CEO Chat with Bryce Stuckenschneider of Loftwall 

The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

Ready to rethink how the workplace actually works? 

We’re joined by Bryce Stuckenschneider, CEO of Loftwall, to trace a bold path from simple partitions to a privacy-first portfolio and a new wave of freestanding architecture that gives teams the flexibility they need. Bryce shares how they built a reputation on speed and human support—then expanded into acoustics, wall coverings, baffles, and sound masking to deliver focus, not just furniture.

We dig into global design shows like Orgatec and Clerkenwell as a practical “crystal ball” for materials, forms, and procurement models, and how bringing more team members to these events fuels better ideas back home. 

Bryce gets candid about leading through tariffs, mergers, and return-to-office uncertainty: cut the shiny objects, know what you’re great at, and set a high bar for what you’re willing to tolerate. Legacy becomes a daily filter for decisions—financial, cultural, and personal.

AI comes in as a force multiplier rather than a replacement. Bryce details how training AI on brand voice, values, and personas helped compress years of product launch learning into days, all while keeping customers in human hands. We compare AI-first and AI-forward approaches, talk governance and experimentation, and share practical resources for leaders who want more than a smarter search bar.

We also unveil Design Stage—think Netflix meets MasterClass for architects and designers. It’s studio-quality, on-demand CEUs designed to fix the broken lunch-and-learn: consistent storytelling for brands, flexible learning for practitioners, and content you’ll actually want to finish. 

If you care about workplace privacy, flexible architecture, acoustic performance, and real-world AI use cases, this conversation will sharpen your playbook.

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