Everything Coworking

The guest in Episode 126 of the Everything Coworking Podcast guest is Jessica Oldani, President of Oldani Entrepreneurial Law P.C.

.We talk about:

- His background before joining Office Evolution. 

- What led him to join Office Evolution.

- The mission of Office Evolution and why they are unique. We discuss everything from the memberships they offer to the assorted tasks they use to build community.

- How his role looked when he started at Office Evolution and how the role has evolved over time.

- What a typical day or week looks like for him.

The guest in Episode 124 of the Everything Coworking Podcast is Jennifer Easton, Vice President of Marketing at the International WELL Building Institute.

- Her background before she joined IOS OFFICES and explored coworking. 


- What motivated her to join IOS OFFICES.


- What IOS OFFICES is. She shares everything from the size of their spaces to the unique things they do to help boost member engagement! She also touches on their ideal audience as well as their practices for staffing offices.

oday's guest is Mike Kriel, CEO of Launch Workplaces with locations in the greater Baltimore, Washington DC area.

We talk about:

- Mike’s background.

- The story of how Mike got into coworking.

- What Mike’s business look like today

- number of locations, business models (service agreements, management agreements).

- Mike’s ideal customer and who Launch Workplaces serves best.

- Mike’s creative deal structures with landlords

Today’s guest is Alex Hughes, Co-founder of CNTRL Office

  

We talk about: 

1. Alex’s background and Coworking story
2. Their expansion from Portland into LA, Dallas and Sacramento
3. Their ideal customer/who they serve
4. How their locations are staffed and what functions are centralized
5. Their real estate model 
6. Lessons learned and what they’re most proud of

Show notes here.

- The areas in which operators tend to have the biggest gaps and need support to be successful.

- The attributes that tend to correlate with operators setting themselves up to successfully scale.

- Opportunities for boutique brands and independent operators to win in an increasingly competitive market.

Today’s guest is James Shannon, Chief Product Officer at essensys. I invited him on to continue our coverage of physical and cyber security in coworking spaces. Essensys has deep expertise in this topic. If you missed episode 108, that’s another good listen on the topic.

James covers:

• His background and role as CPO for essensys
• What’s most exciting to him about the coworking/flex office industry?
• What are the physical risks space operators need to be aware of?
• What are the cyber security risks that space operators need to be aware of?
• What are the basic physical and cyber security solutions to protect members against these risks? 
• What are the security components that one needs to have in place to serve corporate clients?

He also talks about:

• Member experience that can be addressed by technology. 
• Aspects of a tech/IT suite that the best operators are integrating to enhance member experience.
• For operators that are either just starting or planning for expansion, the technology components that should be a focus for them if they are operating in competitive markets.

Find the show notes here.

Casey Godwin is unique in that he's done enough deals in the coworking space to develop an expertise around the model and best practices for the coworking space search process.

Casey starts the episode by setting our expectations around what a CRE broker should bring to the table in terms of resources, access to data and unbiased support for you, the future tenant.

He then walks through: 1) What to include in a pitch deck; 2) Data to collect to understand the market; 3) How to conduct a competitor analysis; 4) What demographic data to consider in your search; 5) How to customize your pro forma and 6) How to understand the capital required for the project.

Full show notes here.

 

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Mark Gilbreath has one of the most comprehensive vantage points of the Flexible Office Industry. As the CEO of LiquidSpace, he serves casual flex office users, corporate occupier users, SMB users, operators with space to offer and landlords with space to offer.

Rarely at his home office in Idaho, Mark is constantly in the flow of our quickly-evolving industry. In this episode, he shares his perspective on the evolution of the flexible office industry, the impact of the WeWork IPO on the perception of the industry, a demand forecast on the corporate occupier and a look at where we're headed.

Mark poses a few strategic questions to me and we discuss the supply/demand perspective; what does the playing field look like for new entrants competing with the likes of WeWork and Industrious? The Impact of WeWork and landlord participation on smaller operators and what emerging operators need most.

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