Coworking Success Stories: From Startups To Giants [Webinar]

Coworking’s biggest operators didn’t scale overnight. In this webinar, held June 25th, 2024, we sat down with the people who built some of today’s most successful coworking spaces to hear how they grew, what broke along the way, and how they fixed it.

Coworking success stories are the real accounts of how flexible workspace operators grew from a single location to multi-site brands, including the operational, financial, and leadership decisions that got them there.

Who are the speakers?

Three industry leaders joined the panel to share their experiences, tactics, and hard-won lessons.

• Sarah Travers; Chief Executive Officer, Workbar
• Chris Smith; Chief Revenue Officer, THRIVE
• Samantha Kenney; Chief Marketing Officer, OfficeRnD

What does the webinar cover?

The panel works through the strategies, decisions, and personal stories behind scaling a coworking business.

The speakers start with the key strategies they used to grow their spaces, including the specific challenges they hit during expansion and how they got past them.

They then get into the operational and infrastructural changes needed to support a growing number of members and locations, with practical advice on managing that growth, including the technology they brought in to do it.

Sarah and Chris close by looking at how their approach to leadership and team development changed as their spaces grew, and what they learned about building a team that can keep up with fast growth.

What will you learn?

Watch the recording and you’ll come away with:

• Proven strategies for scaling coworking spaces
• Solutions to common challenges faced during expansion
• Best practices for efficient change management
• The role of technology and leadership in driving growth
• Ways to adapt as member demands change

If you run a coworking space, work at a startup, or just follow how flexible workspaces are changing, this session has practical advice you can use.

OfficeRnD Flex is a coworking space management platform that helps operators scale profitably by growing revenue, cutting operational overhead, and running everything from one system.

How do I watch it?

See how leaders in coworking worked through their toughest challenges to reach operational and financial success.

Watch the recording here.

Want more from our panel sessions? Take a look at our earlier webinar, “Essential Coworking and Flex Space Trends for 2024.”

Frequently asked questions

What makes a coworking space successful?

Successful operators tend to get a few things right at once: a clear strategy for adding locations, tight operations as they grow, technology that removes manual admin, and a team that can handle the pace of expansion. The panel covers all four with real examples from Workbar and THRIVE.

How do coworking spaces scale from one location to many?

Scaling means repeatable operations. Operators standardize onboarding, billing, and member management so each new site runs the same way, then use software to keep reporting and billing consistent across the portfolio. Sarah and Chris walk through the specific changes they made to their operations and teams to support more members and more locations.

What software do coworking spaces use to grow?

Operators use coworking management software to automate member onboarding, billing, bookings, and reporting across locations. OfficeRnD Flex handles these tasks in one system, so operators can run multiple sites without adding proportional admin work.

Where can I watch the webinar?

The full recording is available on the webinar page, and you can read the key takeaways in the webinar recap.