Matt sits down with Wende Miller, Managing Director, Talon Private Capital. Since 2012 Wende has overseen asset management and leasing for TPC’s portfolio, including partner properties totaling over 7 million square feet valued at over $2 Billion. She has completed over 4.5 million square feet of new, pre-leased, and renewal leases while overseeing property management, project management and brokerage teams in multiple markets.
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Matt sits down with Char Patterson, Principal at JPC Architects. Char arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 1980 when her military family transferred from Miami to Seattle; it was an instant attraction. Char is an Architect and Partner and has been part of the JPC team since 1994. The creation of interior space that reflects the culture, values, and goals of a business with simple, creative solutions is the goal.
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A Principal with Lee & Associates, Stuart brings over 35 years of commercial real estate expertise to his clients. Stuart was a Managing Director and led the Capital Markets team at JLL for numerous years, during which time he provided investment sales services to institutional, corporate, and private investors. He has sold over $6 B of properties and leased over 7M SF. Stuart consistently ranks among the top sales and leasing brokers in the greater Puget Sound area including being SIOR broker of the year 5 times and a CoStar power broker 12 times. Before JLL, he was a co-founder and Principal with Pacific Real Estate Partners, and prior to that he was a Principal at the Norman Company and managed all ownership leasing activity.
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Dave recently marked his 41st anniversary in the contract furniture industry. He joined the rep firm that he now owns in 1981, after graduating with a business degree from the University of Oregon. He became a partner in 1995 and bought the firm outright in 1999.
Dave is a 2001 graduate of the CPRM program (Certified Professional Manufacturers Representative). CPMR is a three-year accreditation program offered at the ASU School of Business.
Dave has account responsibility for Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, and Idaho, as well as responsibility for the overall management of the firm.
He and Julie have two children and two grandchildren with number three on the way.
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Matt sits down with Marlaine McCauley, CEO and owner of Apex Facility Resources to chat about creating a custom business solution to suit their customer needs, building a family while building a business, and the lessons she has learned along the way!
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Join Matt as he connects with David Thyer, president of Seattle-based R.C. Hedreen Co., a privately held hotel development and investment company where he has worked for the past twenty-six years. The company’s primary focus has been developing, constructing, owning, and managing world-class investment properties since 1963. Principally in the hospitality arena. The company has shifted its focus primarily to luxury hotels over the past 20 years. Yet they maintain a portfolio of successful projects including retail, high-rise office buildings, and single and multi-family homes. The company's Hotel developments include the Seattle Hilton, Crowne Plaza, Renaissance Madison, Grand Hyatt Seattle, Hyatt at Olive 8, and most recently, the Hyatt Regency Seattle.
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Quick tips from Matt Watson on how to make your life easier as you move from your current office
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A quick look into how to plan for the office while embracing the changes around people, process and culture.
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Tune in as Matt dives into the four work modes. Focus, Learning, Collaboration, and Social. We hope the review of the fundamental work gives planners the ability to work with functional aspects of the workspace when planning for a new office.
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On this episode, Matt sits down with Brian Canlis, co-owner of Canlis, a fine dining restaurant in Seattle, Wa. Having grown up in the restaurant business, Brian spent eight years studying and working abroad in England, Austria, and Spain before finishing a hospitality degree at Cornell University. After four years as an officer in the Air Force (he worked with Air Force One - you may have seen him on CNN saluting the president) he returned to Seattle to join his brother Mark at the helm of Canlis: the landmark restaurant built by his grandfather in 1950. Outside the restaurant, Brian has hosted the country’s preeminent event on hospitality, The Welcome Conference and has appeared as a judge on Top Chef and a guest on No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain.
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Check out Transcending Workspace with Matt Watson to learn how business leaders are adapting to change!
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On this episode of Transcending Workspace, our host Matt Watson talks with Ringo Nishioka, SHRM - SCP, SPHR. Ringo Nishioka is a Human Resources and Operations executive with experience spanning Fortune 50 and high-growth technology companies. He builds award-winning company cultures and creates rapid growth through a hyper-focus on leveraging culture and performance management programs. He is currently the Chief People Officer at MoxiWorks, the intelligent productivity system for real estate brokerages.
Check out his blog at https://hrnasty.com/
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Join Matt as he sits down with John R. Miller the Senior Managing Director for the Pacific Northwest and Market Leader for the Greater Seattle region, overseeing all CBRE service lines and approximately 2,000 employees, including nearly 200 transactional professionals. In his role, John is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of five offices in Washington in August, including the metropolitan areas of Puget Sound and Portland.
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Join Matt as he speaks with Boaz Ashkenazy to discuss Boaz's experience building his business with immersive experiences.
Boaz is the CEO of Simply Augmented, member of Khronos 3DCommerce working group, and an advisor on the business of 3D, VR/AR and XR, to a select group of global companies.
Boaz is driven to help companies of all sizes leverage 3D content to drive growth in a world transitioning to online sales, virtual experiences and augmented marketing.
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Listen as Matt connects with Jarrod Arbini, a Senior Project Manager at Weaver Architects as they dive into the current state of the Seattle market. A Walla Walla native, Jarrod Arbini traded in his pursuit of an agribusiness degree and a stake in the family farm for an architecture degree from WSU and a move to Seattle. His first introduction to the profession was in retail design, which solidified his love of interior architecture and quickly expanded into hospitality and commercial office interior design.
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Matt sits down with Alissa Leinonen to discuss her journey as she grew her business. Alissa Leinonen is the award-winning Founder & CEO of Seattle’s largest and longest-running women-owned catering and boxed-lunch company, Gourmondo Co. What began as a simple, four-table lunch cafe in Pike Place Market in 1996 is now a well-established leader in the Pacific Northwest food industry. Leinonen was honored as a Puget Sound Business Journal “40 Under 40” in 2008 and was a proud Women Business Owner Nellie Cashman Award finalist in 2016. In June of 2019, Alissa received the Pacific Northwest EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for the “Unstoppable” category and was named one of America’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs on the Inc. 5000 2020 list. She was also awarded Enterprising Women of the Year by Enterprising Women Magazine. Gourmondo was recently awarded the COVID-19 Champion award from the Puget Sound Business Journal for their work providing over 750,000 meals to those in need in the local community. PSBJ has also recognized Gourmondo as one of the top fastest-growing companies in the Pacific Northwest for multiple years in a row.
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Join Matt as he talks with David Nilssen, CEO and Co-Founder of Guidant Financial and Doxa7 about how he has navigated change in the workspace in a dynamic environment, but still maintains the mission and goals of his companies.
David Nilssen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guidant Financial and Doxa7. Guidant has helped nearly 25,000 entrepreneurial-minded individuals access 5 billion dollars to start or acquire a small business or franchise. While Doxa7 helps entrepreneurs to build teams leveraging global talent out of places like Vietnam and the Philippines. And, David currently serves as the Global Learning Chair for the Entrepreneurs Organization worldwide.
Matt Watson, Vice President of Development at Apex Facility Resources, Inc. has dedicated the last 35 years of his career to making the complex simple for his clients. He delivers innovative solutions that support building collaboration, development, and managing change for clients throughout North America. As a single resource partner, Apex provides comprehensive workspace change services to companies during any phase of transition.
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