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Imagine a Place

Maria VanDeman

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led design and workplace podcast featuring interior designers, workplace strategists, researchers, authors, and leaders from major companies and design firms. Credible pitches include senior practitioners in workplace, healthcare, neuroinclusive, and human-centered design, as well as recognized workplace researchers and authors; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 223

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 834 subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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carolina@ofs.com

sales@bryanashley.com

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Host

Maria VanDeman - Host of Imagine a Place, leading conversations with design and workplace leaders about how environments shape human experience.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Senior interior designers, workplace strategists, healthcare design professionals, researchers, authors, speakers, and leaders from established design firms or major organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Senior leadership or specialist roles at established design firms and major companies, Published books or recognized research, TEDx speaking or other established thought-leadership platforms

Recent Guest Discussions

Francis Aquino - Workplace Budgets, Employee Expectations, And Creating Valuable Reasons To Return To The Workplace

Chirag Kadiwar - Workplace Choice, Focus, Collaboration, And Employee Experience

Raymond Chan - Workplace Choice, Focus, Collaboration, And Employee Experience

Sharad Aggarwal - Artificial Intelligence, Workplace Transformation, And The Continuing Importance Of Human Skills

Jenn LaBelle - Workplace Strategy, Piloting, And Adapting Environments To Changing Organizational Needs

Recent Topics

Interior Design, Workplace Design, Healthcare Design, Neurodiversity, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Imagine a Place
:

WorkX San Francisco: Inside the minds of workplace experience leaders

September 01, 2026

What happens when workplace leaders from Meta, Google, Etsy, NVIDIA, WSP, Fresenius Medical Care and Acuity Brands, plus a workplace veteran whose career spans Alo, Netflix, Uber and Headspace, get in a room? You quickly realize they are wrestling with the same question: how do we make the workplace worth the commute for people and worth the investment for the business? Fresh from WorkX San Francisco, we unpack the ideas that stuck with us. Francis Aquino on shrinking budgets and growing expe...

Mothers of Design: Designing careers, raising families, and finding balance

August 24, 2026

What does it really look like to build a meaningful career in design while raising a family? In this special Imagine a Place episode, Maria VanDeman takes us inside Mothers of Design: Calling in the Double Shift, a live conversation in Knoxville, Tennessee, exploring the intersection of motherhood, design, leadership, and life. Following the panel, Maria sat down with designers and leaders for candid mini conversations about what motherhood has taught them about empathy, presence, boundaries,...

In the Room | Designing with purpose: Nicole Ward on the future of healthcare spaces

August 10, 2026

What if great healthcare design isn't just about beautiful spaces but about helping people heal, caregivers thrive, and every second count? In this episode, Nicole Ward, Senior Associate and Interior Designer at NBBJ, shares how purpose has shaped her career in healthcare design. Nicole offers an inside look at the complexity, and humanity, behind designing spaces where lives are changed every day. It's a thoughtful conversation about innovation, empathy, and why the best design solutions beg...

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