About Place
Episodes
S5 E9: Opportunities for engagement, featuring Lindsay Wilson
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Wilson, president of the fourth-largest architecture firm in the US, has a clear perspective on what makes spaces successful. In this episode,...
S5 E8: AI and workplace discovery, featuring Ian Ellison and Chris Moriarty
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On their Workplace Geeks podcast, Ian Ellison and Chris Moriarty mine today’s workplace research for applicable insights. In this episode, they join...
S5, E7: Architecture as Social Infrastructure, featuring Jeanne Gang
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang, architecture is about building relationships. It makes sense, then, that despite having built everything from ...
S5 E6: Designed to save lives, featuring Dr Anthony Chang and Laurie Placinski
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, BAMF Health is shaping the future of cancer care. We’re joined by Dr Anthony Chang, Founder and CEO, and Laurie Placinsk...
S5 E5: The future of work takes shape, featuring Debbie Lovich and Brian Elliott
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, MillerKnoll teamed up with Debbie Lovich, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group, and Brian Elliott, CEO of Work For...
S5 E4: Connecting spaces, tech, and people, featuring Izabella Lorenz
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As organizations work to strike the right balance between seamless digital experiences and meaningful in-person interactions, one company is leading...
S5 E3: Designing for menopause, featuring Kate Usher and Lori Daughtrey
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Menopause is rarely discussed at work—but its impact on an organization’s culture and bottom line is undeniable. In this episode, menopause consul...
S5 E2: AI and relationship-based work, featuring John Maeda
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To engineer, designer, and executive John Maeda, the future of AI looks optimistic. From improving design workflows to elevating memory augmentation...
S5 E1: The purpose of place making, featuring Cheryl Durst
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As more business leaders recognize design as a core business strategy, the designers they work with have become strategic collaborators and deep exper...
S4 BONUS 5: Crafting comfort
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The workplace is more than a destination for work to get done. It’s an experience that should evoke the natural comfort that enables people to work ...
S4 BONUS 4: New design differentiators, featuring Chris Leong
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At MillerKnoll, VP of Interiors Chris Leong designs spaces that put our research and insights on the workplace into practice. Listen in as he joins us...
S4 BONUS 3: Exceptional ergonomics, featuring Steven Souter
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than three decades, Colebrook Bosson Saunders has been creating award-winning ergonomic tools that seamlessly connect people and technology a...
S4 BONUS 2: What's working for the workplace
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Design Days, we tapped guests with unique perspectives on the workplace to hear what’s exciting them about the future of office design. Listen in...
S4 BONUS 1: Insights from the Archives, featuring Amy Auscherman
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We kick things off with archivist Amy Auscherman in a conversation about the evolution of modernism and the ways it has shaped how we live and work. H...
Preview: Fresh insights about place
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What better way to expand our insights from Season 4 than to share bonus episodes, including several conversations from the new MillerKnoll workplace ...
S4, E11: A future for relationship-based planning
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sociologists sounded the alarm on technology’s more negative effects on people and places many decades ago. In season 4’s final episode, we revisi...
S4, E10: Safe to fail
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation at work happens when we feel safe to fail, but how can we feel safer with our teammates in an era of distributed work? In this episode, soc...
S4, E9: From occupancy to outcomes
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This season, we've tapped into the ways organizations are innovating to support new ways of working and people coming back to the office. For this epi...
S4, E8: Working toward enticing
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enticing Office, a workplace study authored by environmental psychologist Nigel Oseland in collaboration with MillerKnoll, revealed key factors that a...
S4, E7: The impact of aesthetics
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a field that studies the effects of aesthetics on how people think and feel, neuroaesthetics can be a valuable tool for designing workplaces that m...
S4, E6: Learning from innovations in healthcare
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The demands of design for healthcare environments can teach us multitudes about creating healthier, more efficient workplaces. For this episode, we’...
S4, E5: No final design
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CBRE’s Workplace360 concept produces vibrant offices for the commercial real estate firm’s global workforce. Listen in as Peter Van Emburgh, Senio...
S4, E4: Aspiration meets reality
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new mixed-use retail and office space in Bentonville, Arkansas is redefining work and play in the mountain biking capital of the world. Apart from a...
S4, E3: Always innovating
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Workplace strategy experts Domino Risch and Kirsten Brown share how companies in Australia are layering workplace hospitality, new technologies, and a...
S4, E2: Planning for excellence
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Designing the perfect operational model gets easier when organizations prioritize their stakeholders in the process. In this episode, Assal Yavari, VP...
S4, E1: Powered by play
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does workplace planning look like at a global company in the business of play? Timothy Ahrensbach is LEGO Group’s Global Director of Workplace ...
Season 4 Preview: Let's talk about place
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MillerKnoll’s podcast, we’re deepening our focus on the impact of the workplace on organizational outcomes—and our lives. What...
S3, E11: A last look forward
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two experts from MillerKnoll’s Global Research and Insights team recap last episode’s conversation on the Harkin Institute’s inclusive design, b...
S3, E10: Designing for progress
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The road to inclusivity stops for many buildings at ADA compliance, but two architects for The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engageme...
S3, E9: Advocating for inclusion
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), there’s one research institute still pushing for more inclusive spaces ...
S3, E8: Evolving the workplace
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to create workspaces people actually want to be in? Using smart technology as a sandbox, our guests explore how workplaces can forec...
S3, E7: Back to basics
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Office density before the pandemic didn’t provide an ideal workplace experience for anyone. That’s just one of the takeaways from our chat with tw...
S3, E6: Reimagining cities
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we welcome two guests from the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS). Carsten Beck is Director of Research and Lovisa Volma...
S3, E5: Leading toward belonging
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like most weeks this season, we welcome two guests to this episode. However, since both have a knack for looking at issues from multiple angles, it fe...
S3, E4: Redesigning work
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests for this episode come bearing research from their respective organizations to spark business leaders to think differently about the physica...
S3, E3: Still a work in progress
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the insights come at you as fast as they do in this podcast, sometimes you need a chance to reflect and consider how they apply to your world. So...
S3, E2: Redefining wellbeing
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guests explore workplace wellbeing in both theory and practice. Gethin Nadin is a psychologist and Chief Innovation Officer at Benefex, ...
S3, E1: Facilitating connection
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off Season 3, host Ryan Anderson welcomes Matthew Boyle, Senior Work Shift Reporter at Bloomberg News, and Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at ...
Season 3 Preview
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 3! To kick off this season, your host—and our VP of Global Research and Insights—Ryan Anderson offers his thoughts on the state ...
Season 2 Wrap-Up
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve come to the end of another season, but there’s still time to look back in our season wrap-up. Host Ryan Anderson puts a bow on Season 2 by s...
S2, E10: The metaverse demystified
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As our Digital Marketing Strategy Lead at MillerKnoll, Chris Coleman has been helping Ryan Anderson answer questions from customers wondering whether ...
S2, E9: Workplace strategy for employee experience
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we welcome Corinne Murray, founder of Agate Studio. As a leading workplace strategist, Corinne helps organizations think differently about ...
S2, E8: How human experience can shape real estate
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disruption has been the theme of Ronen Journo’s 28-year career, so his perspective on this period of rampant experimentation in corporate real estat...
S2, E7: Moving beyond accommodation
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inclusive design is a topic not nearly enough people are talking about. This week’s guests are working to fix that. Jolene De Jong is an Applied Ins...
S2, E6: The business case for flexible working
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Anderson could not wait to share this episode with you. Our guest, Cali Williams Yost, has spent her career helping organizations reimagine ...
S2, E5: Expanding the concept of workplace
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we chat with Craig Robinson, Chief Growth Officer at flexible workplace provider, Industrious. With more than 20 years of ex...
S2, E4: Fixing what’s broken
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is on a mission to convince organizations everywhere to take the double disruption of COVID plus inflation as an opportunity to ch...
S2, E3: The pros of dynamic work
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 rolls on with a visit from Samantha Fisher, Head of Dynamic Work at Okta, an identity and access management company that’s actually expandi...
S2, E2: Rethinking the future of offices
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Anderson welcomes Phil Kirschner of global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. A self-proclaimed “accidental workplace strategi...
S2, E1: The science of social connection
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin Leimgruber, Ph.D., joins us to kick off the season. Kristi is a behavioral researcher at BetterUp, the virtual coaching and mentorship platfor...
Season 2 Preview
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Anderson takes time to share some highlights from Season 1 and set the stage for Season 2 by answering the two most frequently asked questio...
Episode 9: Everyone wants belonging
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the final episode of Season 1 of Looking Forward, we welcome john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of...
Episode 8: Rebuilding our organizational networks
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week on the podcast is Andreas Hoffbauer, Ph.D., a sociologist by trade and the founder and director of the organizational and behavior...
Episode 7: Putting our insights to the test
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we offer a glimpse behind the scenes of our recently renovated Design Yard facility in West Michigan. Home to several teams ...
Episode 6: Architecting interaction
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes, Founder/Lead Architect of AKKA Architects in Amsterdam, is the type of guest we could talk with for hours—but you’ll hav...
Episode 5: Know your customer
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Steve Todd, AVP, Global Head of Workplace at Nasdaq, and creator of Open Sourced Workplace—a resource for real estate and wor...
Episode 4: Better experiences through smarter buildings
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ryan welcomes Andrea Chegut, Ph.D., Director of the Real Estate Innovation Lab at MIT. A data scientist first and foremost, Andrea’s work...
Episode 3: Rethinking the concept of workplace
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, host Ryan Anderson welcomes one of the most experienced and insightful leaders in the workplace strategy space: Adrienne Rowe, Head of Work...
Episode 2: Remote work for inclusivity and better living
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ryan tackles remote work with one of the world’s foremost experts on the topic, Darren Murph. Darren is Head of Remote at GitLab, a DevOp...
Episode 1: Embracing a more flexible future
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our inaugural episode, Ryan welcomes Brian Elliott, Executive Leader of Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack to help companies rethink wor...