17 Jul Inspiring Leaders of Coworking Spaces around the World
The modern workforce doesn’t spend thirty years at the same job, for the same company, working out of the same building. The modern workforce has changed. At the forefront of this change are the people who are working to build a way of working that fits with our modern time. Coworking spaces have become so popular, and are still gaining popularity, because they make sense. Here are some inspiring leaders of the coworking world.
He’s coauthor of “The Rise of the Naked Economy” and CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based NextSpace, one of the most popular chains of coworking spaces out there. Neuner said in an interview that the shift in the workspace will affect many other areas of life: “We’ll see changes in where we live, how we educate our kids, how we get around and what we ultimately value in our lives.” For Neuner to shift to coworking spaces is a signifier of bigger, better things in the world.
He’s the founder of the 170,000 square-foot technology-based coworking space campus named Factory in Berlin. Some of his first tenants at Factory include Twitter, Mozilla, SoundCloud and Zendesk. Schaefer’s choice to build the facility on a site that sits where the former Berlin Wall used to be is no accident. Schaefer wants to provide a space for companies to move the world forward. He was quoted saying he wants the Factory to be “a playground for entrepreneurs that will help to transform Berlin.” Schaefer has plans to keep building more facilities of this size, and you can bet that he won’t stop with just transforming Berlin.
A former trend analyst, Sharon Ann Lee strives to make the space that people work in conducive to the work they’re doing. After working in a traditional workspace for many years, she founded Jellyfish Cartel. It is a bright, colorful and playful place for getting work done. The space was called “The Coolest Coworking Space We’ve Ever Seen” by Wired magazine. Lee was inspired by the workspace she saw in the documentary about Charles and Ray Eams called The Architect and the Painter. That space is what helped her create her own coworking space: “I liked the idea of people doing totally different things and butting up against each other in those accidental serendipitous moments.” Lee’s space is like no other coworking space, and her DIY décor and brightly colored, outside-the-box approach to creating a coworking space is attractive to many entrepreneurs and startups.
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