Workshape: Helping Teams Get The Most Out of Getting Together

We’re here to help you get the most out of getting together.

No matter where you stand on your path, our team is ready to help. We act as your partner in constructing strategies for the processes and locations where operations take place.

Workshape Core Team, Brett Hautop, Sandi Lam, and Omar Ramirez

We’re strategists, advisors, experience designers, and operators. We’ve worked internally so we know the daily challenges you’re facing.

Our wider experience as consultants and our work with our Labs also allows us to have a broad view of the landscape of work that helps us to craft better solutions to problems for our clients.

Meet the team

Brett Hautop

Founding Partner

Brett created Workshape to feed a lifelong passion to use design to help people get more value out of the work they do. He feeds his unlimited curiosity and need to be making things by escaping to his shop and cutting up things to put them back together to make better things.

Sandi Lam Harder

Head of Labs

Sandi leads Workshape Labs, where she gets to bring together her creativity, curiosity, and passion for people and the places that bring out the best in them. She pinches herself daily that she gets to help bridge the gap between human-centered research and practice. She shares her home workspace with two mischievous corgis, ensuring life stays just a little chaotic.

Omar Ramirez

Head of Strategy and Operations

Omar leads strategy and operations at Workshape, connecting the dots and ensuring that our internal ways of working reflect the same excellence that we help teams achieve. He shares his passion for design, art, and food with his incredible family.

Tonya

Fractional Workplace LEader

Tonya is an empathetic Real Estate and Workplace strategist dedicated to improving people, space and systems through thoughtful design and innovation. With a versatile skill set, she thrives as a "Swiss Army Knife" of workplace design, real estate, technology and employee experience.

Nikki Xia

Brand and Design

Nikki leads Brand at Workshape, combining her creativity and multidisciplinary expertise to craft visually compelling and meaningful experiences. She’s obsessed with good design and beautiful packaging. Currently based in Los Angeles, she lives with her two lively Miniature Schnauzer.

Nikki leads Brand at Workshape, drawing on her creativity, multidisciplinary expertise, and background in interior architecture to design visually compelling and meaningful experiences. Based in Los Angeles, she shares her home with her two lively Miniature Schnauzers.

Michelle Samura

Advisor Workshape Labs

Michelle is Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Santiago Canyon College. Her research interests center on the relationship among space, belonging, and community. Michelle studies key design principles and elements of built environments that promote belonging in education, workplace, healthcare, hospitality, and community settings.

Gregg Muragishi

Advisor Workshape Labs

Gregg is a consultant at illuceo inc and a senior researcher at the University of Washington. Gregg is passionate about using rigorous research methods to inform data-driven strategies to create spaces and opportunities for people to be successful, grow, and belong at work.

B Sanborn

Advisor Workshape Labs

B leads design research at DLR Group, where they explore how spaces shape our minds, bodies, and work. With a background spanning anthropology to organizational behavior, B is passionate about bridging disciplines to create environments that truly support people. They’re active in communities like EDRA, the APA, and Workshape Labs—always chasing better ways to connect research and real life.