Taryn Speakman

Experienced and innovative real-estate and facilities processional managing large-scale portfolios specializing in workspace strategies, real-estate optimization resulting in increased ROI, and continued operational excellence. Proven success in achieving sustainable results, increasing ROI, reducing risk, improving workplace experience, and employee retention. Expertise includes improving our places of work through collaboration with executive leadership teams, business leaders, and teammates, driving positive culture change that achieves sustainable results. Applications of skills include complex real-estate portfolios and organizational objectives that include centralization initiatives, growth objectives, quality and consistency improvement goals, organizational and department development, culture change ideation, and improving teammate experience. In-depth experience with process creation and improvement, succession planning, and strategic road mapping. Expert in staff and department development, aligning strategies with company culture, and growing organization agility through consistent partnership with internal stakeholders, aligning business initiatives with long-term strategies and short-term business needs.

• Lead national facilities portfolio administration, space planning, and workforce modeling, ensuring safe, healthy, and equitable workplaces.
• Executed Return to Office plan partnered with cross-functional leadership.
• Aligned with key business leaders to improve processes and procedures, increasing supply chain efficiencies and reducing overall G&A spending by $20M.
• Increased workspace enjoyment and teammate experience through innovative space design and workplace services.
• Managed $50M in construction projects to expand office space by350,000 SF, resulting in a total of750,000 SF to accommodate company centralization and growth efforts.
• Oversaw real estate strategy, personnel relocation, and cross-functional onboarding initiatives.
• Created and led our ‘Office of the Future’ renovation initiative, successfully increasing employee health, retention, and satisfaction.
• Maintained financial focus, including annual goal setting and budgets, monthly forecasts and metric communication, vendor management, and equipment and furniture inventory.
• Partnered with Human Resources and Executive Leadership to develop our On-Boarding, Training, Retention, and Off-Boarding Processes and our Merchandise and Employee Satisfaction programs.