Despina Katsikakis

Global Lead, Total Workplace • United Kingdom

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Despina Katsikakis

Global Lead, Total Workplace • United Kingdom

For over 35 years Katsikakis has led innovation, research and implementation of transformative workplace environments for global corporates and the visioning of exemplary real estate developments for investors worldwide.

In her role at Cushman & Wakefield, she provides input across the firm’s global business on the rapidly changing context of work and its impact on employee engagement, productivity and wellbeing and the future role of the workplace.

With these factors increasingly determining the real estate decisions of leading corporations, Katsikakis’ unrivalled insight on the future of work benefits occupier clients – as well as building landlords and investors – through repositioning commercial real estate to drive top line performance.

She is Senior Vice President of the British Council of Offices (BCO) and will be taking on the Presidency in 2023. Serves on the advisory board of Delos™, the pioneers of Wellness Real Estate and founders of the WELL Building Standard and regularly lectures, writes, and contributes to media, research and publications on the future of the workplace.

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“Why we need to take a hospitality mindset" with Despina Katsikakis
We need to bring new skills to the industry; we don’t need more chartered surveyors, we need more analysts, tech designers, curators, experience managers, human behavior experts, and environmental and wellbeing experts. We as an industry need to take a hospitality mindset to focus on customer satisfaction and ongoing loyalty and service rather than transactions.

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Lessons from China: How global business has changed forever
Commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has built a prototype called the "Six Feet Office," which encourages workers to continue social distancing when they return to the office.

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Fast Company (image)
Our offices will never be the same after COVID-19. Here’s what they could look like
It's hard to imagine now, but we will one day have to go back to our offices. So how will work...work? That's the question Cushman & Wakefield is answering already.

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The post-pandemic workplace will hardly look like the one we left behind
Through Cushman & Wakefield’s joint venture with Chinese real estate developer Vanke, the firm has already advised thousands of companies in Asia about returning to work.

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Business Insider feat Despina (image)
10 Real-Estate Insiders Lay Out the Future of Flex-Offices, and How Employers are Preparing Now
The costs for flex operators will be similar to those at traditional at traditional offices, Despina Katsikakis, Cushman & Wakefield's head of occupier business performance said.

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What offices may look like in a post-pandemic era, if they exist at all
Cushman & Wakefield developed a best practices guide and has also made a prototype of a "Six Feet Office," a reimagined office space that encourages social distancing at work and implemented a full-scale example.

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