Webinar: The War for Talent: Workplace Strategy as a Competitive Edge by WeWork Global

The War for Talent: Workplace Strategy as a Competitive Edge

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Uncover how hybrid work and flexible office space give companies an edge in attracting and retaining top talent. Gain insights into how thoughtful office design and location drive productivity, culture, and long-term employee engagement.

Presenters

Christina Clark

Vice Chairman | Newmark

Christina Clark is an experienced global real estate strategist with over 20 years of experience advising high-growth companies. Skilled in strategic planning and negotiation, she has brokered over $3 billion worth of office real estate transactions worldwide. Clark is passionate about creating efficient real estate solutions that drive business success by aligning business, economic, and cultural drivers.

She believes in leveraging technology and data to make informed decisions on where, when, and how to succeed in a highly competitive and rapidly changing global marketplace, while achieving growth and profitability goals.

Wayne Lambert

Director of Supplier Diversity | Turner & Townsend

As the Director of Supplier Diversity at Turner & Townsend, Wayne Lambert leads efforts to enhance the firm’s supplier inclusion program and create contract and capacity building opportunities for diverse businesses in the supply chain, including and not limited to small, local, minority, women, veteran and disadvantaged businesses. Wayne works with public and private sector clients and provides services to meet utilization targets, amongst other internal and external diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Previously, Wayne worked in the public-sector, where he had over 15 years of experience in supplier and workforce diversity, spending time in New York City’s (NYC) Mayor’s Office of M/WBE as Deputy Director of Programs, as Chief Diversity and Industry Relations Officer with the NYC Department of Design & Construction, led M/WBE efforts and supported health equity initiatives at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and served at NYC’s Department of Small Business Services, where he connected over 10,000 small businesses to public and private sector opportunities.

Wayne also serves as a Board Member on New York City’s Procurement Policy Board (PPB), recently served as Director of DE&I on the Board for the Society for Marketing Professionals (SMPS) and is a member of One Hundred Black Men of New York.

Gianna DelliCarpini

Chief People Officer | WeWork

In her 8-year tenure at WeWork, Gianna has held several leadership roles in the People Team, including Vice President of Global People Operations & Total Rewards. In this function, she led global HR strategy and operations through complex organizational moments, including human capital planning during the Chapter 11 process, managing the global HR budget, and building global reward programs for the company. Before joining WeWork, she worked at consulting firms like Deloitte and Capgemini, specializing in organizational transformation and talent strategy for Fortune 500 clients.

Suzanne Heidelberger

Managing Partner, Real Edge Advisors

With a portfolio that includes real estate successes at Skadden, Deutsche Bank, American Express, and Fidelity, Suzanne’s expertise in leading multinational real estate organizations includes strategy, leadership development, and organizational transformation. Her deep understanding of employee experience, global markets, industry trends and best practices deliver innovative strategic solutions.

Kevin Kelly

Vice Chairman | JLL

Kevin Kelly leads a team of data scientists, management consultants and real estate brokers at JLL, who leverage unique data sources and methods to optimize decisions centered around location and real estate. The team brings the decision sciences close to heart and seeks to quantify the impact of real estate and location on key business drivers – primarily the retention and attraction of talent – to inform strategic real estate decisions and maximize value. At their core, Kevin and his team believe that location and real estate are critical to a business’ success.

Prior to joining JLL in 2024, Kevin was a Vice Chair at Cushman & Wakefield. In this position, Kevin helped to lead the firm’s KLG team and was the group’s lead Workforce Planning | Location Strategy and Site Selection expert. Kevin is a trained data scientist and avid data enthusiast; he leverages his background in GIS (geographic information systems) and spatial sciences to help clients unravel unique and creative solutions that are often conceptually out-of-the-box but always statistically valid. Kevin is also experienced at presenting these findings directly to executive leadership and concisely communicating key decision points that effectively shape the road map to an optimized solution.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Kevin was a member of the KLG Advisors Location Strategy Practice for five years. Before joining KLG, he worked at the Los Angeles County Public Health Department of Epidemiology performing advanced spatial analysis in pursuit of gaining a geographic understanding of the spread and distribution of illness. Kevin lives down at the Jersey Shore in Atlantic Highlands. His passion is surfing year-round, and when he’s not catching waves, he loves running around with his three wild sons: Lachlan (5), George (4), and Hayes (1).

Nick DeMarinis

Head of Leasing, USC | WeWork

Nick DeMarinis is an experienced revenue executive focusing on technology in the Real Estate, Human Resources and Media industries. He is currently the Vice President of Sales at WeWork, a certified executive coach, and startup advisor.

At WeWork, Nick drives revenue growth and leads the company’s leasing business in some of its largest and highest priority markets, including New York City.

Prior to his current role, Nick was a sales executive at Yahoo and later joined LinkedIn as one of their first employees in New York City. In 2013, he moved to Hong Kong to open LinkedIn’s office and help scale the business across Asia Pacific.

Nick earned his Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Saint Leo University in Tampa, Florida, and a Master's Degree in International Business from St. John's University in Rome, Italy.

Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his wife and twin boys, trying to figure out how to bring dinosaurs back to life, or training to become Point Guard for the New York Knicks.

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