The revolution has begun. The world has changed and along with it, our relationship to work, career, and the office is unlike anything we’ve experienced before. New words have entered employees’ vocabulary, words like ‘flexibility’, ‘choice’, and ‘wellbeing’ and they are here to stay.
Businesses of all sizes must now pivot to engage, support, and promote the wellbeing of their employees in order to create new opportunities for them to improve productivity and better achieve their shared goals.
Join us for an event at Home Grown, where our Founder Walter Craven will be joining a panel to discuss changing human behaviour and its impact on the future of the workplace and the inspiration that led to the creation of our Micro Offices (which is a new addition at Home Grown, the Private Members’ Club in London for entrepreneurs and investors).
Date
Tuesday 29th March
Timings
6.00pm: Guest Arrival and Drinks Reception
6.30pm: Moderated Panel/Open discussion
7.00pm: Networking
Address
Home Grown Private Members’ Club
44 Great Cumberland Place
Marylebone
London
W1H 7BS
RSVP
Register for your space by emailing membersevents@homegrownclub.co.uk.
Speakers
Clare Dowdy
Clare Dowdy is a journalist, editor, curator and event moderator. She has written about design and architecture for titles including Wallpaper, Monocle, the Financial Times, The Guardian, Wired, Blueprint, Metropolis and BBC.com/culture/designed. For several years, she had a column on co-working spaces in OnOffice. She has chaired industry events at London Design Festival and Clerkenwell Design Week. Her exhibition “Power House: The Architecture of Data Centres” is on at Roca London Gallery. And she has written the text for Made In London: from factories to workshops, which is published by Merrell later this year.
Lucy Beresford
Lucy is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She is the author of 3 novels (SOMETHING I’M NOT, INVISIBLE THREADS, and HUNGRY FOR LOVE) and one self-help book, HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS: at home, work and play. Best known for hosting a weekly Sex & Relationships phone-in show on LBC Radio, where she was dubbed ‘the naughty Mary Poppins’, Lucy is now a weekly panellist on The Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5, and reviews the papers each month on BBC News Channel. She is an Agony Aunt on ITV’s This Morning, and is a regular contributor to Sky News, Good Morning Britain and CNN. Her TEDx talk “Infidelity: to stay or to go?” has been viewed on YouTube over 2.6 million times.
Simon Jordan
Simon is a design strategist, working around the world with designers, architects, occupiers and real estate owners in the creation of places & spaces that better satisfy the communities they serve.
As former co-founder and director of architecture + design practice Jump Studios, Simon has successfully worked with a diverse range of global brands, organisations and institutions on multiple design initiatives at the intersection of brand, identity and experience.
Walter Craven
Walter is an American designer, manufacturer, and property rejuvenator. Walter has been a trusted advisor to architects and designers worldwide as a project facilitator on high end residential projects across the globe. He frequently exhibited his original modern furniture in Milan, NY and Los Angeles before selling his company in 2019. His designs reside in several permanent collections within the US including The Museum of Modern Art San Francisco. As a real estate developer, he has been officially recognized for his commitment to responsible renovation practices, supporting small business and ongoing community outreach. In 2020 he founded Make.Work.Space and developed a design for tech-enabled, bookable Micro Offices in response to the pandemic and the changing nature of the way people work. Our Micro Offices were officially launched at the London Design Festival in 2021.
