ONEder Podcast

From Michelin-starred kitchens to mission-driven healthcare systems, Eric Eisenberg's journey is anything but ordinary. On this episode of the ONEder Podcast, Eric shares how his love of food and theatrical flair led to a decades-long leadership career in healthcare and senior living foodservice. Now as a consultant and co-founder of Quadra Alliance, he's on a mission to empower teams, modernize operations, and help people thrive—both in the kitchen and at the table. Tune in to hear how systems thinking, empathy, and a passion for good food are reshaping the future of foodservice management.``

In this episode of the ONEder Podcast, CCB speaks with Lance Hayes and Yi-Chun Lin from Board and Vellum, a Seattle-based design firm, about their research project funded by the ONEder Grant. Their study explores the concept of workplace attachment in a hybrid work environment, investigating how employees form emotional connections to their workplaces in the context of remote and in-person work. Episode link: https://www.oneworkplace.com/podcast/fostering-connectivity-encouraging-workplace-attachments

In this ONEder Podcast episode, Claudia Saunders and Stacy Crumbacher from Mahlum discuss their 2024 ONEder Grant-winning project, Unlocking Space Potential: Aligning the Power of People, Practice, and Place in Middle School Learning Settings. Their research focuses on improving middle school learning environments by addressing the gap between educational practices, student experiences, and the physical design of schools.

In this episode, the ONEder Grant-winning team from Perkins Eastman discusses their research, "Someplace Like Home: Leveraging the Science of Hominess at Work." Their study explores how workplace changes, such as hybrid work and unassigned seating, affect employees' sense of belonging and comfort. Focusing on the loss of a stable "home base," the research highlights the importance of physical and psychological comfort in enhancing productivity and well-being in flexible work environments.

In this episode of the ONEder Podcast, Rohre Titcomb, Chief Operating Officer of the Seattle Storm, shares a powerful and inspiring conversation about leadership, community, and the transformative impact of women in sports. From champion Ultimate Frisbee athlete and entrepreneur to leading operations for one of the WNBA's most community-connected teams, Rohre shares how her passion for women, business, and sports converge in the work she does every day. Hear how the Storm's new Center for Basketball Performance supports athletic excellence, and also opens doors for youth, artists, and the broader Seattle community. This episode is a deep dive into what it means to build something that lasts, inspires, and includes.

In this episode of The ONEder Podcast, Kevin Dobson discusses his new Sacramento charter high school's focus on hands-on education in the building trades, providing students with practical skills, work experience, and college credits. He shares the challenges and opportunities in addressing workforce shortages in construction and manufacturing, and how Capital College and Career Academy provides students with an alternative to traditional college paths. Kevin also invites industry professionals to get involved through mentorship and internships to support the next generation of skilled workers.

In a world where change is the only constant, how do we prepare for the future? In this episode, innovation strategist Jenn Yoo explores why and how design research and strategic foresight can help organizations prepare for a future full of surprises. Jenn shares her journey from generalist to specialist and reveals how organizations can examine the "fringes" of today's trends to craft future-proof workplace strategies. This conversation is a must-listen for leaders, workplace designers and strategists facing an unpredictable world.

Dr. Justin Mohatt shares how the Ohana Center is redefining youth mental wellness, emphasizing prevention and the impact of COVID-19. Funded by a donor and designed to feel like a resort, the center aims to destigmatize mental health through safe, inclusive environments for patients, families, staff, and the community.

Bridgitte Alomes, founder of Natural Pod learning furniture, joins the ONEder podcast to advocate for creating healthy, sustainable and intentional learning environments for children. Inspired by her son's allergic reaction to toxic chemicals in a toy, Bridgitte envisioned, founded and leads a company to deliver beautiful, functional, and eco-friendly learning spaces that foster creativity and well-being. Encouraging involvement from both children and educators in the design process, Bridgitte shares highlights from successful projects at Thrive Community School and Explorer Academy. Listen in for a dose of passion, focus and commitment to empowering beautiful, durable and sustainable learning spaces

Amir Kia, co-founder of Spirit Living Group, joins the ONEder Podcast to share his perspective and experience leading a purpose driven senior housing organization dedicated to providing thoughtful care for elders in urban communities. Amir discusses intention and strategies for senior living design and care, from mindfulness training for staff members, utilization of new technologies for safety and wellbeing, to multi-use outdoor features that meet the needs of both older residents and younger visitors. Learn more about thoughtful design, development and management of senior living communities.

As dense and fresh as the outdoors, this conversation with IA Seattle ONEder Grant winners, Lisa Baumbach and Charles Fadem, explores their innovative research into "The Ecotonal Office”. From the impact of natural environments on workplace wellness, challenging conventional office design, through fieldwork in diverse ecosystems, they uncovered surprising insights into productivity and adaptability. It's a fast, fun review of a project that thoughtfully merges work and technology with the natural world, reshaping our notion of workplace.

As dense and fresh as the outdoors, this conversation with IA Seattle ONEder Grant winners, Lisa Baumbach and Charles Fadem, explores their innovative research into "The Ecotonal Office”. From the impact of natural environments on workplace wellness, challenging conventional office design, through fieldwork in diverse ecosystems, they uncovered surprising insights into productivity and adaptability. It's a fast, fun review of a project that thoughtfully merges work and technology with the natural world, reshaping our notion of workplace.

Join us for an innovative journey through the process of home healthcare delivery. Elliot Wortham and Aaron Mackenzie, strategists at Taylor Design a 2023 ONEder Grant recipient, explore their research and concepts for elevating the well-being of patients and providers in the delivery of healthcare at home. Be inspired by potential solutions aimed at transforming the provider experience, from streamlined medical equipment delivery to creating remote provider lounges. Envision a future where design and technology intertwine to revolutionize holistic at-home healthcare. It's a ONEder podcast filled with possibilities for tomorrow's healthcare landscape.

Need a quick shot of compassion or a roadmap on how to get there? Interested in learning how to celebrate the leaders and the individuals, the models, the training and the types of efforts that move the needle toward working in a compassionate business? Scott Shute shares his journey from his personal practice and work in corporate America, to leading the Mindfulness and Compassion Program for LinkedIn employees, through building a consortium of leaders and change makers coming together to change work from the inside out. Give yourself a gift, carve out 30 minutes for this ONEder Podcast.

Meet Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream, where tempting flavors and social responsibility thrive. Spend 30 minutes with founder and socially conscious business advocate Molly Moon, and learn how she created a hardworking, happy staff, strong local partnerships, and sustainable practices to deliver the best ice cream made with the finest ingredients. It's salty and sweet, and you will enjoy every minute.

Cultural anthropologist Melissa Fisher Ph.D. shares with us the significance of anthropology in assessing the evolving landscape of hybrid work environments to empower workplace design. As our community witnesses unprecedented shifts in how, where and by whom work is conducted, understanding the social and cultural dimensions of these changes becomes paramount. Melissa shares her research and experience to describe how anthropology can serve as a crucial lens for deciphering the intricacies of modern workplaces, unveiling invaluable insights into diverse behaviors, norms, and interactions. This podcast should come with a CEU!

Cultural anthropologist Melissa Fisher Ph.D. shares with us the significance of anthropology in assessing the evolving landscape of hybrid work environments to empower workplace design. As our community witnesses unprecedented shifts in how, where and by whom work is conducted, understanding the social and cultural dimensions of these changes becomes paramount. Melissa shares her research and experience to describe how anthropology can serve as a crucial lens for deciphering the intricacies of modern workplaces, unveiling invaluable insights into diverse behaviors, norms, and interactions. This podcast should come with a CEU!

Ever wonder how new K-12 schools get funded, planned, built, and operated? There's a lot more involved than just teachers, students and the PTA, and Jennifer Gibb from Van Pelt Construction Services explains many of the challenges and opportunities facing our communities when building for our future. Tune in to this conversation for a deeper dive into the state of K-12 school infrastructure and learn how you can support our next generation of learners.

Can there be design without community? Can complex social and design challenges be solved independently? How might true curiosity, conversation, relationship connection, and social justice values advance the work of any organization? If questions like these resonate, you need to meet Sloan Leo. The possibility, honesty, joy, and creativity shared in our conversation with the committed and brilliant founder of Flox Studio will brighten your day and might help you recognize a connection.

What drives a design career? Obviously, designers have many different paths to choose, and we invite you to spend this Oneder Podcast with us and Yana Ronin, hearing her personal journey. A designer, strategist, community builder, entrepreneur, world citizen and lifelong learner, Yana details the first half of her career and hints at what else the future may hold. Enjoy the story, her insights and energy are infectious.

As the cost of housing development continues to increase across the Bay Area, the homeless community also continues to grow. Additional pressure from the pandemic has only amplified the need. Dr. Brian Greenberg from Life Moves, a non-profit providing interim housing and supportive services for homeless families and individuals, shares his observations on the immediate need to scale these services and program resources.

There's a growing mental health crisis in the US, and a growing need for behavioral health resources. Listen in to this fact and experience filled conversation with a provider, Charity Holmes from the University of Washington Behavioral Health Services and a behavioral health designer/planner, Lori Epler from SRG Partnership. Learn with us more about their challenges, their successes and their hopes for the future of behavioral health resources.

The need to address inclusivity and belonging in the workplace along with recognized wellbeing attributes drove the team at QA to consider how and where to insert that in the design process. Kate Albee and Roderick Allen joined the ONEder podcast to describe their research process and learnings, as well as the toolkit they developed to integrate corporate values and holistic wellness into workplace design. The conversation is mind expandingly specific!

Can mass timber construction successfully meet the rigorous requirements for life science buildings? The structural engineers, sustainability leaders and designers at DES Architects & Engineers have done research, calculations, and designs to suggest it can. Listen in to Kenny Hung and Tom Parrish enthusiastically describe their journey of discovery.

A consortium of concerned built-environment professionals created the CARE tool enabling users to compare the total carbon impacts of renovating an existing building vs. replacing it with a new one. Listen in to this fast-paced conversation with Erin McDade from Architecture 2030 and Lori Ferriss from Goody Clancy, describing the CARE tool features and benefits to effect climate action in the build environment.

How might the K12 library evolve to meet the needs of 21st century students and school communities? A team of K12 design experts from EHDD tackles this question and actively involves student populations to generate new design thinking. Emily Bello, Charlotte D'Acierno and Lalyn Yu explain how research suggested that an analog gaming approach might be the perfect solution to engage students in their research. Listen and learn how your school and students might participate.

Three percent of manufacturing businesses are owned by women, and just imagine the leadership style they bring to their organizations. Susan Pilato, CEO of Mantra Inspired Furniture, shares her story of commitment, concern and celebration of American craftsmanship on this ONEder podcast. Modeling a simple code of behaviors, partnering with Amish maker workshops, creating sustainable, legacy, solid wood furniture and paying it forward in support of women entrepreneurs, Susan and her team are making manufacturing history.

What can make students be, and maybe more importantly, feel safe in schools today? How might design thinking and community engagement contribute to successful student learning, growth and wellness? Stanford d.School colleagues sam seidel and Barry Svigals share their exploration, thinking, tools and design solutions to empower collaboration between schools and their broad communities to deliver safe and nurturing environments for all students.

You're already working in the metaverse, and you're about to become more comfortable with its next iteration. Erin McDannald, CEO of Environments, spends this rich half hour sharing the steps she and her company have taken to design and immerse their staff and clients in digital twins, to meet and collaborate, conduct training, manage logistics and distribution, and choose lighting solutions while walking together in a park. Guarantee: your mind will stretch, and you'll want a digital twin of your workplace as soon as you can get your hands on it!

From explaining how and why play works to build social skills and responsibility, to reframing the substitute teaching experience for both students and teachers, to leading a course on social entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Jill Vialet intentionally considers how to infuse delight into each endeavor and how people will feel. Listen in to learn more, consider different perspectives and be delighted.

Curious about the latest thinking in digital healthcare? Want to know how your family might access specific types of health services in the not-too-distant future? Spend thirty minutes with Megan Zweig, COO of Rock Health, and learn what challenges creators and developers are thinking about and working on. The conversation is fast paced, expansive and informative, enjoy!

Need an energy boost? Listening to Debra Levin talk about her passion for improving health design is much better for you than caffeine or Red Bull. The story of how the Center for Health Design came to be, all the work it accomplishes and the good it has done for the professions of health care and design will bring you a boost of wellness and optimism beyond belief.

A design strategist, a data strategist and an architecture professor walk into a bar…no they're talking about research and reflections on creativity and how creative intelligence might be positively impacted by the workplace environment. It's a mind-expanding course in environmental psychology and nuance definitions of creativity. Get in a comfortable spot to listen in.

What are the best activities available to engage varied stakeholders? Experts on public design projects at Noll + Tam share their detailed evaluation of decades of their own work to identify a comprehensive engagement toolkit to consider during the design engagement process.

Designer Kelly Hendrickson and NAC had a vision for a space to help reduce trauma in children, a place to make children and their parents/caregivers feel calmer and gain a sense of control. Hear how they partnered with Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery in Spokane WA to deliver a Stay Play Learn Indoor Garden and bring this vision to reality.

The conversation about social interaction and building community in the workplace has dominated the landscape recently. Is it why people are coming back to the workplace? Gensler design strategists Amin Mojtahedi and Oliatan Awomolo test that hypothesis and take a look at what people mean by social interaction in the workplace from a Social Network Analysis perspective. And are there more desirable networks of work that can evolve if employees are invited to help build them? This conversation is rich and relevant.

The creation of caring, inclusive, participatory communities fosters deep learning and a sense of well-being in learning environments. The Artik research team shares their insights and perspectives with us on how built environments can support the creation of a sense of community. And they review evidence-based interventions and strategies to support this which can be found in a website they built for the design and educational communities.

Interested in future of retail brick and morter, the mashup of retail, workplace and hospitality, or the future of urban downtown areas? If so, you'll want to listen in to some great stories in this episode. Brand strategist, consumer trend expert, architect and master storyteller, Joan Insel, meanders with us through her delightful observations and well informed experiences.

You want the places where you work to support your health and wellness, right? Workplace strategist Kelly Griffin chats with us about the evolution and the science behind creating healthy human workplaces. From our beginnings in the savannah, molecular biology Brain Rules, and the 90:15 equation, there're some great nuggets here to help make your workplace more human.

Grab a cup of coffee. Architect, Interior Designer, Educator, Author, Editor and Advocate, Annie Chu shares her passions about the evolving balance between architecture and interior design, the state of design education, new and changing definitions for space and place, the economic and class discrimination aspects of the Interior Design licensure, Unmentionables and so much more.

Devin Liddell spends all day thinking about what's coming next, what the future might hold for his clients, their businesses and each of us. And when he's talking about mobility, the seemingly limitless possibilities range from moving people, materials or information using emerging technologies and the impact that may have on place. If you're interested in the metaverse, vertiports, autonomous mobility, or the Jetsons, don't miss this podcast!

AIA SF Future Classroom Competition winner Richard Berliner joins us to share how firm is transforming the landscape of education and meeting the challenges in today's learning environments and their communities. Spoiler alert: the Magic School Bus plays a part.

Our conversation with James Pease, Executive Director - Design and Construction at UCSF Medical Center will energize you. A passionate advocate for LEAN Construction and Integrated Project Delivery, James is committed to driving down the cost of construction to do his part in increasing access to quality healthcare for all.

Healthcare and senior living design firm Boulder Associates explored the challenge of measuring the impact on the person from human-environment interactions and then visualizing that data as a journey map. Meredith Banasiak and Jenny Hastings share their research into mood mapping a cohort of remote workers to evaluate impacts from their environments and activities.

Justice and healing after violence is critical to the health and future well-being of survivors. Since environmental design impacts health in many ways, how might the design of spaces used by violence survivors while seeking justice and support services impact their ability to heal? Tola Thomas from Designing Justice shares the surveys, interviews and workshops they conducted to identify and recommend types and qualities of spaces for survivors.

Putting their equity and diversity intentions into action, AP+I designers developed and implemented an afterschool Introduction to Interior Design program for low income, underserved high school students of color. You'll hear how the joy in learning was experienced by students and instructors alike, and how to access the program curriculum if your firm is interested in replicating in your community.

Carbon curious? Dedicated sustainable building practitioners Larry Siegel and Lori Ferriss discuss development of an easy-to-use tool for comparing the embodied, operating and avoided carbon impacts from reusing and upgrading existing buildings compared to constructing a typical replacement building. Listen in and learn how it might apply to your work.

ONEder Grant 2020 Team EHDD tackled Reimagining Learning Environments for Higher Ed. Thinking beyond the classroom to an ecosystem of space, resources, amenities and environments that support the unique community of students and faculty and staff, they proceeded with the understanding that learning is social, innovation is social. And we can't design campuses for the next generation without their input and their ideas.

Two workplace architects/product/curricula/software designers, interested in the application of network science to information access, urban policy and planning, and the built environment, talk about their research, think through some complex theories, and contribute knowledge to improve workspace design output. Their conversation will create an appetite to learn more.

Want a crash course into solutions for challenges facing people in the workplace today? Our conversation with Dr. Tracy Brower, author, work sociologist and Principle with the Steelcase Applied Research and Consulting team is fast paced, informative, filled with tips and references to relevant research. You'll walk away from this episode better prepared to have a good day.