I was joined by JLL's lead Life Sciences researcher, Amber Schiada.  If you are interested in the big picture and hearing more about this, Amber is basically the best of the best.  She leads JLL's industry research team and is responsible for the significant annual JLL Life Science Report.  

Join me and Amber in this great conversation about Life Science and Real Estate! 

Rebecca Charbauski, an Emmy-winning journalist, serves as Steelcase Brand Communications manager, reporting on global research exploring how people do their best work and how we can create places to help us all work better.   

Our conversation hit on all those things and more.  If you want the latest in thinking from one of the biggest names in furniture, listen to Rebecca's incredibly well-rounded and knowledgeable insights.   

Show notes:

Steelcase Global Report https://www.steelcase.com/globalreport2022

Putting the Hybrid Office to the Test: https://www.steelcase.com/research/articles/topics/hybrid-work/putting-hybrid-office-test/

Rebecca's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccasapakie/

Jessica Mogilka's LinkedIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/   

Welcome to what I am calling the second season of The Fly Through!  

We're back with a great conversation with Bob Gardner, Founder and CEO of Gardner Builders. 

Bob has always been incredibly thoughtful and intentional around how he built and envisioned his company  - centered around valuing employees as the experts they are (and making sure they know they are valued), challenging folks in a good way and providing a positive environment for the whole team (and that team is not just employees, but suppliers, contractors, clients and partners). 

Who better to discuss culture and leadership and how they have built their culture in a workforce that is all over the place - in an office, on job sites, remote - when so many people are also figuring out how to do that same thing?  

Welcome again to Bob and thank you for joining me!  

Find Bob: 

www.gardnerbuilders.com

Bob's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-gardner-65b85/

Book recommendations: Traction and Setting the Table 

Studio E:  http://www.yourstudioe.com/

Find Jessica:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/  

Frank Jaskulke knows literally everyone in the Twin Cities Life Sciences world.  He knows everyone and has a pulse on what is going on - hang out to hear what his take is on the scene and as an accomplished networker being pulled in a million directions, he shares some of his secrets on how he does it all. 

To celebrate May as Mental Health Awareness month, we are bringing you a conversation with Shawn Gaither, Principal and Senior Architect at DLR Group.  We discussed Neurodiversity in the built environment, and how and why we should all include neurodiversity as part of the Diversity and Inclusion conversation.  

I was struck in this conversation by the overlap of good design for inclusion, also means good design for all employees.  Join Shawn Gaither and me for this important conversation. 

Did we get something wrong?  What did we miss?  Reach out - you can find me on LinkedIN and Shawn's contact info is below. 

Shawn P. Gaither, AIA, LEED AP

Senior Architect  |  Principal

[email protected]

DLR Group

Architecture  Engineering  Planning  Interiors

o: 612-977-3500  |  d: 612-977-2814 520 Nicollet Mall, Suite 200  Minneapolis, MN  55402 Find us at:  dlrgroup.com  |  Instagram  |  LinkedIn

Joining me today is Bob Greenberg, President of the 614 Company and owner of Frog's Leap winery  and Russ Nelson now retired founder of NTH, one of the first tenant representative only real estate firms in the country, and active mentor/board member/speaker.  

Bob and Russ have known each other for years, so it made sense to ask them to join me together to share stories of how they both built their businesses.    Key themes that came out of it :  Honesty, trust, relationships, person to person (who gets to sit across the table anymore and just work out a deal on a handshake?) get involved (very involved) and of course -  creativity.  

Find Jessica at:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/ .    Let me know what you think and what else you'd like to hear about!  

Drink wine from Bob's winery:  www.frogsleap.com  

Please welcome Kimarie Ankenbrand to the Fly Through.  She is the JLL Market Leader for the Raleigh Durham market, after relocating there for the job from Dallas about 2 1/2 years ago. 

Kimarie is one of my favorite people to bounce ideas off of (she always has great ideas) new ways of thinking about things and is always open to discussing what she's seeing and hearing - which is what we did on the podcast today.   

We talked about taking big risks, daily calculated risks, getting out there and networking and reaching out and making the ask.   Have a listen, and if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review or reach out on LinkedIN. 

Find Jessica:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/ 
Find Kimarie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimarieankenbrand/ 

Show Notes: 

Research Triangle Park:  https://hub.rtp.org/ 

For those that don't know her, Erin Fitzgerald is a dynamic agency broker here in the Twin Cities that leads the market, and nation, with her focus on wellness and employee/human experience in an office building.   Tune in to hear more about  her creative, laser focus on creating a vision for space and what she sees in the continuing conversation about return to office. 

Show Notes:
Find Jessica on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/
Find Erin on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fitzgerald-erin-e/

References:
Gensler Research

SteeleCase Research

Fluid

Atmosphere

Nelson

NAIOP 

Toast Masters
MNCrew 

Ryan Severino, JLL's Chief Economist, joined me to discuss where his crystal ball is telling him the economy is going, when and what that means for the real estate market and decision making.   His crystal ball is made of data models and lots of math that he uses to predict when the economy is going to get moving again and what that means for real estate markets.  

And it's good news, folks.  Ryan believes we are entering a six month time of risk and continued uncertainty - but the economy has already started to grow, and that means for real estate markets, we are in a period of opportunity.  

Welcome to my first solo-cast.  I riff on an interview with Ryan Severino and bring it into a shorter form episode about office real estate with a Twin Cities focus.  

It's just me connecting the dots from what what I'm seeing in the Twin Cities market and the big economic talk. 

Check out the solo-cast if you are interested in: 

• Twin Cities Market office update 
• What I'm seeing /what companies are doing
• Connecting to the macro economic outlook 
• What does that mean you should do now? 

((HINT:  The big picture according to @ryan is POSITIVE!))

((HINT:  It means that now is a time of opportunity))

Questions?  Reach out to me on LinkedIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakmogilka/