Despina Katsikakis has led innovation, research and implementation of transformative workplace environments and exemplary real estate developments worldwide for over 30 years.

As Cushman & Wakefield’s Head of Occupier Business Performance, she provides input across the firm’s global business on the rapidly-changing context of work and its impact on employee engagement, productivity and wellbeing.

With these factors increasingly determining the leasing decisions of leading corporations, Katsikakis’ unrivalled insight on the future of work benefits occupier clients – as well as the building owners and landlords seeking to attract them –through repositioning real estate to drive top line performance.

She serves on the advisory board of delosTM, the pioneers of wellness real estateTMand founders of the well building standard and regularly lectures, writes and contributes to media, research and publications on the future of the workplace.