The Vision House is one of the most valuable tools in Workspace Made Easy.
If you’re planning any kind of workspace transformation - whether it’s a new HQ, a retrofit, or simply trying to make hybrid work more intentional - you need a compelling vision to guide you.
Not a paragraph of corporate fluff.
Not a technical spec.
A true north.
It helps teams define what they really want their workspace to enable - and why it matters. It sits at the heart of many projects I’ve worked on over the years, and I’m now sharing an enhanced version of it, free to download and use.
Why I’m sharing this
Following the launch of Workspace Made Easy last year, I’m opening up a selection of tools I’ve used with clients across sectors and scales - from fast-growing creative teams to large, distributed organisations. These are practical, proven resources to help anyone lead a workspace project with more clarity and confidence.
What’s inside
At first glance, the Vision House may look like a simple worksheet. But it contains layered thinking and built-in structure.
This version introduces three essential lenses to shape your objectives:
- Organisation – What’s the business goal?
- People – What behaviours and culture do we want to support?
- Space – What should the environment enable?
These lenses help surface diverse priorities from across the organisation - giving voice to different perspectives, and creating the conditions for shared direction to emerge. It’s a way of listening, aligning, and building forward momentum in a format that’s simple but not simplistic.
Each objective can then be linked to what it means in practice and how success might be measured. That blend of vision, clarity and accountability is what turns strategy into meaningful design.
How to use it
Begin by framing the workplace vision in a way that invites collaboration, and use a sentence template that starts with:
"How might we…"
or
"Together, let’s…"
These formats set up a problem-solving mindset, sparking energy and ownership - which anchors the work around shared intent, rather than prescriptive goals.
Then build out the three to five objectives that matter most right now. Use the three lenses to explore each one: what it means for the organisation, what it means for people, and how it translates into the space.
From there, define success measures that are simple, relevant and motivating. You can return to the Vision House throughout your project - it’s not just a starting point. It can guide decisions, hold priorities steady, and remind everyone what you set out to achieve.
Download the editable Vision House tool here:
