OUR TEAM + OUR MODEL
Our vision is to solve the industry’s biggest challenges, while always loving what we do. We are a dedicated team of passionate experts, laser-focused on delivering high-quality work. We provide a platform that empowers everyone on the team to do the best work of their careers.
We are built with the intention to maximize the value of your investment in us.
We are distributed, to access the best talent in the world.
We are visionary, yet highly pragmatic.
Our team has spent time on both sides of the workplace equation. We have spent decades designing and delivering workplace experiences, but we have spent almost as much time working internally, so we know the challenges you’re facing and the opportunities ahead of you.
With Workshape Labs, we gain insights through our research advisors, our research partners and our Labs Experiences that are fed directly into our database. This tool provides us with a resource and perspective that is totally unique to our industry and immediately beneficial to our clients.
Brett Hautop
Founding Partner
Brett created Workshape to feed a lifelong passion to use design to help people get more value out of the work they do. He feeds his unlimited curiosity and need to be making things by escaping to his shop and cutting up things to put them back together to make better things.
Sandi Lam Harder
Head of Labs
Sandi leads Workshape Labs, where she gets to bring together her creativity, curiosity, and passion for people and the places that bring out the best in them. She pinches herself daily that she gets to help bridge the gap between human-centered research and practice. She shares her home workspace with two mischievous corgis, ensuring life stays just a little chaotic.
Tonya Thornburgh
Workplace Leader
Tonya is an empathetic Real Estate and Workplace strategist dedicated to improving people, space and systems through thoughtful design and innovation. With a versatile skill set, she thrives as a "Swiss Army Knife" of workplace design, real estate, technology and employee experience.
Rayyan Fani
Chief of Staff
Rayyan keeps the wheels turning at Workshape, making sure our people, projects, and priorities are aligned and moving forward with purpose. With a background in organizational development and a love for building high-performing teams, he brings structure to our big ideas and heart to our daily work. He's most in his element when translating strategy into action — or planning his next travel adventure.
Nikki Xia
Brand and Design
Michelle Samura
Advisor Workshape Labs
Michelle is Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Santiago Canyon College. Her research interests center on the relationship among space, belonging, and community. Michelle studies key design principles and elements of built environments that promote belonging in education, workplace, healthcare, hospitality, and community settings.
Hande Burcu Deniz
Workplace Experience & Design Researcher
Hande brings a research-driven lens to workplace strategy, drawing on her background in environmental psychology and design. She’s particularly interested in how the workplace environment impacts behavior and well-being, and how those insights can inform healthier, more effective workplaces. Outside of work, she’s often planning her next travel adventure or experimenting with new recipes.
B Sanborn
Advisor Workshape Labs
B leads design research at DLR Group, where they explore how spaces shape our minds, bodies, and work. With a background spanning anthropology to organizational behavior, B is passionate about bridging disciplines to create environments that truly support people. They’re active in communities like EDRA, the APA, and Workshape Labs—always chasing better ways to connect research and real life.
Kevin Sauer
Workplace Leader
Kevin is a workplace strategist with an architecture background and a passion for technology. He has led workplace transformation projects in 30+ countries, bringing a rare mix of design insight, global perspective, and hands-on experience. Kevin helps organizations create people-centered, tech-enabled environments that support how work really happens. Outside of work, he’s usually chasing his next stamp in his passport.
Phil Kirschner
Workplace Leader
Phil bridges strategy, domains, and delivery, helping leaders turn transformation into an operating system for work. With 20+ years across HR, IT, real estate, and management consulting, he's built new functions, reimagined workforces, and enabled cross-silo alignment. Phil is obsessive about systems, metrics, and real execution because work should work, not be endlessly debated.
Domino Risch
Workplace Leader
Domino wears many hats: workplace strategist, designer, and work futurist. Her focus? Offering independent guidance and advice on how to strategically enhance modern work and workplaces. 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.
Katie Crepeau-Harm
Workplace Leader
Katie helps organizations create workplaces that foster creativity and connection, drawing on nearly 20 years of experience spanning architecture, social enterprise, and corporate real estate. She's led 23 Future of Work programs impacting over 700,000 employees and now focuses on organizational culture and transformation for purpose-driven organizations. She recently painted 32 paintings in four months and loves exploring the Bay Area in her yellow 1966 VW Beetle with her partner and kids.
Kim Le Geyt
Workplace Leader
Kim puts employee experience at the centre of workplace strategy and transformation. From rightsizing the portfolio, to people centric design and change management, she’s passionate about all things people and space.
Courtney Guthridge
Workplace Leader
Courtney is a flexible workplace advisor, coworking expert, and former commercial real estate broker with a passion for the shift taking place in how and where work gets done. She helps companies adapt in creative ways by designing flexible workspace strategies that balance leadership objectives with employee needs. With expertise spanning coworking, hybrid models, and distributed teams, Courtney brings both strategic perspective and practical execution to workplace challenges.
David Music
Workplace Leader
David Music helps companies drive transformative real estate change. He brings an operational, data-driven approach to understanding where a portfolio is today in order to craft tailored solutions to deliver better real estate costs and employee outcomes.
Shuujat Ahmad
Workplace Leader
Shujaat is Founder and CEO of Belong & Lead, and Co-founder and Chief AI + Human Strategy Officer for CLaiMB. At Belong & Lead, he is on a mission to help those who will be left behind by companies in the AI era. His vision to make a future of work that works for humans and has three multipliers to get there: AI readiness, human connection, and purposeful leadership to optimize for both business and society. At CLaiMB, he is focused on AI readiness for CEOs so that they are not just focused on the technology but also the human side of AI adoption that fuels prosperity, not just productivity. He has been a corporate anomaly for 20 years, working across the globe, from operations to supply chain to strategy and then pioneering on people analytics and future of work. Shujaat has worked for years in tech behind the scenes influencing executive decision making, on strategy and innovation, and then pivoting to mythbust on talent, culture, and the future of work.
Adam Stoltz
Workplace Leader
Adam is a workplace strategist with a diverse professional history and experience across the lifecycle of the built environment. On the heels of an initial career in advertising, Adam migrated his research and strategy chops to impact space and place, where he would spend the next 15 years working across architecture, real estate services, strategy consultancies, and in-house roles. Professionally he is passionate about using tangible data to help organizations make better informed, more confident workplace decisions, influencing how space is occupied, managed, and used. When he’s not doing any of that, you can find him tending the pumpkin & eggplant in his garden, with his wife and two daughters, in Larchmont, NY. Adam earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters in Urban Planning from Hunter College.
Melissa Fisher
Workplace Leader
Dr. Melissa Fisher, a cultural anthropologist and applied transdisciplinary scholar, is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design at The New School. She ethnographically maps the future of work and space, guiding the design of post-COVID equitable work environments. Author of Wall Street Women, Frontiers of Capital, and a forthcoming book on the future of work, she translates culture into clear strategy. Her lens, shaped by her earlier career experiences in postmodern dance and graphic design in NYC, connects people, place, and movement.
Brittney Van Matre
Workplace Leader
Brittney Van Matre is the Founder and CEO of Rewild Work Strategies, a consultancy that transforms organizational culture and empowers leaders for the future of work. With over 23 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies like Nike and Google, she blends her expertise in psychology, workplace strategy, and business operations to help organizations foster innovation, collaboration, and well-being.