Key Individuals and their Credentials:

As Research Director since 1994, Dr. Weidemann has developed BOSTI's qualitative and quantitative data-gathering methods, and has supervised data collection and interpretation. The resulting analyses lead directly to development of concepts which are incorporated, through collaborative work with designers, into facilities design and planning. She also collects data across a wide variety of projects and client situations to create and maintain a large experiential database (now containing data from 22,000 workers in many industries) for use in BOSTI Associates' research, as well as to provide information about "comparables" to clients.

Dr. Weidemann has taught research-based decision-making to Design and Planning students for 25 years, having spent most of her academic life as a Professor at the University of Illinois. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 articles, book chapters, and reports. In addition, six of her projects have received eight national awards or recognition for applied research.

JOHN F. OLSON
Mr. Olson is a multi-disciplined individual with extensive experience in facility management and corporate real estate. He has been a Senior Associate at BOSTI since 1995, and is currently Vice President. His role is multifaceted – he has been Project Manager for several large projects; he serves as a major analyst of work processes, behaviors and success factors for a range of functional job categories; he is a translator of these into design guidelines; and he performs benefit-cost analyses of proposed workplace solutions.

His academic credentials include a B.A. (Mathematics) and a B.S. (Industrial Engineering) from Syracuse University, an M.S. (Management Sciences) from SUNY Binghamton, and a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech.

Before beginning work with BOSTI, he was Corporate Real Estate Manager for IBM, where he managed IBM's worldwide design approval process. As an independent consultant, he has served major clients in the areas of standards development, facility management, and cost estimating and management. Mr. Olson is an active professional member of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and a Certified Facility Manager (CFM). He has delivered presentations on "Facility Asset Management" and "Space Measurement Methods and Approaches" at IFMA conferences.

ELLEN BRUCE KEABLE
Ellen Keable brings seventeen years of applied design-research experience to the planning and management of supportive work environments. In her 12 years with BOSTI, she has developed, implemented and evaluated New Officing concepts of "Hotelling" and "Radical Redesign" of the workplace, and has managed many major public and private-sector projects. She leads BOSTI's Field Research teams and qualitative data-gathering to probe and verify survey research findings, identify issues for further analysis, and craft change management strategies.

Ms. Keable is a frequent speaker on Alternative Officing, research, and facility design for organizations such as Neocon, IIDA, IFMA, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), and the Real Property Institute of Canada. An Architect and Social Scientist, she holds degrees in Urban Geography and Environment-Behavior Research. She is currently Chair of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), an international organization of which she been an active Professional Practice member for 18 years.