Sari Lash penned a piece sharing what Meagan Slavin, COO of 25N Coworking, presented at the Global Workspace Association Conference during a panel on "Turning Challenges into Wins".

The first emphasized aligning with partners and team members who share fundamental values, noting that trust-based decisions enable faster execution and resilience during challenges. Slavin then advocates trusting gut instincts backed by experience, particularly for critical personnel decisions, and acting swiftly once deeper investigation confirms initial intuition. The third lesson focused on delegation through the "give away your Legos" principle, transferring responsibility for sales and people operations processes to her leadership team after proper training, creating capacity for her to focus on new location growth for the coworking operator.

Colleen Moselle, CEO of Coco, shared business takeaways from her time at this month’s Global Workspace Association conference.

The insights emphasized that brand identity stems from customer experience rather than visual identity, engagement drives loyalty through meaningful participation opportunities, and authentic storytelling with real people outperforms data-driven marketing alone. Additional themes included the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership, tracking metrics beyond occupancy such as utilization and retention, adopting collaborative rather than competitive strategies, and leveraging AI for automation while preserving human connection and creativity. (Philip Cohen from Workuity also gets a shout out)

The Global Workspace Association annual conference will award the winner of Coworks‘ 2025 Community Manager of the Year Award, but ahead of the prize giving Lauren Walker highlights the 3 semi-finalists and shares their stories.

They are: Audrey McKnight @ Venture X San Antonio Northwest, Brooke Dempster at HAYVN Coworking and Kathrin Louis at Carr Workplaces in Downtown LA.

Wildfires! Drunk members! Cancer fundraising! Oh and all their usual duties as well. They are the superheroes of this industry!

Gina Schreck will take the hot seat in an AMA (ask me anything) session with the GWA detailing her journey and complete pivot at the “tender age” of 55 to sell her 20 yr old business, and open The Village Workspace with her two daughters.

These sessions are usually just for Global Workspace Association members, but this session has been opened up for anyone to join.

Join us for Part 2 in a special three-part webinar series designed exclusively for Vast franchisees.

We are continuing the conversation around the value of plugging into the GWA with Richie Parsons, Venture X Franchisee, around the value of plugging into the GWA. Gain an understanding of how being part of the Global Workspace Association can impact your growth, expanded your network, and help you stay ahead in the coworking industry.

Whether you’re new to the industry or looking to take your franchise to the next level, this is a must-attend conversation about the value of community, connection, and professional development within the GWA network.