Today, more so than ever, leaders are seeking solutions to ensure their workforce is productive, connected, and engaged regardless of where employees and teams are working.

In this highly interactive session, we will discuss how organizations are shifting to a more the adaptive workplace strategy of office and remote work where employees and teams makes decisions on where and how to do their best work.

To kick-off our session, is Steve Denning, the celebrated best-selling author and thought leader of the Agile Management Revolution. He will share his latest thinking on how the three key principles of agile management is helping those organizations adopting agile to re-optimize remote and office work to improve both performance and motivation.

Following Steve, Kate North, VP of Workplace Advisory at Collier International and Global Chair of Workplace Evolutioniares, will lead a terrific panel of thought leaders who will discuss the adaptive workplace of remote and office work. They will share current experiences and plans on how their organizations are re-optimizing work to improve both performance and motivation. Kate is a leading authority on workplace design and sees the future of workplace strategies to include the whole workplace experience of office and/or home working employees.

Steve Denning is the author of the eight business books, including "The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done, one the “best business books of 2018.” Steve has written over 800 articles as a senior contributor on Forbes.com with around 20 million views.

Steve is the former Program Director of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. Steve’s innovative work has been recognized world-wide. He now works with organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies on leadership, innovation, business agility and organizational storytelling.

Kate North. Vice President, Workplace Advisory, Colliers; Global Chair, Workplace Evolutionaries (WE)

For more than 25+ years, Kate has helped organizations create innovative workplaces and adopt new ways of working. Her global expertise includes research, workplace strategy, change management, training, sustainability, design, and leadership. Since COVID-19, she is leveraging her extensive background in “distributed work” to develop sustainable solutions for organizations that focus on helping employees work at their best. She integrates work-from-home with distributed work strategies and helps her clients re-imagining the purpose of the workplace and new hybrid models.

Kate is passionate about leveraging the workplace as a strategic tool and in “building community.” In 2007, Kate co-founded the Workplace Community within CoreNet and in 2012, she co-founded the “Workplace Evolutionaries” (WE) within IFMA. Today, WE is the largest multi-disciplined workplace community of practice globally, committed to “changing the world, one workplace at a time.” Kate continues to serve as the Global Chair of WE and also on the IFMA Board of Directors. She has authored two books and over forty case studies. She enjoys sharing her insights with others and speaks at various business, real estate, facilities, and HR and conferences around the world.

Michael Grove. Founder of HumanCentic Labs; CEO of CollabWorks

I believe the time has come to transform the way we manage people in organizations. Managing in all forms is overhead. Its sole reason for its existence is to get the right work done. By tradition we have been taught that the best way to insure to get the right work done is use managers - one per a number of non-managers or employees. The larger the organization, the more layers of managers who then manage managers who manage non-managers. The result is complexity, poor engagement, and an incredible amount of overhead. Our mission at HumanCentric Labs is to provide leadership and services to organizations who want to transform. The starting point of managing begins with the individual regardless of title or role. Each person manages themselves and the experience their work or services provides to their customers. Starting from the individual, the organization adds the least amount of managing to get the right work done.

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Jennifer Smith is Executive Vice President Technology and Operations, and Chief Information Officer of Zions Bancorporation, a multi-state $67 billion bank holding company. She drives transformative technology and operations initiatives for customer and community value. She leads with courage and compassion to create environments of empowerment, performance, and belonging.

Jennifer was honored as one of American Banker’s Women to Watch in 2019, 2018 and 2017. She won the Women Tech Council’s Technology Leadership award in 2018; and was one of Utah Business’s CxOs of the Year in 2019. Jennifer is an International Women’s Forum Leadership Fellow and a member of Harvard Business School’s Young American Leaders.

Jennifer will share the Zion story of workplace changes during COVID and her view as how Zion and other companies are forming their post-COVID work and workplace strategies.

Calandra Cruickshank is the founder and CEO of StateBook International that provides strategic economic insights to inform the optimal locations for real estate investment. She supports companies expanding and relocating in markets with the best opportunities for investment. Calandra advises proptech, fintech and govtech firms on how normalized public and private data can be integrated into their own platforms and applications to derive deeper and more meaningful data insights for their customers.

Calandra serves on the Advisory Board for Women in PropTech in New York City, advocating for increased adoption of innovative and disruptive technologies in real estate. She is dedicated to promoting thought leadership, tackling diversity, and empowering women in the industry. Calandra is a frequent speaker at industry events and serves on committees for CoreNet and IAMC. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).

With a deep background in commerical real estate markets and data science and analytics related to trends and opportunities, Calandra will provide us insight on the post-COVID era of how and where people work will impact workplace strategies.

Doug Kirkpatrick is the author of the Amazon bestseller Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization, in addition to his 2019 book The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work. He is a management consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, executive coach, writer, and educator.

Doug has served as a director for ATD (Association for Talent Development), the world’s largest talent development association with nearly 40,000 members in over 120 countries. As US Partner with NuFocus Strategic Group, he works with clients and communities including Open Leadership Network, Great Work Cultures, Responsive and the Center for Innovative Cultures to co-create the vibrant, self-organizing and agile workplaces of the future.

CollabWorks is proud to be the Executive Sponsor of this event. CollabWorks provides a management framework ideal for managing remote work.

Workplace Evolutionaries is a partner of HumanCentric Labs. We are working together to re-define the workplace combination of office and home that supports individuals and teams to create their best work.

We thank our in-kind sponsors for support our events. HumanCentric Labs