Meeting/Event Information

Crafting a Successful Return to Office Strategy –
Employee Experience is More Important Than Ever!

If your employer is considering their return to office plans, do not make the mistake of assuming employees are looking forward to coming back to their 2019 office experience. Expectations have radically changed. Our panel of HR and Real Estate experts will cover their experiences, real estate trends, and questions you should be asking of senior leaders and your employees.

During the panel discussion you will learn:

• Key issues to be considered
• Research and Trends
• Employee Expectations
• Lessons Learned

Whatever your employer’s plans are you, you are sure to learn about the employee experience trends from our engaging panel!

Our Panelists
Angie Earlywine is a Senior Director in the Total Workplace Division of Global Occupier Services at Cushman & Wakefield. She has over 20 years of subject matter expertise providing leadership in the areas of innovative workplace strategies, strategic facility planning, and workplace change management. Angie is an industry speaker on alternative workplace strategies, futureproofing and bleeding edge workplace best practices, and is a thought-leader on navigating post COVID-19 workplace re-entry strategies. Angie is a former Director on the CREW Network Global Board of Directors, a member of CREW St. Louis and CREW Chicago, a member of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), a member of IFMA's Workplace Evolutionaries (WE) group, the IFMA Corporate Real Estate Council, Urban Land Institute (ULI), CoreNet, and serves on the YWCA of Metro St. Louis Board of Directors. She is a recipient of the CREW Career Advancement for Women Award and is an inductee of the Midwest Real Estate Hall of Fame in 2020.

Rebecca Johnson is a Project Manager with POE, a Workspace Planning and Solutions firm in St. Louis. Rebecca has experience in facility and occupancy planning, workplace strategy and change management- including corporate, non-profit, and manufacturing clients. In her free-time, you will find her hiking or biking, or attempting to shoot baskets with her two young sons.

Lezli Jones is a Senior Site Occupancy Planner at Bayer, and is a creative and innovative design professional with experience in project management, interior design, and occupancy planning. Her strong problem-solving approach utilizing highly effective communication skills, professional demeanor, and collaborative leadership style yields superior customer service, creativity, and excellent results. She has been the Senior Site Occupancy Planner at Bayer for 1 ½ years and was an embedded consultant for four years prior.

Lezli received her Bachelor of Arts from the Interior Design Program at Mount Mary University in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. She started her career in commercial design with Kohl’s Department Stores. For three years she focused on remodeling existing Kohl’s locations across the US. After 9/11 she decided it was time to head back to St. Louis to be closer to family. She took what she thought was a temporary design position with Gegg Design, a residential kitchen, and bath design firm. Things took off and she worked there for 15 years on award-winning projects. Looking for a new challenge she decided to try corporate design at what was then Monsanto and is now Bayer. Designing in the corporate environment has its own challenges but add a pandemic and navigating the hybrid return to work and every day is a new adventure.

Susan Conrad leads the prospect and client experience across Plancorp’s divisions and locations. As a shareholder and member of the Leadership Team, she focuses on innovation, technology, and engagement to ensure that prospects and clients experience The Plancorp Way.

For over 30 years, Susan has helped employers navigate corporate retirement. She relocated to St. Louis in 2011 to lead Plancorp’s Retirement Plan Advisors division. Her team is recognized as experts in retirement plan industry helping employers focus on fiduciary liability, plan design, investment oversight and employee engagement.

Since moving from Memphis, Susan has enjoyed making St. Louis her home. She joined the Professional Women’s Alliance and is involved with several other organizations through the city. In her free time, Susan likes to travel, explore new restaurants, and spend time with friends and family.

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