Leading people and real estate transformation in a post Covid world During the last 30 years, I’ve enjoyed working with leading organisations across a variety of sectors, helping them to drive business performance by thinking differently about the way they work. Together, we have implemented changes ensuring that their workspaces better support their people to work smarter, to be more adaptable and to maximise productivity while minimising costs. As well as working across the commercial sector, I’ve been fortunate to engage with numerous legal firms, leveraging specialist sector knowledge to enable them to succeed in a rapidly changing market. I’ve welcomed the opportunity to work alongside the leadership teams of some of the leading law firms, helping them to reshape their work practices and workspaces. We have focused on their ability to adapt to increased competition from combined professional services firms and offshore competitors and to meet and exceed their clients’ increasingly sophisticated expectations of flexible legal services on demand. I have also guided firms through the impact that a merger or acquisition has had on their property needs, enabling successful integration of their teams and offices. Working collaboratively enabled us to improve workflow efficiency, driving increased productivity, in addition to improving client care and retention by improving access to services and advice, whenever and wherever your clients need it. These evolutions have been underway for several years but Covid-19 has created the opportunity for a paradigm shift. I am really enjoying working at the heart of client teams and understanding employee experience. Together we are embracing opportunities to reimagine how and where work gets done and delivering new innovative workplaces and change. If you’re a CEO, Facilities Director or board member of a leading corporation or legal firm who is looking to innovate the way you work to improve overall business performance through effective workspace design and adoption then I’d be delighted to talk to you, so please get in touch.
Head of Workplace UK and Europe . Principal at Avison Young
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Design and Applied Arts