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Workplace Solutions Principal

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Workplace strategy

Danielle Ryan

San Francisco, California

Workplace strategist helping organizations connect people, space, operations, and real estate performance.

Advisor Snapshot

Focus

Focus

Workplace consulting, occupancy strategy, programming, utilization and future-of-work planning

Markets

Markets

San Francisco and fast-growth global workplace portfolios

Client Types

Client Types

Workplace operations leaders, high-growth companies and cross-functional real estate teams

Specialty

Specialty

Turning culture, operations, budget and utilization inputs into workplace strategy

Background

Background

Samsara, Cresa, CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, Marsh and project management roles

About

Danielle sits at the intersection of workplace experience, operations, and corporate real estate. At Resource, she leads workplace consulting strategy for organizations that want their offices to work harder for their people and their business.

Her background at Samsara gives her first-hand operating experience across budgeting, lease management, occupancy, workplace sustainability, project delivery, and the future of work. She is especially strong at translating stakeholder needs into structured recommendations that can survive real-world implementation.

How They Help

Builds workplace strategies grounded in employee experience, utilization, operations, and long-term business goals.

Guides clients through programming, space planning, occupancy analysis, and change management.

Aligns stakeholders across real estate, finance, people, facilities, IT, design, and leadership.

Turns complex inputs into data-backed recommendations that teams can act on.

Representative Work

Led workplace programs at Samsara across strategy, budget forecasting, sustainability, lease management and global operations.

Provided global occupancy planning and move strategy for Samsara's fast-growth real estate portfolio.

Served as an advisor at Cresa with embedded occupancy planning and move management at Twitter.

Created corporate occupier pursuit strategy and proposal materials at CBRE Global Workplace Solutions.

Perspective

What I am watching: office strategy is moving from square feet per person to trust, experience, adaptability and measurable performance.

Credentials

M.Litt., Romantic/Victorian Literature Studies — University of St Andrews.

BA, English — UCLA.

Senior workplace programs and global occupancy planning experience at Samsara.

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