource—one that allows us to create more than we consume, build trust in a world of doubt, and choose wisely when the stakes are highest.

In this session, we don’t want to give you trends, just facts. Start with helping understand the science of innovation followed by a showcase of Space Matrix’s diverse tenant project benchmarks from across APAC.

Setting team members up for success by breaking down siloes and mentoring them in a way that works for them. Learn more through this short session!

Non-profit organizations have long thrived by blending people-first approaches, good business practices, and creative funding strategies to advance their missions and drive growth.

Decades of research shows that in-person interactions play a critical role in fostering innovation. What does this mean for work today, so much of which is distributed and conducted over asynchronous collaboration platforms?

In today’s competitive landscape, employers and landlords are looking beyond conventional amenities to create workplaces that foster employee well-being and retention.

A major component of successful hybrid, return-to-campus, and recruitment/retention strategies is the physical environment that workers can return to.

Mute unveils the findings of a study analyzing the impact of modular and adaptable architecture on office fit-outs.

As organizations navigate workplace transformation, technology and applications can multiply and become disparate - leaving big picture value realization on the table. Learn how to align strategies through this session.

Listen as Rob Naso, Managing Partner and Head of US Asset Management at BGO, discusses what corporate tenants are looking for in new office space.

Listen as Varun Kohli, Director of Sustainability at Corgan, discusses sustainability and designing with mass timber.

Written by Kieran Mackie and narrated by Gayle Crew. Corporate security is not just about protection; it is about brand representation. High-profile institutions come with high-level scrutiny, and security providers face a unique challenge in these spaces: maintaining high-level security services while delivering five-star hospitality

Written by Keith Perske and Cristina Banks and narrated by Gayle Crew. What is the office workplace? How should it be designed and rolled out? This year? In five years? Answering these questions accurately has been the driving engine of our industry.

Written by Sid Majumdar and narrated by Gayle Crew. This comprehensive analysis examines the economics of build versus partner strategies for organisations facing unpredictable fluctuations in headcount, providing data-driven insights for informed strategic decision-making.

Written by Venkat Neelakantan and narrated by Gayle Crew. In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, downtime isn’t just inconvenient – it’s expensive.

Written by Chris Teng and narrated by Gayle Crew. For too long, managing corporate real estate (CRE) simply meant keeping costs down, ensuring operations ran smoothly, business as usual, and preventive maintenance.

Written by Kyle de Bruin and narrated by Gayle Crew. The workplace is changing, but for employees under the age of 25, the office remains central to their working experience.

Listen as Guy Douetil, Director of GWD Advisors, discusses some of the key trends affecting corporate location decisions.

Listen as Rene van Camp, Chief Hospitality Officer at ISS, discusses the importance of providing hospitality-level service in today's workplaces and corporate facilities.

From our CRE As A Strategy Leader Thought Leader Partner, Cushman and Wakefield. This conversation with Despina Katsikakis, Carol Wong, and Prudential External Link’s Sheela Parakkal explores how corporate real estate and HR can join forces to create people-centric workplaces that drive engagement, well-being and performance. They dive into strategies for aligning real estate with employee needs and embedding culture into workplace design to boost productivity and deliver long-term business value. Their conversation offers fresh insights to help you reimagine your workplace strategy and create spaces that empower both your people and your business.

Listen as Shraeya Madhu, Manager of Decarbonization with the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate talks with Jean Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, Head of ESG & Public Affairs at Kereby, on “behavior change to achieve net zero.”

Written by Ricardo Chacon and narrated by Gayle Crew. This article shows corporate real estate managers, CFOs, and workplace leaders how to locate – and defend – the “just-right” zone of space that maximises employee experience while minimising cost and carbon.

Written by Stanley A. and narrated by Gayle Crew. In India’s rapidly evolving corporate landscape, real estate is now the second-largest cost for businesses, right after workforce expenses.

Written by Sid Majumdar and narrated by Gayle Crew. India’s workforce is at a pivotal juncture, marked by the simultaneous presence of five generations: the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. This generational diversity, while a powerful driver of innovation, presents unique challenges in workplace design, communication, and management

Written by David Hickey and Narrated by Gayle Crew. A major pharmaceutical company recently spent 18 months searching for the perfect site for a $2-billion cell-therapy manufacturing facility.

Written by Henrik Jarleskog and narrated by Gayle Crew. Let’s be clear: There is no substantial return-to-office movement. Despite the headlines, the mandates, and the noise, what’s actually taking shape is quieter, smarter, and more enduring.

Written by Emma Brown and narrated by Gayle Crew. Organisations are facing a tough balancing act: harsh economic headwinds, rising competition, and the ongoing challenge of maintaining productivity in a hybrid world