514 – Creating Extraordinary Places with Kevin Kelley
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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How do we create extraordinary places for our customers, clients, patients, staff that support the growth of our small business?
Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/514-kevin-kelley-extraordinary-places/
Kevin Kelley is with us today to share his thoughts and insights on how to create extraordinary places that help us connect with people.
The questions he will help us answer include: Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings? Or will the "Replacement Economy" led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues?
What about museums, universities, and performing arts venues? Is there still a place for these thousand-year-old institutions in our lives? Or are we holding onto them out of habit, guilt, or nostalgia?
Kevin Ervin Kelley, AIA, is an award-winning architect, experience designer, and co-founder of the bi-coastal strategic design firm Shook Kelley.
As a lifelong advocate of bringing people together in prosocial settings, Kevin's expertise is in studying how the environment of a place affects our behavior, perception, and decision-making. Since starting the strategic design firm in 1992, he has worked with executive leadership teams for some of the world's most well-known brands, such as Harley-Davidson, Whole Foods, Kraft, JM Smucker, The Cleveland Orchestra, professional sports teams, universities, urban districts, and hundreds of local and regional businesses to stay relevant and profitable in our rapidly changing modern landscape.
In addition to being a frequent speaker at retail, food, and other consumer conferences in the U.S. and abroad, Kevin taught courses at Harvard University and his alma mater, the University of N.C. at Charlotte.
As technological replacements increasingly decimate the physical world and human interaction, Kevin gives away everything he's learned in the field and the boardroom in his debut book, "Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together".
Henry Lopez is the host of The How of Business podcast – helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs. Find the best podcast, small business coaching, resources and trusted service partners for small business owners and entrepreneurs at our website https://TheHowOfBusiness.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.4 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:15.9 | This is Henry Lopez. Welcome to this episode of The How With Business. |
| 0:19.7 | And my special guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin, welcome to the show. Thank you, Dr. Lopez. Welcome to this episode of the How With Business. And my special guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin, welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.2 | Thank you. I'm looking forward to this conversation as a topic I find extremely interesting. But Kevin is with us today to share his thoughts and insights on how to create extraordinary places that help us connect with people. So the question that he's going to help |
| 0:40.1 | us answer or the questions include, do we still need physical places like a grocery store or |
| 0:47.0 | restaurant or office buildings for that matter? Or as he refers to it and others, the replacement |
| 0:53.6 | economy, well, the replacement economy, will the replacement economy led |
| 0:56.7 | by tech titans and retail giants wipe out these traditional physical spaces? And what about |
| 1:03.6 | museums and universities and performing art venues? Is there still a place for these |
| 1:09.2 | thousand-year-old institutions in our lives and in our businesses? |
| 1:13.7 | Or are we holding out to them out of habit or guilt or nostalgia? |
| 1:18.2 | So how do we as small business owners in particular, create extraordinary places for our customers, our clients, our patients, our staff, and that all of that supports, |
| 1:30.0 | or how does it support the ongoing growth of our small business? So that's what we're going |
| 1:34.8 | to dive into today with Kevin Kelly. To get more information about the How of Business, |
| 1:39.9 | including the Show Notes page of this episode, and to learn more about my one-on-one and group coaching programs, |
| 1:46.5 | please visit the howabusiness.com. |
| 1:49.0 | I also encourage you to please subscribe wherever you're listening to this episode, |
| 1:52.2 | so you don't miss any future episodes. |
| 1:55.0 | So let me tell you a bit more about Kevin. |
| 1:56.6 | Kevin Irvin Kelly is an award-winning architect, |
| 2:00.5 | experienced designer, and co-founder of the |
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