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Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, says it’s a huge misconception that joy and work are separate. She shares her radical theory — that a few simple changes to the work environment can make a dramatic difference in how people feel and perform.

The future of work is mobile. Yet, plugs and cords have kept people tethered to the wall or floor — until now. Steven Yang, Anker Innovations CEO, and James Ludwig, Steelcase v.p. of global design & engineering, tell us how these two unlikely collaborators created the first-of-its-kind enterprise-level mobile power solution for the office.

The open office is reality for the majority of workers, and there’s no shortage of complaints about it. So how did we get here? And what does our past mean for the future of the open office? This episode features: Journalist Rob Kirkbride, retired industry consultant Dave Lathrop and O+A design studio co-founder Verda Alexander. Go inside all 5 episodes at steelcase.com/openofficetruth

A chief open office complaint is a lack of privacy. Yet, few studies test how to help people focus in the open plan. Until now. This episode features: WorkSpace Futures researchers Donna Flynn, Melanie Redman, Caroline Kelly and Steelcase EMEA workplace consultant Hania Arafat. Go inside all 5 episodes at steelcase.com/openofficetruth

Privacy – on demand! Pods are the new office hot spot. Learn how to ask the right questions about designing productive places away from the desk when you need four walls and a door. This episode features: 360 Magazine Editor Chris Congdon, Orangebox Creative Director Gerry Taylor and Steelcase pod portfolio expert Niki Watt. Go inside all 5 episodes at steelcase.com/openofficetruth

With more office space devoted to shared spaces, they shouldn’t sit empty. There’s an art & science to creating spaces that help people feel good and be productive. This episode features: Steelcase applications marketing designer Mary Elaine Rousch, Steelcase General Manager of Ancillary Partnerships Brian Shapland, Moooi Carpets CEO Martien Valentijn, Bolia CEO Lars Lyse Hansen, Extremis CEO Dirk Wynants, West Elm Vice President of Work and Contract Design Paulo Kos. Go inside all 5 episodes at steelcase.com/openofficetruth

If the original intent of the open office was better collaboration, communication and trust, then what’s getting in the way? And what can we do about it? This episode features: Steelcase CEO Jim Keane and Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay. Go inside all 5 episodes at steelcase.com/openofficetruth

The digital revolution, new learning styles and new generations are redefining today’s libraries. Library leaders and Steelcase Education researchers share new insights into how the heart of campus can adapt to be future-ready.

Dr. Jack Lewis, brain scientist and author of Sort Your Brain Out, translates neuroscience for everyday people. He spoke with 360’s Serena Borghero in Munich about powerful tips he’s collected over the course of 20 years to help our brains perform at their best.

A new report on flexibility in healthcare spaces changes the conversation about how the environment can adapt. Dr. Upali Nanda, HKS dir. of research, & Dr. Michelle Ossmann, Steelcase Health dir. of healthcare environments, test the FleXX report.

Simon Sinek, bestselling author of “Start with Why,” challenges conventional business norms in his new book “The Infinite Game.” Hear why he says we’re all unwitting players, we shouldn’t focus on our competition and what so many leaders get wrong.

Kim Erwin and Jerry Krishnan, co-directors for the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design at the University of Illinois Chicago, share how design is returning healthcare to its roots—helping patients, families and clinicians do the right thing.

Modern teams—tasked with solving complex problems and helping organizations innovate—work less like a relay team, handing off work from one to another, and more like a hockey team, fast-paced and interconnected. They are hyper-collaborative. Chris Congdon, Editor of 360 Magazine, and Julie Barnhart-Hoffman, Steelcase researcher, explore what barriers these teams face and how to give them the control they need to succeed. Deep dive into this topic by reading New Work. New Rules.

Micro schools, team taught classes, design thinking practices. In this episode, why it’s so crucial for educators to learn from each other. Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart and author of Better Together, joins Steelcase WorkSpace Futures researchers Aileen Strickland-McGee and Gabby Scarritt for a discussion centered around the power of networking in education.

In this episode, we diagnose what goes into creating a good workspace away from the traditional desk. Hear interviews with experts from iconic brands West Elm, Blu Dot and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. Plus, Brian Shapland, Steelcase GM of ancillary partnerships, shares some tips on how to design a great informal space.

What if instead of paying every time you had a medical service, you only paid if you had a positive result? Listen in on a thought-provoking conversation between Stacey Chang, exec. dir., Design Institute for Health at Dell Medical School and Michelle Ossmann, PhD, director of health environments at Steelcase. They explore new ways to deliver healthcare centered around people.

FLOS lighting gives people around the world a reason to look up, creating beautiful spaces with forms that inspire. Jack Schreur, CEO of FLOS USA, shares the inside stories about how FLOS partners with the world’s best designers to create iconic pieces. Plus, learn why some designs were impossible just a few years ago and how FLOS gives people the ability to control the lighting around them.

Steelcase Education just launched the fifth cycle of its Active Learning Center Grant. Each year, up to 16 schools receive new furniture and teacher training. The schools also commit to doing research they share with the growing active learning community. In this podcast, hear real stories about changes happening in classrooms that serve very different student populations.

Beth Comstock, former GE Vice Chair and CMO, tells us how to thrive in the midst of failure, the “F” word in business. The self-described “changemaker in chief” shares stories from her book Imagine It Forward, how she gets her crazy ideas and what trends she’s watching right now.

Who do you serve and what does delight look like for them? Listen in to Menlo Innovations CEO and co-founder, Richard Sheridan, as he explains how these questions have helped his team create an agile work environment filled with joy.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Coalesse, General Manager Lew Epstein, explores the company’s history creating furnishings for the modern workplace.

As personalized learning gains more momentum thanks to new technologies and the needs of today’s workforce, Steelcase researchers, Gaby Scarritt and Aileen Strickland McGee, interviewed dozens of educators to learn how personalized learning helps students and educators and how the physical environment can help.

The office you remember is gone. Fast Forward tells the story of a workplace created in harmony with the new ways in which you work. Enjoy the reading of this 360 Magazine article. Fast Forward.mp3

As the classroom of tomorrow continues to paint a very different picture than what you see today, author, professor and visiting scholar, Jeff Selingo, shares his vision for the future of learning and how job and technology trends will make place more important than ever.

As 360 Magazine Editor Chris Congdon hosts a revealing conversation on how to build trust and the ongoing search for purpose at work, organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares why team building activities don’t work, why the corner office sends a bad signal and why procrastination can be a key ingredient to creativity.

With Blu Dot recently winning the prestigious Cooper Hewitt national Award for Product Design, co-founders CEO John Christakos and COO Maurice Blanks share how a mission to bring good design to everyone continues to create new opportunities for the company.

With Steelcase’s constant focus on innovating to solve problems, Chris Congdon, editor of 360 Magazine, explores the newest issue of 360 Magazine: Fast Forward that showcases the future of how people work, new ideas and a drive to solve problems and reimagining the places people work.

Hear a story about how empowering people to change their workplace can accelerate the adoption of agile. Enjoy the reading of this 360 Magazine article.

Driven by a strong sense of purpose, Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams share how they grew a successful furniture business into an iconic brand and why it’s time for your office to feel like it’s giving you a big hug.

With the goal to evolve modern craft and quality, Coalesse general manager Lew Epstein and global design director John Hamilton discusses how a new approach to quality and modern craft is influencing design at Coalesse.

With the goal to invent the office chair of the future, Part I of our podcast shares how three of the designers and engineers behind SILQ created a chair that removes the mechanisms found in typical office chairs and replaces them with a simple system that responds uniquely to each person.

With the SILQ chair marking the beginning for new breakthrough seating solutions, Part II of our podcast uncovers how the team learned about innovation, how it will change the future of product development and share random acts of innovation that made it into the final design.

Is the success of co-working spaces throwing into question the traditional corporate offices as destination for work? Listen to Gemma John, anthropologist and founder of Human City, a spatial strategy consultancy based in London, about what corporate offices can learn from co-working spaces.

String Theory Schools, a nonprofit in Philadelphia, is on a mission to grow the world’s next creative leaders. Jason Corosanite, co-founder and chief innovation officer, shares how their pedagogies challenge conventional assumptions and help kids discover what they love at an early age.

Chris Congdon, 360 editor and director of global research at Steelcase, takes us inside the newest Innovation and Learning Center in Munich, gives us a peek into how to support Agile teams and describes a materials science breakthrough in seating design.

David Kidder, CEO of consultancy Bionic as well as a serial entrepreneur, teaches large enterprises how to operationalize a growth mindset, talks about his “army of entrepreneurs” at Bionic and the five lenses he uses to spot great ideas.

Dr. Jeff Sutherland, an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto and inventor and co-creator for Scrum, explains why he bans emails, why his team had to change its space and why Agile and Scrum are so popular today.

With Jefferson University being committed to innovative teaching methods, listen to Jeff Ashley, director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Nexus Learning at Jefferson University, talk about his team’s methods for building a bigger and stronger active learning community on campus.

With more organization everywhere trying to figure out the secret to innovation and growth, Steelcase is launching a new Learning and Innovation Center in Munich. President and CEO Jim Keane explains why they picked Munich and how this new environment will impact strategy and culture for Steelcase employees and business results for customers.

How do you bring back the “buzz” in our schools? Dan Behm, superintendent of Forest Hills Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wanted to banish boring and reinvigorate students, teachers and staff at all levels. Steelcase’s Applied Research + Consulting team worked with his district to rethink curiosity, collaboration and communication.

Johanna Frelin on Leading Tengbom, the most innovative architecture firm in Scandinavia

Two educators passionate about active learning share their strategies and techniques for engaging students. Dr. Julie Marshall, teacher from South Carolina’s Saluda Trail Middle School, and Randy Hall, an educational technology facilitator at the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center in New York, discuss how to reimagine and reinvent classrooms to break down barriers, develop trust and prepare students for the future.

IDEO, a global design and consulting firm, is now helping organizations identify and measure workplace innovation with a tool called Creative Difference. 360 Real Time spoke with IDEO products managing director, David Aycan, about how the tool can help teams discover surprising new data and how the work environment plays a role.

Big data, the cloud and advanced computing are some of the forces pulling information technology professionals out of the basement and into every aspect of business today. Listen as Terry Lenhardt, vice president and chief information officer for Steelcase, reveals how the evolution of IT is impacting employees, positioning companies for growth and changing the workplace.

As the office continues to evolve into something fundamentally different, Steelcase Dir. of Research Communications and 360 Magazine Editor Chris Congdon, reports on the renaissance the office is experiencing. Listen as we discuss redefining what the office means and creating workplaces that inspire how people work and where people love to work.

Listen as 360 editor Chris Congdon talks to Ralf Groene, general manager for Device Design for Microsoft, and James Ludwig, vice president of Global Design at Steelcase about their collaboration to create technology-enabled spaces that drive creativity at work.

The demand and desire for creativity at work has never been stronger. The newest issue of 360 Magazine explores why and how workplaces should support this creative shift. Chris Congdon, 360 editor and director of global research at Steelcase, joins 360 Real Time to discuss why the latest issue is focusing on creativity and to tell us about new ways you can enjoy 360.

Founder of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, Skylar Tibbits, partnered with Steelcase to explore the future of furniture personalization. His creative, innovative team helped break 3D printing barriers.

IDEO’s Tim Brown talks about the three roles leaders have in creatively-competitive organizations and how to assess the creativity of a company.

Progressive leaders are reshaping their organizations to be more agile, innovate and grow. Sara Armbruster, Steelcase VP Strategy, Research and New Business Innovation, explains how a leadership space can empower executives to lead in fundamentally better ways.

With more people seeking a more authentic, inspiring place to work, listen to a typical day at work for one busy manager to understand the story behind the Office Renaissance and how it’s creating a more human-centered experience at work.