Making work, workplace strategy & workplace design more human
As attitudes toward work rapidly evolve, Placeology is dedicated to offering experienced, independent strategic insight and advice to organizations who want to redefine their vision of modern knowledge work; and bridge the gap between work and workplaces, culture, leadership, process and technology.
Domino Risch, Founder & Director
Recognized globally as a thought leader and advocate for advancing modern work practices, Domino is known for her expertise in navigating complex organizational changes through the lens of workplace design. Her extensive experience, combined with a knack for fostering strong client relationships, shines through in her project portfolio, written works, and public speaking engagements – all of which underscore her mission: to make work more human.
With a proven record of leveraging research, data, and stakeholder input to shape effective strategies and design, Domino excels at simplifying complexity. She thrives in leading diverse teams and providing strategic direction aligned with organizational objectives and culture. Her personal commitment to supporting neurodiversity and wellbeing further enriches her contributions, positively impacting the work experience for numerous leading organizations worldwide.
Following an exceptionally successful career as a workplace strategist and designer at some of Australia's leading design firms, Domino is now following her purpose as an independent work futurist - allowing her to amplify beyond ‘design’ and place creation; helping to shape the future of work and workplaces for organisations where the opportunity starts before and goes beyond purely spatial outcomes.
She delights in conversations with people and organisations that share her purpose - to make the experience of work more human.
How can Placeology help?
There are a myriad of ways that Placeology can help diverse organisations successfully nagivate the future of work, here are a few examples:
Workplace Strategy Creation
A workplace strategy is more than just figuring out how many workstations, offices or meeting rooms are needed, though that is often part of one. Identifying the aspiration, purpose and goals of an organization is foundational to creating a unique cultural and spatial response that goes beyond desks and chairs; reflecting the future vision of your team, your culture & brand, how you work, where you work and the tech you use to stitch it all together.
Change Management
Change management is critical to the success of any workplace project, facilitating a smooth transition from legacy to hybrid (and beyond) ways of working that inevitably involve adapting to new processes, tools and methods of using space by guiding the development of behaviours, processes, and protocols in ways that increase employee engagement and drives meaningful transformation at the team and organisational level.
Workplace Activation & Enablement
Through stakeholder facilitation – from informal conversations to deep dive workshops and investigating the hard numbers – an existing workplace activation plan pinpoints what your people need and identifies what might be holding them back. Whether it's refining work-practices to suit a new workspace, or adapting a legacy workspace to contemporary ways of working, enabling people to be their best at work is the key to success.
Future of Work Consulting
The pandemic accelerated issues that existed before 2020, and with the rise of hybrid work we have firmly arrived in the 4th Industrial Era, but there is much to be done in humanising ‘work’. Overly large, mostly empty workplaces cannot fulfill sustainability targets or the very human desire for an energising experience that “pays back” in-person attendance. The focus must shift to re-inventing how work is done, before mandating where it happens.
Keynote Speaking & Thought Leadership
A captivating and entertaining speaker, Domino employs her unique style and wealth of experience in keynote presentations by sharing insights, anecdotes, and cutting-edge information about the future of work based on her experience as a workplace futurist and designer. She is a sought after writer for mainstream media, industry and academic publishers; helping to shape the trajectory of work in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Commercial Property Developement Support
Commercial real estate is under more pressure than ever with rising levels of volatility and disruption. Collaborating with developers, asset owners and landlords to co-design human-centered strategies that integrate people, technology, and place; and bringing a tenant-centric lens to commercial developments is vital to ensuring the built environment responds to what tenants need to magnetically attract people back to work.
Commissioning & Interpreting Research
There is a myriad of opinion, editorials and clickbait headlines about what's happening in the world of work, and it can be hard to understand what the underlying issues are and what to believe. Whether it's undertaking targeted new research through stakeholder engagement, or collation of available data sets and published research, Placeology can help bring an evidence-based understanding of modern knowledge work.
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