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Join co-hosts Bill Condon and Matt McGregor as they interview Rod Santomassimo, founder and president of the Massimo Group, in this episode of the Industrial Advisors podcast. Rod is a renowned coach and consultant in the commercial real estate industry, with a track record of helping thousands of professionals build successful businesses. In this conversation, Rod shares his journey from being a shy and insecure child to becoming a dominant force in coaching. He discusses the importance of commitment, discipline, and entrepreneurial mindset in achieving success as a broker. Rod also unveils his excitement about the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to revolutionize the industry. The episode concludes with a sneak peek into Rod's upcoming book, "Dominators of Commercial Real Estate Brokerage" which features stories of top brokers who have thrived in different market conditions. Tune in to gain valuable insights and inspiration from one of the industry's most influential figures.

Dave Cairns, SVP Office Leasing for CBRE Canada, leasing office space to some of the largest companies with a presence in Toronto, squeezed eight years of traditional office time between a very unconventional post-college career in poker, and more recently, embarking on a 'digital home-ad' life while taking a leadership position on commercial real estate transformation, and becoming a prolific publisher on LinkedIn. I am so excited to share this episode with you.

East of the Eastern time zone, in the Gulf of St Lawrence, lies Prince Edward Island (PIE), just off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in the Atlantic time zone. This where Dave Cairns and family relocated. As he explains, "my wife and I moved to an unconventional place because of a pandemic set of learnings," a place they were considering a vacation home, they would now move full time to raise a family and embrace the life of digital home-ads.

Dave inhabited a digital world long before covid, online poker. And it was in this world, that he developed his very unique perspective on the strengths of community, engagement, relationships, and transactions that do happen digitally, the positive impact growth in digital worlds has on corresponding physical worlds, and finally, the difficulty many non-digital natives are having during this time of transition.

My conversation with Dave Cairns

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Tracy Hawkins, former VP, Head of Real Estate & Work Transformation, Twitter was well into the hybrid / remote work transformation before Covid thrust the concept on the rest of us. Moving from the London and Dublin offices to Twitter Headquarters in Downtown San Francisco, she and her team had already expanded their thinking from a purely real-estate-centric focus on leases and occupancy, to how they could use the tools at hand to build and support the broader employee experience, culture development, and taking a more human-centric, activity based approach to how her team could enable Tweeps to do their best work, regardless of location.

Covid certainly accelerated this, and Tracy’s team formally moved from the finance team to the people train in 2020. Tracy has executive support as she and team focused on the details, everything from formally institutionalizing, training, and promoting behaviors, norms or ‘etiquettes’ around asynchronous communication, fewer meetings, no-meeting Fridays, Perching, and more. Compete with Senior executive support and modeling of desired behaviors.

As for space, the goal was choice, giving people a variety of environments to choose from, when they want to come in to accomplish something, be it heavily eam collaborative work, culture building and team bonding, or isolated focus work, Tracy and the team focused on providing options.

Welcome to Work20XX, a show focused on the transitioning world of work, where we bring you the best minds in the business to provide insight, direction, and specific actions that leaders, line managers, and individual contributors can use as we experiment our way forward.

In this far-ranging conversation, we cover these topics and more including the role of data, and a number of no-cost ways you can begin to better support all the people in the organization.

Without further delay, a conversation with Tracy Hawkins

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Continuing our Deal Talks series, we are pulling out the tried and true playbook for financial independence. From the “Sunshine” state to the southwest, The Mentasanas breakdown a behind the scenes look at real estate investing both present and future in this must watch episode.

I was thrilled to welcome a woman who is one of the hottest designers/architects in Minneapolis. She founded her own firm, Studio BV,  after deciding that she wanted to get back to hands on design work after spending years at a large architecture firm.   

Studio BV has been on a tear for 4.5 years where they help companies build their own stories and Studio BV applies those stories to their brand, logos, physical office space, campuses.  Besty Vohs exhibits a joy and a passion for her work that is enviable and contagious; and that shines thru to her many varied projects.  Betsy and her team have designed restaurants, company headquarters for Ever Eve, Digi, and they work on pro-bono projects that feed the soul like Women Winning, a YMCA camp and so much more. 

We discussed how and why she started her shop, BIG design and how it can change everything and what Betsy sees changing as we transition into that elusive new normal with COVID-19.    You can find Betsy on her webside, studio-B-V.com .   

We recorded this on March 10th, 2020 and if you enjoy hearing from Betsy and the Fly Through, please consider subscribing.   Thank you so much for joining me on The Fly Through.

Show Notes: 

• Art and design 
• How Betsy started up Studio BV
• Design can change everything // Power of design 
  • Evereve office
  • Digi office
  • See Studio BV's work at:  https://www.studio-b-v.com/our-work 
• Culture and design 
• How offices will change in the post pandemic world
  • Surfaces
  • Clean-ability
  • Touch-less 
  • Cleaning protocols 
  • More space, possibly reevaluation of focus work being remote and office is for collaboration 
• BOMA:  https://www.boma.org/  
• Fast and Furious:
  • 3 design mistakes that make her cringe
  • 3 things she cannot live without 
  • 3 places she loves and you should check out! 
    • The Foundry Home Goods:  https://www.thefoundryhomegoods.com/ 
    •  FRGMT: Coffee shop at The Nordic:  https://www.frgmntcoffee.com/
    • Walker Art Museum, check out their online stuff:  https://walkerart.org/
    • Flotsum and Fork, Jessica's recommendation:  https://www.flotsamandfork.com/ 
    •   Covet Consign: http://covetconsignanddesign.com/ 

Does the history of the European Real Estate market hold any clues for the direction of the future?

My guest today is Andrea Carpenter, a communications consultant in the property industry, founder & director of this podcast’s partner, the non-profit Women Talk Real Estate, and author of the new book High Rise and Fall: The Making of the Modern Real Estate Industry.

Andrea began her career as a journalist at Property Week before moving on to be editor of EuroProperty. Following this she worked for various organisations, including: Urban Land Institute, INREV and ANREV in Hong Kong. She most recently worked as Head of Marketing and Communications EMEA at CBRE Global Investors.

In this podcast:

• What were driving forces behind the creation of the modern European Real Estate industry?
• What went wrong in 2008?
• Has the investment industry learned it's lessons or is history in danger of rhyming once again?
• How has the way the industry has developed and been funded influenced our built environments?
• What is Women Talk Real Estate? Who is it for and how can people get involved?

Andrea's favourite Real Estate innovation is What3Words which has simplified talking about location by giving every 3x3m grid on earth a unique location code, comprising of 3 words...

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Women Talk Real Estate  who connect female real estate professionals with speaking and media opportunities across Europe and provide training for successful stage and media presence.