What are our Focus Labs?

Quick, hands-on sessions to kickstart fresh thinking and sharpen future skills.

How office design fosters engagement, creativity, and belonging in the hybrid work routine.

Practical insights and tools for the human-centered redesign of workspaces.

For HR, leaders, workplace designers, and anyone who wants to make offices more vibrant.

Duration: 3-4 hours

Price: €450

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How leadership can be reimagined in the age of AI, with a focus on empathy, creativity, and strategic thinking.

Concrete tools and approaches for a human-centered, future-proof leadership practice.

For leaders, HR professionals, and innovators who want to strengthen the human value in an AI-driven work environment.

Duration: 3-4 hours

Price: €450

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Focus Lab A: Designing Offices Employees Enjoy - Transforming Offices for Engagement and Creativity

As remote work becomes the preferred choice for many employees, companies are facing the challenge of bringing their office spaces back to life. How can they create spaces that attract and engage employees, reconnecting them with the purpose of the office? This workshop explores how to transform offices from mere physical spaces into vibrant, engaging environments with gravity, drawing employees in, answering their needs and helping them thrive. Participants will learn why office design is crucial to fostering a lively work atmosphere, gain insights from cognitive science on how we experience physical space, and explore real-world examples of transformative office designs. Through collaborative exercises and hands-on activities, participants will collect inspirations and evaluate their own workspaces, discovering practical, tangible steps to make them more appealing, human-centered, and purposeful.

Goals & Impact

  • Understanding of the impact of spaces on thinking and work processes.
  • Inspiring examples of how spatial qualities can support different knowledge processes.
  • Practical tools and exercises to start reimagining and enhancing office spaces.


Target Audience

  • HR professionals looking to enhance workplace engagement and well-being.
  • Office managers tasked with optimizing physical spaces for hybrid work models.
  • Executives and team leaders seeking to reconnect employees with the office and its purpose.
  • Facility designers and workplace strategists wanting to understand how design impacts knowledge processes and creativity.
  • Teams interested in fostering collaboration and exploring ways to improve their shared workspaces.
  • Anyone passionate about creating workspaces that inspire and enable people to thrive.
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Lena Müller-Naendrup
Urban Ecosystems Architect

Workshop facilitator

Lena Müller-Naendrup is a cognitive scientist and urban ecosystem consultant who specialises in spatial cognition, urban psychology, and how places answer to human needs. She designs innovative spaces that explore and transform the interplay between human behaviour, perception, and architectural design.
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Focus Lab B: Reframing Leadership for an AI-Enhanced Workplace

As (gen)AI begins to take over routine, repetitive tasks, leaders are confronted with a compelling challenge: How can they reimagine their roles to foster environments where human creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking take center stage? How can leadership shift from traditional management to an approach that embraces the uniquely human qualities essential for thriving in an AI-enhanced workplace? This workshop explores the transformation of leadership into a human-centered practice. Participants will discover why changing leadership is crucial in today’s AI era, uncover the mindsets that underpin innovative and empathetic leadership, and examine real-world practices redefining what it means to lead. Through interactive exercises, dynamic group dialogs, and reflective activities, attendees will gather insights and craft tangible strategies to empower their teams—ensuring that even as technology handles the “what” and “how,” leaders can focus on the “why” and “who.”

Goals & Impact

  • Understanding the impact of evolving leadership on team dynamics and innovation.
  • Inspiring examples of how human-centered leadership can elevate empathy, creativity, and strategic insight in the workplace.
  • Practical tools and exercises to begin reimagining and enhancing leadership practices in an AI-driven world.

Target Audience

  • Senior leaders and executives looking to transition their leadership approach in the AI era.
  • HR professionals and people managers eager to foster environments where empathy, creativity, and strategic thinking thrive.
  • Team leaders aiming to empower employees by focusing on uniquely human capabilities.
  • Innovators and strategists interested in developing forward-thinking leadership practices.
  • Professionals passionate about reimagining leadership in an AI-driven workplace.
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Oliver Lukitsch
Agency Catalyst

Workshop facilitator

Oliver Lukitsch is a Senior Consultant at theLivingCore and has led a wide range of transformation and research projects. His interests and work focus on the nature of artificial intelligence, human-AI interaction, and the distinction between the humane and the artificial. He is also interested in how uncertainty can drive, rather than undermine, purposeful organizational change and agency.
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