Corporations are disrupting (innovating) their workplaces for a wide range of purposes, from better understanding their customers to attracting their primary talent pool, to reinvigorating their R&D group, and inspiring overall workforce productivity and innovation. These goals take form in workplaces that are reimagined in non-traditional ways. Today many large corporations are seeking ways for their workplaces to become more customer focused and enhance their brand identity by developing market research centers. They also want to enhance efficiency for their staff members and develop innovative cultures.
Join us as Andrea Foertsch shares her research on how corporations are being influenced by the new ways of work and continuing to innovate their own workplaces Examples will be drawn from nationwide research including: Coca Cola, State Farm Insurance’s Next Door, Zappos, State Street Bank, Constant Contact, PayPal and Red Hat.
SPEAKER
Andrea P. Foertsch, Founder and Principal of Disruptive Space
Andrea develops workplace strategies for The Innovation Economy. Recent work has focused on shared workspace such as coworking, makerspaces, innovation centers, hackerspaces and accelerators. Her thought leadership on innovation workplaces has been presented at national conferences, including MakerFaire, The Global Coworking Unconference, How to Make a Makerspace, NAIOP Spring Forums, and Workshift 2014. Ms. Foertsch is also Principal and Founder of Melrose Real Estate Strategies, an urban development, adaptive reuse and land planning consulting practice specializing in the study and opportunistic application of emerging trends and best practices since 1994. Prior to establishing her companies, Ms. Foertsch led commercial projects at Congress Group Ventures and residential projects at Corcoran Jennison Companies. She is a Guest Lecturer at Cornell University’s graduate Baker Program in Real Estate.
COST
End User Member: Free
End User Non-Member: $75.00
Service Provider Member: $65.00
Service Provider Non-Member: $85.00
Talent in Transition:
Member: Free
Non-Member: $25.00
Additional $20 cost after registration deadline
Registration Deadline November 26th
Capacity 125