Changing Tomorrow is the podcast for real estate developers, architects, workplace strategists, and corporate leaders whose decisions shape the built environment.
Each season tackles a critical, unresolved challenge at the intersection of sustainable design, commercial real estate, corporate strategy, and human performance. We look closely at the friction points where ESG goals and business objectives collide faster than the industry can agree on a path forward.
Through candid conversations with global practitioners, researchers, and cross-industry leaders, we test a fundamental question: can buildings, interior spaces, and organizations be intentionally designed to measurably improve human health, equity, and well-being?
Changing Tomorrow is powered by Liveable, an independent research and advisory organization setting a clearer standard for social value in the built environment. We work with real estate, workplace, and built environment leaders to understand how buildings, products, policies, and business strategies shape people’s lives. Through research, reporting, and strategic advisory, Liveable helps organizations assess human impact, communicate it clearly, and use it to make better decisions.
Archita Mandal is an award-winning writer, director, and producer turned tech founder, and the CEO of UpendNow. UpendNow is shaking up content creation with AI that takes you from a raw idea to a production-ready blueprint for videos, ads, and films up to 20 minutes long - faster, cheaper, and without losing the human spark.
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Janet Pogue McLaurin is a Principal at Gensler and the Global Director of Workplace Research, where she helps organizations understand how the places they design shape the way people work, connect, and thrive. For more than four decades, she's worked at the intersection of strategy, design, and data, leading Gensler's Global Workplace Surveys and the Workplace Performance Index to translate human experience into actionable insight. What matters most to Janet is measuring the impact of design to create a workplace that works better for people and the businesses they support.
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Zainab Garba-Sani is a Stanford-affiliated Research Scholar and UK Commonwealth Fund Senior Harkness Fellow, working at the intersection of health policy, science, and community-centred practice. Her work focuses on how emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, genomics, and regenerative medicine can be translated responsibly into real-world health impact - particularly for underserved populations and people living with chronic and rare conditions.
Her research and practice are grounded in bridging cutting-edge science and innovation with lived experience - focusing on inclusive design, governance, and real-world implementation. She is the founder of ACCESS AI, an initiative advancing equitable and inclusive approaches to health AI through diverse community engagement, meaningful co-production, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through this work, she contributes to broader conversations on AI governance, data equity, and the societal implications of innovation.