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Chris Herd , Founder & CEO of   Firstbase , joins Bold   Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss remote first mentality and the future of office work. You may know Chris from his consistent social media posts, but in this episode you’ll get to understand Chris’s vision for the #FutureOfWork - where he expects more people will be empowered to do better work than ever before - and why so many office cust...

Melanie Jones and Todd Simpson , from Berkshire Hathaway company CORT , join Bold  Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss Furniture-as-a-Service (FaaS).  In this episode Melanie shares how the term Furniture-as-a-Service was coined, then her and Todd go on to tag team some real life examples of how landlords are partnering with CORT to deliver value to their mutual office customers. We dive into some...

In this episode Caleb, Jonathan and Dave talk about COVID’s impact on the office market, the hybrid work model, whether companies will shrink their office footprint as a result, and what customers are saying they want from office buildings going forward. Jonathan Pearce from Canadian based real estate investor and developer Ivanhoé Cambridge , who manage of billions of dollars worth of assets glob...

Joe Walton , Cofounder and Managing Partner of London-based Fight or Flight , a dynamic B2B media company helping brands raise the pulse and give people goosebumps, joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss the challenges of growing a business during a lockdown, benefits of remote and why he plans to have an office for his team post pandemic. Enterprise companies make all the headlines, but th...

Michele Schnieder , Senior Vice President of Workplace Services for Salesforce , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to share insight into their recently launched “ success from anywhere ” program and how her team, who is responsible for the workplace experience for 57,000 employee s across more than 100 offices globally , are rethinking the role of their real estate. Salesforce is a massive customer...

Alex Turner , Strategic Advisory for CBRE , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss his report on Hybrid Working and how it will affect office real estate. What if the real estate industry taught people how to be successful working remotely? Would that be counter-intuitive? Instead of standing on our soapbox and yelling for people to come back to our offices, Would it be more strategic if we...

Francesca Brady , CEO of AirRated joins  Bold  Founder,  Caleb Parker , to share how her company is helping asset managers improve the wellbeing of their real estate customers, and leverage this to win business. As more and more companies move to a hybrid world where workplace choice is ubiquitous, customers who are "voting with their feet" will choose to work where they feel most productive, and...

David O’Coimin , CEO of The DO Company joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss the ingredients of neuro-inclusive spaces,  and his workspace invention called Nook . As Space moves from product to service, it’s crucial that we understand our customers and we put them at the center of the universe. Employees have never been more empowered to tell their companies what they want from their workp...

Andrew Carne , bp ’s Global Workplace Procurement Manager & Ciaran Delaney , CEO of MeetingsBooker.com join Bold Founder, Caleb Parke r to share insight into their partnership and how bp has balanced the wellbeing of their team members while maintaining their strategic pillars of safety and sustainability. Andrew shares how bp is evolving their portfolio strategy for hybrid working to empower thei...

Mark Gilbreath , Founder and CEO of LiquidSpace , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss why he believes we’ve reached peak portfolio. Mark says “infinite workplace” enables work from anywhere to proliferate, and as a result 80% of enterprise customers in the US will significantly reduce their leased office portfolios.  We learn about the new LiquidSpace Enterprise solution , and hear stori...

Ben Munn , Managing Director and Global Lead of JLL ’s flex space solutions joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss the big 30-30 number: JLL predicted 30% of all office space will be flexible by 2030. The two explore the Work From Anywhere ( #WFA ) movement, what JLL’s customers are saying, and what this means for office landlords. Ben says we’re moving towards a world where “the office” is...

Daan van Rossum , Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of workplace experience operator, Dreamplex , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , virtually from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where the future of work is full speed ahead. Get ready to lean in... Daan shares how Dreamplex is helping fast growing companies of 20-200 people compete against the best companies in the world for talent through their “ Workpla...

Basil Demeroutis , Managing Partner of FORE Partnership , a pan-European real estate investor and developer, joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to kick of Episode 1 of Season 4. Basil shares his passion for sustainability, as FORE will be delivering one the first net zero carbon buildings in London , England.  We learn how FORE becoming a B-corp real estate investor helps their assets solve proble...

We're back for Season 4 of the #WorkBold Podcast ! Caleb Parker , Founder of  Bold , is back to challenge the status quo in commercial real estate on the only podcast in the world dedicated to the future asset class called Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS). Now downloaded in 50 countries, each week Caleb chats with the leading experts in commercial real estate to prepare you for the new world of service...

A bonus episode for Season 3. Our seasons consist of 10 episodes, but a few weeks ago Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , joined Jo Meunier to record an episode of The Future of Work podcast , which is published by Allwork.space , one of the world’s leading publications dedicated to the future of work, including content around Space-as-a-Service. In this episode you’re gonna hear background on the Bold b...

Chris Early , Estates and Development Manager for Telefónica  UK , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to talk about the future of work and how he expects commercial real estate to evolve in the coming years. Chris believes on average we’re all going to need less space post-Covid. He says he expects lease terms to shrink and permit more flexibility, and asks "how efficient is it for a company to pr...

Daniel Kraft , Partner at Stronghold Invest , the leading property advisory, asset Management, fund management and PropTech company in Northern Europe, joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , from Stockholm, Sweden, to talk property company strategy around #PropTech and Space-as-a-Service . **The Group manages €40 billion Euros of commercial real estate and has 495 million square feet across seven coun...

Chief Marketing & Development Officer Andrea Pirrotti and Director of Real Estate , Emily Larson , from US-based Space-as-a-Service brand, Office Evolution , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share why they believe commercial real estate is no longer in the property business. In this episode you'll gain insights into how Office Evolution is growing their brand across U.S. suburban markets thro...

John Arenas , Founder and CEO of the upscale, hospitality-based workplace brand, Serendipity Labs , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share insights on how Serendipity Labs is helping landlords future proof their portfolios through a "manchise" model. (This isn't his first rodeo - scroll down to see his bio) Serendipity Labs is one of the fastest growing corporate coworking brands with 35+ loc...

Robert Wolstenholme , Founder of Trilogy Real Estate and his tag team partner,   Laurence Jones , Trilogy’s Head Of Asset Management join Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share how Trilogy puts the customer at the center of the universe to drive higher yields for their investors. Trilogy is a London-based real estate investment and development business with a reputation for repositioning overlooked...

Andy Pyle , Head of UK Real Estate for KPMG , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to chat about valuing Space-as-a-Service income streams within real estate assets. Andy believes the Space-as-a-Service mindset is going to end up being 100% of the real estate market. He says Covid has driven corporate occupiers to ask why they have offices, and many occupiers will give space back to landlords via br...

Evelyn Lee , Editor for PEI Media joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to discuss her article on how to value office buildings with Space-as-a-Service. Evelyn just published a research piece on valuing Space-as-a-Service assets in PERE , the Private Real Estate Magazine in PEI's portfolio. Read article here: https://www.perenews.com/how-to-value-flex-office-investments-covid-19/ Representatives from t...

Joanna Turner , Head of Property Research for Canada Life Asset Management (recently rebranded), joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to talk about how Canada Life is evolving their assets for hybrid working. Joanna says the future of work doesn’t mean reduced demand for commercial real estate. Working from home and going to the office will go hand in hand.  But she says demand for Space-as-a-Service...

David Cairnes , Senior Vice President - Office Leasing for CBRE in Toronto, Canada, joins Bold Founder Caleb Parker to challenge commercial real estate to bet on Space-as-a-Service .  He says it doesn’t matter what the capital markets or landlord community wants, customers want flexibility and service, so if you’re in commercial real estate you need to evolve in order to stay relevant. He believes...

Chief Exec of NewFlex , Steve Jude , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to share his story and insights leading the UK’s largest Space-as-a-Service operator deploying a hotel-style management agreement model. Steve’s a veteran of Space-as-a-Service and has personally been involved in 70 management agreements . In this episode you will learn the story of how NewFlex got started, how a multi-brand str...