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Nyles Scott
Moderator

Nyles Scott

Director of Workplace Consulting

OpenSquare

Todd Lee

Todd Lee

Senior Director of Operations

McKinstry

Assal Yavari

Assal Yavari

Sr Director of Global Workplace

Okta

Mike Denney

Mike Denney

SVP, Chief Real Estate Officer

Providence

Nyles Scott

Moderator

OpenSquare

Nyles has been working in design solutions for nearly six years with clients from across the country. He began his career in San Francisco leading projects for a top commercial furniture manufacturer. Nyles managed multiple projects to meet regulatory requirements set by the City of San Francisco to have publicly accessible spaces in all new commercial buildings. These multi-floor installations encompassed community amenity spaces, commercial interiors, and public outdoor spaces. His projects included spaces designed for the leading companies based in the area as well as multi-state organizations.

Today, Nyles is the Director of Workplace Consultants for OpenSquare, leading a team of people who specialize in commercial environments. He is passionate about helping clients to fulfill their goals by providing community and commercial environments that support users, residents, guests, and employees. His focus is on partnering with architects, designers, commercial real estate professionals, and corporate leaders to achieve their business goals through well-planned spaces. He believes well-designed spaces need to be dynamic, flexible, embrace the community and ultimately lead to more engaged relationships between residents, staff, and all who walk into a space.

Todd Lee

Senior Director of Operations

McKinstry

Todd has over 30 years’ of experience in the building industry. Todd is a ‘native’ Seattleite as he moved to Seattle back in 1972 as the billboard, ‘The last one to leave Seattle turn off the lights?’ was situated along I-5.

Todd graduated with a B.S. in Construction Management from the University of Washington in 1989 and joined Sellen Construction as a Project Engineer. Over a 28-year career at Sellen, he oversaw many iconic projects in the Northwest including Swedish Issaquah, a 600K SF downtown highrise, UW Foster School of Business, Paccar Business School, and UW Medicine South Lake Union. Todd moved on from Sellen in 2017 and joined Urban Visions where he spent five-years and was an Executive Vice President overseeing a $2.0B portfolio of commercial real estate developments in Seattle. Most recently, Todd has joined McKinstry as a Senior Director of Operations.

As a longtime Seattle area resident, Todd enjoys many Northwest activities such as skiing, golf, fly fishing, and hiking. He spends a lot of time at his home in Suncadia with his wife and two children. And, of course, his best friends, Georgie and Wally (4-year and 2-year old Bernese Mountain dogs).

Mike Denney

SVP, Chief Real Estate Officer

Providence

As SVP, Chief Real Estate Officer at Providence Health & Services, Mike is responsible for the Real Estate Strategy & Operations teams including Planning & Design, Construction Project Management, Facilities, EVS, Physical Security, Life Safety, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Leasing, Portfolio Strategy, Real Estate Development, Property Management and Lease Administration for Providence's 52 Hospital Ministries and over 1,300 outpatient and administrative sites across 7 states in the Western US.

Summary

  1. What are some immediate changes experts recommend landlords and tenants alike make, to maximize their space in a socially distant capacity?

  2. How do you employers plan to keep their employees healthy emotionally and behaviorally as they return to the office?

  3. What changes to furnishings and implementations of technology can be utilized to increase productivity and efficiency in a new socially distant world?

  4. What, if anything, can Seattleites learn from Asia and Europe as those markets and economies reopened and their citizens returned to work?

  5. New tenant demands (staggered shifts, more hours in the workday, advanced ventilation, additional cleaning, etc.) present challenges – how do owners and landlords plan to adhere to personal and city-wide energy and sustainability regulations?

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Time Activity
10:30 PM
11:15 PM
The Intersection of Wellness & Workplace Design

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