CXO Leading Change @ Work brings together senior Chief Real Estate and Workplace leaders who are shaping the future of work, workplace and real estate.
Independent, confidential and vendor-free, the community gives members a trusted space to share experience, test ideas and support one another across sectors, geographies and organisational contexts.
• Independent and vendor-free
• Guided by the Chatham House Rule
• European and North American chapters
• 2,500+ offices represented globally across 11 sectors
Why CXO exists
The world of work continues to change at pace. Senior workplace and real estate leaders are being asked to make complex decisions about people, place, culture, technology, cost, sustainability and organisational change — often in conditions of uncertainty.
CXO exists to give those leaders a trusted, confidential space to learn from one another. It is a place for honest peer exchange, practical intelligence and thoughtful challenge — away from sales agendas, conference platforms and corporate noise.
What members gain
• Confidential weekly conversations with senior peers facing similar strategic challenges.
• Monthly international calls connecting European and North American chapters.
• Guest speaker sessions bringing fresh thinking from inside and outside the workplace world.
• Cross-sector intelligence from members working across financial services, legal, life sciences, technology, professional services and other sectors.
• Practical peer support for leaders navigating change, uncertainty and opportunity.
• A trusted sounding board for testing ideas before taking them back into the organisation.
What makes CXO different:
Independent and trusted
CXO Leading Change @ Work is independent of service providers, allowing members to speak openly and without agenda. Guided by the Chatham House Rule, conversations are candid, practical and rooted in shared professional experience.
Senior peer expertise
Members bring senior-level insight from some of the world’s leading organisations. The breadth of sectors, geographies and workplace challenges represented within the community creates a depth of collective knowledge that is difficult to find elsewhere.
Human-centred and supportive
CXO is not a sales platform or a conference audience. It is a trusted peer community where members support one another through change, uncertainty and opportunity — combining professional experience with generosity, curiosity and care.
The community in numbers
• Nearly seven years of trusted peer conversations
• 2,500+ offices represented globally
• 11 industry sectors across the membership
• European and North American chapters
• 15+ hours of peer-to-peer networking and business intelligence sharing every three months
Member voices
“A good touch point to understand how others are approaching similar challenges.”
“A valuable forum for developing the strategic importance of workplace.”
“A trusted space to exchange ideas openly with senior peers.”
Our story
The community began in November 2019, following a request from members of a long-established private legal network. They wanted a trusted way to connect senior CRE and Workplace leaders across different industry sectors — to share experience, test ideas and learn from one another in confidence.
What started as a small cross-sector conversation quickly became a regular and valued forum. During lockdown, when uncertainty around work and workplace was at its height, our European and North American chapters continued to meet virtually every Thursday. Those conversations offered practical insight, peer support and a confidential space for leaders facing many of the same challenges in different organisational contexts.
Nearly seven years on, CXO Leading Change @ Work has grown into an independent international community of senior CRE and Workplace professionals with a distinctive culture of trust, generosity and shared purpose.
Who it is for
CXO is for senior corporate real estate, workplace and change leaders working inside organisations. Members are typically responsible for shaping workplace strategy, leading transformation, supporting hybrid work, improving employee experience and helping their organisations make better decisions about the future of work.
Join the conversation
Membership is by invitation, but prospective members are welcome to join a European or North American chapter call as a guest. The best way to understand CXO is to experience the quality of the conversation first-hand.
If you are a senior CRE, Workplace or change leader looking for an independent, confidential peer community, we would be pleased to hear from you. Complete the contact form below to start your conversation.
