Workplace

SILQ Talks: Wood without Trees

Forests take hundreds of years to grow. Flax takes 100 days. Lingrove CEO Joe Luttwak joined SILQ Talks to share his breakthrough in material science. Lingrove is a materials and design firm focused on plant based fibers and resins — creating a material that looks like wood, but is stronger, lighter and more moldable. SILQ Talks celebrate boundary-pushing ideas inspired by the innovative material, shape and construction of the SILQ chair. Watch past episodes.
Workplace

Human Nature

Meet the person behind hand selecting millions of square feet of wood veneer each year for Steelcase customers.
Active Learning

Active Learning Center Grant Launches Fifth Cycle

The Active Learning Center Grant from Steelcase Education is launching its fifth cycle to identify educators at the leading edge of active learning pedagogies.

Videos

Sensor Data Aids in $1 Million Redesign Decision

With their staff nearly doubling in less than five years, One Workplace’s Santa Clara showroom and work environment was starting to feel cramped. Faced with a renovation that could cost over $1 million, they enlisted Steelcase’s Workplace Advisor to help them make a data-driven decision about how they could best use their space. Some of the results are surprising.

Workplace

Creating In and Outside the Box

HOK designers get creative, get messy and design their own IRYS Pods.
Culture

How Beth Comstock Survived the ‘F’ Word in Business

Beth Comstock, former GE Vice Chair and CMO, tells us how to thrive in the midst of failure, the “F” word in business. The self-described “changemaker in chief” shares stories from her book Imagine It Forward, how she gets her crazy ideas and what trends she’s watching right now.

Wellbeing

Four Ways to Weave Nature into the Workplace

How to embrace biophilic design to create a rejuvenating environment for employees.
Education

Classroom Revamp

Discover how four Active Learning Center Grant recipients embrace a more collaborative approach to education by transforming their space.

Brand

Introducing the West Elm Work Collection

This initial suite of products from West Elm and Steelcase supports the changing preferences of people at work.
Agile

The Business Value of Joy

Who do you serve and what does delight look like for them? Menlo Innovations CEO and co-founder Richard Sheridan says these are the questions that have helped his team create an agile place to work filled with joy. Listen to discover the business value of joy. Interested in agile? Explore Transforming IT at Steelcase: An Agile Case Study.
Education

Building the Classroom of the Future

How one university is using Steelcase Education classrooms to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
Workplace

Make Your Office Less Spooky

Five lessons we learned as kids on Halloween that can translate to a better place to work.