VP, Workplace Advisory at Colliers Int. and Global Chair of Workplace Evolutionaries Kate North talks with host Lorri Rowlandson about how the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated much needed change to the way we work, emphasizing that work is not where we go, but what we do.

Leading Innovation at Work host Lorri Rowlandson talks to Peter Ankerstjerne, Global Lead of Facility Management and Experience Services at JLL and Chairman of the Board of IFMA. Lorri asks Peter for his top predictions on how the world of work will change post-COVID-19.

Welcome to Season 2 of the Leading Innovation at Work podcast! To kick off the season, host Lorri Rowlandson introduces concepts related to the post-pandemic workplace in her book "The New Normal: Informed Predictions on How the World of Work Will Change Forever." Lorri explains why the death of the office is an exaggerated response to COVID-19, and predicts how we'll start using offices differently going forward. She also touches on right-sizing real estate portfolios, redesigning office space, and cultivating high-performance teams in a remote work environment.

Find "The New Normal" on Amazon.com

Approximately 40 million American adults have anxiety. COVID-19 has stoked anxiety even further. In this episode of Leading Innovation at Work, Lorri speaks with wellness expert Rani Glick, who works with organizations to help employees manage their stress and anxiety. Rani explains the difference between Mental Health vs. Mental Illness, the stages of anxiety, signs of mental illness to look for, factors that influence anxiety, and how companies can make coming back to work easier after pandemic restrictions have eased.

We dedicate this episode to Lorri's friend Robert Struthers, who suddenly passed away last year. Robert was the head of real estate for Bell, he was not only a client but he was a friend to many.  Robert paved the way for women in real estate as well as mental health - he was a huge advocate of Bell's Let's Chat program.  It's remarkable to have such a senior leader expressing such vulnerability around the topic of mental health, and we are so grateful for the difference that he made in our lives.  Never forgotten.

Is this the death of the office? Not likely! In this episode, host Lorri Rowlandson and Tony Gill, CEO of Beakns Inc. cover off a wide range of topics related to post-COVID-19 workplace needs, including the evolution of virtual culture, agile and resilient spaces, applications and gamification for creating engagement, and intermediary facilities for collaboration.

Elevators, elevators, elevators! LIAW host Lorri Rowlandson has been asked about elevator safety more than anything else during the COVID-19 pandemic.  In this episode, Lorri loops elevator expert Gregor Vahramian into the conversation. Lorri and Gregor talk about some of the short and long term solutions for elevator health and safety, human behavior, and an old-but-new material that could naturally protect elevator surfaces from viruses.

This episode of the Leading Innovation at Work podcast is a sneak peek of a segment of Lorri Rowlandson's upcoming book on the post-COVID-19 workplace. Listen and hear how companies have had to quickly improve their long-term communication strategies since the current period of social isolation due to coronavirus, and why it will benefit us in the long term. Lorri explains the whats, whys and hows of communication, and there's also an accompanying downloadable communication plan worksheet template you can download for free.

We've recently experienced a massive shift to remote work, and one of the resulting questions that has arisen from this change is "how do we measure employee productivity when people aren't working from the office?" In this podcast, Lorri Rowlandson aims to challenge your perceptions about measuring productivity. Lorri's hope is to erase biases against remote work, share which methods of productivity she effectively uses when managing teams, and reveals which methods she thinks need to be retired forever.

Strategizing and innovating for the future are Lorri Rowlandson's workplace "raison d'etre." When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Lorri's mental wheels started turning towards how the global health crisis will change the spaces where we work. In this episode, you'll hear the advice Lorri is giving to clients and peers about how to adapt office spaces to accomodate new work styles.

Mim Senft prefers the phrase "employee well-being" over "employee wellness." Why? Well-being implies more than just physical health, reflecting a more well-rounded approach to an individual's overall wellness. In this episode, Mim and Lorri talk about how wellness programs are (slowly) changing for the better, the new benchmarks for well employees and healthy spaces, and why companies need to contribute to the better health of their greatest investment - their employees.