Facilities SIG - Strategic Spaces: Optimizing Workplace Design for the Professional Services Environments
Description
The world has changed ... can you feel it? It's gradual and imperceptible by day, but over the last decade has amounted to a tectonic shift in the professional services business. Clients are more discerning. Corporate real estate footprints are shrinking. Workers are more mobile and change employers more frequently. Information is ubiquitous and overwhelming. To better understand the critical issues affecting professional services, Steelcase launched an extensive, six-phase research and design initative. Through our research we've noticed that space plays a big part in supporting or not supporting changes taking place.
How is your workspace responding to the increasing demands of today's dynamic business environment? How does it support the diversifying areas of expertise, and offer ways to help new employees get integrated into the firms' culture?
Lisa Snucins, is the National Leader of Architectural & Design Accounts, at Steelcase Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Steelcase Inc., the global leader in the office furniture industry. Steelcase delivers a better work experience to its customers by sharing their insights and providing solutions derived from their extensive research on the impact that workspaces have on culture, behavior and business strategies.
Named to this role in January 2006, Lisa oversees the sales and marketing activities of the Steelcase brand for the Architectural and Design community and their respective clients for the Canadian Market.
Lisa joined Steelcase in 1998 as the Learning & Development Consultant, responsible for training development of new staff at Steelcase Canada and their industry partners. She also oversaw the adoption of new research by their workplace consultants.
Prior to joining Steelcase, Lisa gained 12 years experience working in the industry as a Sales & Marketing Consultant with a leading competitor and as a Workplace Consultant with a prominent Steelcase Dealer working with several major clients in the Professional Services field.
Lisa is a graduate of the International Academy of Design in Toronto and has held board positions at COREnet and (formerly) NACORE in the Toronto Chapters.