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Culture & Collaborative
Modes
Idea Starters
Haworth uses the Competing Values Framework to define four culture types; connect, think, inform, and do. Backed by decades of research by the University of Michigan, it indicates behaviors in the workplace that people and teams find most important. These behaviors are identified as collaborative modes and they support different ways people work together and share information. From what you saw at the ALAMN Expo, the following collaborative modes resonated most with you.
What Stood Out to You.
Culture is the intersection of values, assumptions, and artifacts unique to an organization. An aligned culture unifies and motivates a workforce, represents the employee and customer experience, and reflects brand.
Lounge
Description
• Focus on collaboration
• Technology-free zone
• Emotionally rich space
• Residential feel that’s engaging and inviting
1. Bookcases create visual boundary.
2. Natural elements foster well-being.
3. Elevated design supports desired culture.
Products Shown: Bong Table | BuzziShade Pendant | BuzziMilk Stool | Cassina® 9 Table | Lud’o® Lounge Chair | Mangas Natural Rug | Mex-Hi Sofa
Mush Table | Nuvola® Rossa Bookcase | Pip™ Table | Torei Table
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Description
• Playful
• Free flowing
• Digital & analog
• Most emotionally rich space with a social focus
1. Access to vistas and natural light to combat mental fatigue and switch modes.
2. Variety of furniture offers choice to support longer meetings and posture changes.
3. Mobile furniture for flexibility to accommodate various size groups.
Products Shown: Bong Table | BuzziShade Pendant Light | BuzziSpot Pouf | Cabana Lounge™ | Compose® Echo Mobile Cart | Mangas Natural Rug | Openest® Chick™ Pouf | Pip™ Table | PopUp® Table | Tate™ Soft Stool
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Project Room
Description
• Formal
• Strategic
• Fully enclosed to discourage interruptions
1. Application supports scheduled, more formal meetings.
2. Marker boards for externalization and documentation
of ideas.
3. Dual screens for engaging with remote team members and staying on task.
Products Shown: Be_Hold® Storage | BuzziSpot Pouf | Compose® Echo Markerboard Rail System | Planes® Conference Table | Swell Pendant Light | Veda™ Task Chair
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Conference & Meeting
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If you are interested in learning more about Haworth's Culture and Collaborative Modes and how they may apply to your space, i'd love to continue the conversation.
Want to Know More?
Dan Herman | Fluid
Director of Business Relationships
dan.herman@fluidinteriors.com
(612) 746-8785
Don't hesitate to reach out. Click below to connect!
www.fluidinteriors.com

Creating Spaces That Attract
YOUR TEAM STRUCTURE
Live Design
An interactive, collaborative way to design your new space
We believe that creating a vision for your new environment should be exciting and engaging. We understand how to translate our client’s creative vision for their space into reality. Through internal discovery, visual listening, and mockups, we’re able to help business leaders communicate their vision and bring it to life before approval.
That's why we help you take your concept to reality through our guide, plan, execute, measure, and evolve process.
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Our Project Process
Guide
Plan
Design
Execute
Measure
Evolve
We have developed a strategic 6 step project process to ensure that you are provided with a successful experience from day 1 through project completion.
Warehouse Capabilities
Fluid currently operates 75,000 square feet of warehouse space. Our facility is organized in two distinct areas:
Cross Dock for active projects, and
Asset Management for customer storage.
Our space is designed for efficient product flow, equipped with high density racking, and secured through a monitored alarm system.
Our people are trained on cross-dock and asset management processes and technology platforms in order to effectively support and manage our customer's storage needs.
We offer our customers 30 days of free storage for any active projects. After 30 days, we offer a rate of $0.90 per square foot with associated hourly in and out fees for product storage.
Because no two companies are alike. And shouldn't be.
Relocation Services
Furniture Uninstalls & Reinstalls – Furniture Reconfigurations – Decommissions – Technology Disconnects & Reconnects
We provide comprehensive relocation services that can move any company to a new location with minimal disruption to day-to-day business operations.
When we coordinate a relocation project, every phase is carefully considered. Our service includes pre-move planning, coordination of resources, detailed relocation schedules, employee move meetings, on-site project management, and post-move follow-up activities.
We can integrate the installation of your new furniture and the reconfiguration or decommission of your existing furniture with your relocation project to provide a seamless, one-stop service experience.
Facility Resources
Warranty - Customer To Do - Move, Add, Change
When it comes to Facility Resources from simple service requests and warranties to complex Moves, Adds, and Changes, completing tasks quickly is our specialty. At Fluid, each service account is assigned their own Fluid Lead. Your Lead is accountable for all aspects of your service requests – a single point of contact for the daily needs that come up. Fluid provides your Leads with the technology to help uncomplicate your service needs. With this system in place, we are only one click away.
Asset Management
Fluid’s Asset Management Programs include the facilities, resources, and technology to manage and track your furniture.
We can help you reduce storage costs and maximize the utilization of your existing assets. We also create stocking programs so you can quickly satisfy your employee needs for ergonomic products such as height adjustable tables, task chairs, and monitor arms. All items are bar-coded and stored in climate controlled and secured facilities. Your product is always safe and protected. Our asset management team is trained and experienced in warehousing and storage and our web-based technology provides reporting capabilities and on-line access to your assets.
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With a dedicated team of trained service technicians, repair vehicles, and designated employees to handle your evolving environment, Fluid has the capability to keep your space looking – and performing – like new.
Fluid Service Offerings
Guide
Plan
Design
Execute
Measure
Evolve
Business Drivers
Project Vision
Relevant Project Exposure
Budget Development
Process Alignment
Team Alignment
Budget Management
Manufacturer Negotiations
Solidify Timeline
Establish Communication Channels
Attend Bi-Weekly Meetings
Provide Furniture and Electrical Outlet Locations
Best Practice Integration
Concept Visualization & Renderings
Furniture Mockup
Finalize Furniture Package
Export Furniture Typicals to Revit
Approvals
Order Management
Project Management
Deposit and Approval of Quotes
Site Visits
Tracking of Products
Delivery and White Glove Installation
Related Interior Services
Move Management
Product Disposition
Employee Engagement Surveys
Space Utilization Analysis
Post Occupancy Surveys
Fluid Level Experience
Furniture Care and Maintenance
Manufacturer Warranty Support
We are excited to continue our partnerhsip with your team. Below you will find a directory of additional service offerings that Fluid has to offer to help support your space.
Live Design
An interactive, collaborative way to design your new space
We believe that creating a vision for your new environment should be exciting and engaging. We understand how to translate our client’s creative vision for their space into reality. Through our live design process utilizing our CET platform, internal discovery, visual listening, and mockups, we’re able to help business leaders communicate their vision and bring it to life before approval.
That's why we help you take your concept to reality through our guide, plan, execute, measure, and evolve process.
Lean Installation
Faster Installation with
Lean Principles
Fluid Installation Services are based on the principles of lean installation. We receive, deliver, and install your new furniture in the most efficient and timely manner. Your furniture ships to our warehouse allowing us to control the product deliveries to site based on site readiness and overall phasing plans.
We leave packaging materials at our warehouse and pre-assemble and kit your product. This preparation guarantees a highly efficient delivery and installation process.
Fluid’s lean installation starts and ends with you, the customer, in mind delivering key benefits:
Reduces installation time by 20 – 30%
Minimizes the need for staging areas
Creates a clean and safe work environment
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Fluid AV Services
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Audio Visual Matters
The workspace is changing rapidly, and your space deserves a technology interface that can support those changes. With Fluid AV by Lelch, you can now seamlessly integrate your technology needs into the workspace.
Let us help you bring your AV needs to the Fluid Level. To start your custom design, please contact FluidAV@fluidinteriors.com
Why Lelch
Lelch Audio Visual is a custom audio video integrator serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. As a preferred Fluid partner, we have a shared stand on the values of exceptional customer service and communication. We will work with your team to design custom solutions that meet your wants and needs.
A simple partnership solving a complex challenge.
A shared philosophy of providing exceptional customer service.
Commercial Solutions
Not all commercial spaces are the same and we recognize that there isn’t a one size fits all for technology solutions in these spaces. Our expert system design team works with each project to identify wants and needs to create a modern and functional technology infused space.
The right AV solution for you.
Service Offerings
Video Conferencing
Sound Masking
Audio Video
Access Control
Surveilance
Structured Wiring
Additional Resources
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Microsoft Teams Vs. Zoom
AV Solutions for Business
• Systems, Architectural walls, free standing furniture, office settings, lounge areas, break rooms, café booths, kitchen settings, ADA requirements, ergonomic equipment, conference rooms, storage, high density filing, lockers, fire files, outdoor environments, lighting, sound masking
• New and used product arrangements
• Loading dishwasher, wiping surfaces, etc.
• tables, chairs, hanging banners, installation, rental, storage for seasonal events
About Fluid & Haworth
Service Offerings
Your Team Structure
Contact Us
• Installation
• AV solutions from partner Lelch AV
• Design support
• Relocation, reconfiguration and decommission of interiors
• Storage and management of inventory for application to future needs
• Review of current assets for decommissioning to cash back, recycle, donations to charity, recycle, convert to energy, or land fill
• Daily adjustments, warranty, and general maintenance of facility products
• Cleaning of office space
• Event support
• Racking, storage equipment on site, rigging, heavy equipment moving
• Moving AV and technology within location and between locations
• Carpet removal and installation
• Installing signage and wayfinding
• Two guys and a truck when you need them
• Reupholstery
• Wood repair/touch up
• Electrical work / low-voltage
• Shipping services
• Light construction work
Creating Spaces That Attract
MEET YOUR TEAM
Project References
Research Based Articles & Case Study
Kurita America
Taft Stettinius
& Hollister
Merchant & Gould
Haworth Walls
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Nilan Johnson Lewis
Kurita America Inc.
What was your experience like working with Fluid and Haworth?
What has exceeded your expectations since working with Fluid?
Is there any advice you would give to a potential customer of Fluid and Haworth?
Thys Coetzee
Director of Integration
Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLC
What made Fluid and Haworth stand out from other options?
What has exceeded your expectations since working with Fluid?
Why did you choose to work with Fluid and Haworth?
Justin Weinberg
Partner in Charge
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Testimonial
Testimonial
Nilan Johnson Lewis
Nilan Johnson went through an office refresh at their Downtown Minneapolis, location. A driving factor for this project was consolidating 2 floors into 1 to ensure team unity and culture.
The overall project scope included 69 private offices, 24 workstations, conference rooms, collaboration spaces, and a café dining area.
Location: Minneapolis
Square Footage: 36,519
Project Cost for Furniture: $1,100,000
Project Cost for Walls: $300,000
Employees: 95
Merchant & Gould moved from IDS Center into its new space in the Fifth Street Towers complex in downtown Minneapolis. The two-floor office offers views of the downtown Minneapolis skyline, but also an opportunity to reduce the firm’s environmental footprint, promote collaborative work and become more technologically advanced.
Additionally, offices have plenty of glass and windows that allow natural light to flow in. Instead of corner offices, Merchant & Gould's office has collaborative workspaces.
Workstations // Conference Rooms // Training Rooms // Café/Dining
Merchant & Gould
Haworth Enclose has the lowest base profile in the industry and refined details like butt-jointed glass, the design is clean and uncomplicated from top to bottom.
For future flexibility, Enclose system touches the building lightly, using mechanical fasteners only at the slab to save you time and money every time you install or move a wall.
Part of Haworth’s Integrated Palette™, Enclose walls are sustainably designed to anticipate change, and moveable panels offer endless adaptation.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HAWORTH ENCLOSE WALLS
Why Haworth Walls
1: SLIDING DOORS
Wood
Wood Glazed
Metal Glazed
Glass Slab
2: SWING DOORS
Wood
Wood Glazed
Metal Glazed
Glass Slab
3: GLASS PANELS
Full-Height
Full-Height with Transom
Multi-Segment
4: SOLID PANELS
Full-Height
Full-Height with Transom
Multi-Segment
6: GLASS CORNER
2-Way 90°
2-Way 135°-
3-Way 90°
5: COMBINATION PANELS
Solid to Glass
Glass to Solid Transom
Clerestory
What Will the Future of the Office Look Like?
A Look at the Legal Workplace of the Future
Warner Norcross + Judd
Case Study
How Law Firms are Successfully Adopting New Work Models
Researched Based Articles & Case Studies
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About Fluid & Haworth
Process & Services
Idea Starters
Meet Your Team
Contact Us
Creating Spaces That Attract
CONTACT US
Lacey Ahlbrecht
Project Designer
Lindsey Rain
Design Market Manager
katherine schmieg
project manager
christina devine
project coordinator
chrissie dimmer
senior project designer
Wanda Forbes
Account executive
Your experienced team works tirelessly to make sure project objectives and expectations are met throughout your project.
It’s our goal to make sure each project ends on time, on budget and exceeds your expectations. We’ll be there with you every step of the way. Because you deserve it.
Click on each team member to learn more.
Your Project Team
Based at Haworth HQ, Tom leads Haworth’s Project Management team focusing exclusively on large and complex projects. They will support your project from award to final punch; identifying and mitigating supply chain risk and managing communication across all departments to ensure your project is delivered on time.
Tom Schellie | Haworth
Customer Experience / Planning Director
As a Haworth Member, Lindsey is our liaison to provide Haworth’s world-class products at the best possible discounts for your project. Lindsey leverages 20+ years of design experience and industry savvy to thoughtfully curate spaces that enhance human connection and collaboration.
Lindsey Rain | Haworth
Design Market Manager
Berk has 25 years of commercial and architectural interiors experience and was formerly a regional vice president for Haworth. Berk and his team love creating the kind of space and culture where people prefer to be, which has results in Star Tribune Top Workplace accolades. While Berk is strategic in nature and sets the tone for Fluid’s vision, he’s also fully engaged in the daily operations of the business and continues to think differently about what it means to add increasing value to customers and other influencers.
Berk Claiborne | Fluid
President
Katherine has over 10 years of project management experience. As a Project Manager, she is responsible for planning major/complex installations and managing field crews, their performance, and accountability for customer satisfaction. Katherine uses her desire for details to help think through complex situations before they happen. She is an advocate for her customers and uses her whole-picture mentality to gather the facts and ask questions to set up a win-win situation.
Katherine Schmieg | Fluid
Project Manager
Christina enjoys looking at both the big picture as well as short-term needs. She is thorough in her work and anticipates the needs of our customers. As a Project Coordinator, her attention to detail and niche for problem solving allows our customers to experience a smooth project process.
Christina Devine | Fluid
Project Coordinator
As a precise and detail oriented person, Lacey loves utilizing these skills throughout her design process. She has a passion for space planning, especially reconfiguring existing spaces because it forces her to be extra creative while being sensitive to the needs and wants of the client.
Lacey Ahlbrecht | Fluid
Project Designer
Chrissie has over 13+ years of workplace design experience. Connecting with team members and problem solving with creative solutions to deliver a cohesive, functional, and inspiring design – is her passion. She loves working with a client from conception to completion and appreciates both the creative and technical aspects of workplace design.
Chrissie Dimmer | Fluid
Senior Project Designer
Wanda has over 16 years of experience within the commercial furniture industry. She enjoys collaborating in a team environment and allowing for shared experiences and thoughts to become a project solution. Wanda works in an efficient and effective matter and likes to find the solution that provides simplicity in the process, while still maintaining a creative and superb result.
Wanda Forbes | Fluid
Account Executive
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Your Support Structure
Your experienced team works tirelessly to make sure project objectives and expectations are met throughout your project.
It’s our goal to make sure each project ends on time, on budget and exceeds your expectations. We’ll be there with you every step of the way. Because you deserve it.
Project Team Support
Main Point of Contact
Account Executive
Fluid Interiors
Wanda Forbes
Allison Daniel
Services Manager
Fluid Interiors
Chrissie Dimmer
Senior Project Designer
Fluid Interiors
Lacey Albrecht
Project Designer
Fluid Interiors
Christina Devine
Project Coordinator
Fluid Interiors
Katherine Schmieg
Project Manager
Fluid Interiors
Service Team Support
Lainie Nechvatal
Service Coordinator
Fluid Interiors
Madeline Carlson
Service Coordinator
Fluid Interiors
Lee Dorholt
Relocation Account Exectuive
Fluid Interiors
Services Main Point of Contact
Deanna Lawver
Relocation Coordinator
Fluid Interiors
About Fluid & Haworth
Service Offerings
Your Team Structure
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