Everything Coworking

Mara Hauser is the Founder and CEO of 25N Coworking with locations in Geneva and Arlington Heights, IL. Mara is also on the board of the Global Workspace Association.

In addition to starting 25 North, Mara is President of Workplace Studio and has over 25 years of experience in designing and optimizing workspaces.

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Iris led the NextSpace team during initial expansion from 1 location to 9 and co-founded the League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces and COSHARE, produced Freelance Camps and has spoken at various conferences including the Global WorkSpace Association Conference and the Global Coworking Unconference Conference.

Iris currently consults, leads Coworking Mastermind groups, heads the board of directors of COSHARE and showcases industry and movement leaders through her media series, Coworking with Iris.

Iris and I talk about:

1. Her background, how she got into coworking and how you've landed on her sweet spot- helping organizations with hiring, culture and retention.
2. How she thinks the approach to recruiting/hiring coworking staff has evolved over the last few years
3. What are some steps that a new operator can take to create a culture that attracts community management talent?
4. If an operator suspects they need to do some work on their culture, what are some questions they can ask themselves to help with that reflection process?
5. Community manager certification

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In this episode, I talk with Kris Elliott, President of the Preferred Office Network.

Kris has joined me today to help demystify the corporate coworking client.

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In this episode, I review a basic template for a sample coworking P&L.

We go through:

1. Sources of income
2. Typical expenses
3. Items that are fixed/variable
4. Items that scale across multiple spaces

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Cat is the lead content creator at Shareable, and she helped position the publication as the #4 nonprofit blog in the world, with over 100,000 monthly unique visitors.

She also helps coworking spaces and collaborative organizations tell their stories and grow their communities with content.

Her focus is on creating lean, effective content strategies that engage a target audience, whether existing members, potential members, local entrepreneurs, or the extended collaborative space community.

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Overall, the report provides an overview of the flexible workspace market and the demand drivers behind the recent shared workspace growth. But their point of view is that while the industry seems riveted by the growth rates of flexible workspace, the more significant growth, and higher margin growth, is in communication services for the mobile professional. If you are listening to this podcast, you’re interested in flexible workspace and learning more about the demand for communication services by the same user base may spark some ideas about business models and opportunities.

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Get the highlights from the Liquidspace Flexible Office Report. They share data and insights based on their 3MM transactions for meeting rooms and office space. 

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Rebecca Brian Pan was the COO at Nextspace (9 locations in the Bay Area and Chicago) and then conceived of a model that she thought would make coworking more accessible for members, more sustainable for the operator and overall create an exceptional environment for today's mobile worker.

She launched COVO with her husband and brother in July 2016. We dig into her first 6 months - what's working, what have been her biggest surprises, and what's next for COVO.

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All of the data and resources referenced in this episode can be found right here on this blog post.

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