Flex Uncensored - A Coworking Podcast

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Sofia Stolberg on LI Piloto Mail Piloto 151 (Coworking space)   Like many of you, Sofia Stolberg got into coworking by accident. She owned a building with her brother and needed to monetize it. The concept, Piloto 151, worked so well in her home country of Puerto Rico that she an...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Giovanni and I had a blast at the 2022 GWA Flex Forward conference!    The conference was packed with great content (including a top-rated day of emceeing by Gio and an audience-favorite panel moderated by Jamie), and we were able to meet so many new people and network.    We both agreed that live content is better...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast Resources Mentioned in this Podcast:   Nick Bratton on LI Avison Young    Not all potential coworking space sites are created equal.  Nick Bratton is passionate about evaluating the likely succrss of potential coworking space locations.   In his role at IWG, he reviewed over 1,000 pro formas for potential Regus & SPAC...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Shlomo on LI Bond Collective   Shlomo Silber and his co-founder started Coworking brand Bond Collective after being inspired by WeWork, which provides Coworking space for businesses of all sizes. Bond Collective is a premium boutique brand specializing in unique designs. They sta...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast:   Amy King on LinkedIn Good Coworking Well Building Certificaton Libsyn Description   Amy King is a transformative leader at the intersection of environmental sustainability and workplace strategy. She develops and grows healthy, engaged cultures around purposeful work, ESG, and...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Lisa on LinkedIn Primary Coworking is a rapidly growing industry, with more and more people looking for flexible, collaborative workspaces. Lisa Skye was at the forefront of this trend, as the first employee at WeWork. She quickly realized the potential of coworking, and saw an opp...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Flip on LinkedIn Lucid Private Offices website If you haven't heard Flip Howard's story, don't miss this episode. The episode is funny, thought-provoking and inspiring.  Coworking is a relatively new phenomenon, and one that is still finding its footing in the business world. Despi...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Grant Barhnhill on LI Shift Workspaces I have been enamored by the Shift's approach to hospitality since I first toured their first location many years ago. They are doing something different that has become even more compelling post-COVID. They are extremely intentional about th...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Faye Stutts on LI Vari   Faye has deep experience in the coworking industry, from sales roles at large operators to her new-ish role at Vari, an innovative furniture supplier for the coworking industry. At Vari, Faye is responsible for developing relationships with coworking spac...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Morris on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast Resources Mentioned in this Podcast:   Robert Teed Charlie Morris   Robert Teed: Helping Shape Our 'Next' as a Chief Coaching Officer, Strategic Advisor, Board Member, Recovering Corporate Real Estate Exec & Tagger of #𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵.   In the past, commercial real estate has be...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Joe Brady The Instant Group   Joe Brady, CEO Americas, The Instant Group, shares his vision for a frictionless, world-class workplace experience…and how Instant will help us get there. The Instant Group is creating the world's largest independent marketplace for flexible workspac...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Bill Bennett on LinkedIn Expansive   Jamie and Gio have a jam session about some of the hot topics in flex this week. We talk about: - Due diligence on a market - for LLs and operators - The Industrious/Nuveen hospitality play - Knowing who you want to serve and delivering an exp...

Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak started her career in the flex industry with IWG/Regus in 1999. She is now the Global Enterprise Director at NewFlex which delivers managed flex solutions for building owners. Andrea shares: - Why the UK is ahead of the US in flex - New Flex' unique model around brand-agnostic flex solutions for asset owners - How flex will make office space as transactional as a hotel. -...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Bill Bennett on LinkedIn Expansive   Bill Bennett is the founder and CEO of Expansive which powers the largest portfolio of owned and operated flexible workspace centers in the U.S. The expansive portfolio consists of 35 locations in 47 cities. Bill shares: - His own "coworking s...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Melissa on LinkedIn JLL Flex by JLL   Melissa Schilo started her career as a booking agent for a modeling agency. In 2006, he started her flex career with one of the first public companies in the serviced office industry - Servcorp, in Australia. That makes Melissa a true OG - an...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Mike Fransen on LI Mike's newly released book The Legacy Business: Practical Insights to Assembling a Life Worth Passing on to Others   Mike Fransen was an early visionary in creating and operating workplace ecosystems. He was a pioneer in programming office buildings to be compe...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Resources Mentioned in this Podcast: Mark Rose on LI Mark's Blog posts on Davos Avison Young   Mark Rose is the CEO of Avison Young whose perspective on the next phase of real estate consumption is grounded in decades of experience. He's passionate about using data, modeling and AI to drive real estate decisions tha...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Sarah Travers thought she was going to be an attorney when she grew up…until she dropped out of law school in her first week, spent a year at X company, was laid off during the post 2001 recession…and then spent the next 15 years of her career at Regus. Sarah is a shared workspace lifer. In 2017, she joined Workbar...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Liz Elam is an OG in the coworking industry. She has operated her own coworking spaces in Austin, TX and has now run GCUC, a global coworking conference, for 10 years.    She's passionate about coworking because she cares deeply about people and their mental health. She believes that many coworking space operators a...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   John Sikaitis is the Chief Innovation Officer at Avison Young. Before he took this role, he spent 14 years at JLL as Managing Director, Research & Business Development. He often works out of his favorite WeWork in the Washington, DC area. One of the big projects that he works on is Avant—the data-based analytics pla...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   I like to call Mara Hauser a Unicorn of the coworking/flex office industry. Not only have she and her 25N coworking team opened 6 locations in the last ten years, but she is also principal of a design studio that works with coworking clients…and 25N is committed to the management agreement model with five/six locati...

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn Find Jamie on the Everything Coworking Podcast   Jason Anderson started his career in the Air Force when he was 17. His first deployment was to the UK where he was stationed over 9/11. Before that assignment, Jason had never left the country. Jason didn't know at the time that some years later, he'd return to London to celebrate the expansion of a Venture X franch...