CEO & Co-Founder
Dan is at the helm of Kadence with a sole mission to turn workplaces into vibrant, happy spaces where everyone can thrive. When he’s not busy changing the world of work, you’ll find Dan soaking up the natural, untamed beauty of California’s outdoors with his family on camping adventures.
Most councils decide to consolidate office space before they can prove it is the right call. The saving appears in the medium term financial plan, a target is attached to it, and the estates team is then asked to produce evidence for a decision that has effectively already been announced. That sequence is normal across […]
Ask a university what its space utilization is and you will usually get a single figure. Ask what that figure is made of and the answer becomes much less stable, because in a university more than in almost any other kind of organization, a utilization number is an average taken across spaces that behave in […]
CBRE says AI is already influencing space-planning decisions for 23% of occupiers. The workplace leaders I talk to are watching the rest of the company get lost, with tools that do not help them keep up. CBRE’s 2026 Americas Office Occupier Sentiment Survey put a number on a feeling a lot of workplace leaders already had. In […]
The most influential forecast in commercial real estate just floated a new job title, and I think it is the most important idea in the entire report. In this year’s PwC and ULI outlook, in a passage about how occupiers are reorganizing their floors, is the suggestion that coordinating where teams sit may soon become […]
Our team at Kadence was recently in a conversation with a large enterprise, and one thing a workplace leader on their side said has stuck with me. This particular company has publicly, very publicly, re-auged multiple times already this year and the Workplace team are feeling it. When a reorg hits and you have to […]
The market has already repriced your real estate. It did not ask whether you wanted to participate. Values have corrected, leases are getting shorter and smaller, and new supply has effectively stopped. What has not changed, in most enterprises, is how the lease decision itself gets made. That is the gap I want to close […]
Most enterprise leaders can tell you their headcount, their cost per square foot, and their target occupancy. Far fewer can tell you, in a single sentence, how their organization actually allocates space. They know the floor is busy on Tuesdays and quiet on Fridays. They know real estate is one of their largest fixed costs. […]
Digital twins already run hospitals, factories and energy grids. At a June 2026 Kadence breakfast, LSE's Prithwiraj Choudhury and WPP's Bex Moorhouse explained why the workplace is next.
Generative AI took the blame for falling junior hiring. The Broken Ladder paper points to remote work instead, which makes it a problem organizations can solve.
A workplace management system is software that centralizes space, facilities and employee activity so leaders can see how the workplace performs and decide with data.
Paul Allsopp’s article on the desk-sharing economy reads beautifully. It captures something real about the emotional experience of modern office life: the fear that as assigned desks disappear, employees are becoming “corporate nomads,” moving through the workplace like temporary visitors rather than people with a place to belong. But workplace culture has not become nomadic because […]
At IFMA, Brian Elliott and I kept coming back to the same tension. AI is accelerating the speed of business, but workplace strategy is still too often built on assumptions from a more stable era. Companies want faster answers on growth, attendance, capacity, and cost, while workplace leaders are still dealing with leases, layouts, infrastructure, […]
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