Since 2008

We help real estate owners and coworking operators build smarter flexible workspace businesses.

We help owners and operators make flexible workspace decisions with senior advisory judgment, rigorous financial modeling, and AI-native project delivery. Underutilized space becomes more valuable, more adaptable, and easier to operate.

2008
Working in coworking since
5+
Global regions served
End‑to‑End
Strategy through operations
Our Story

The Short Version

Coworking has changed.

What began as a grassroots movement has become a real estate operating model. Today, flexible workspace is no longer just about desks, memberships, or community. It is about revenue, experience, service, data, hospitality, and asset performance.

That evolution is where we work.

We help owners and operators move from vague opportunity to clear strategy, from static square footage to active business model, and from disconnected decisions to an operating system that can actually be launched, managed, and improved.

We are not here to sell a generic coworking concept. The right model depends on the asset, and our job is to help you find it.

Our Delivery Model

How We Work

David Walker David Walker David Walker Founder & Principal Strategist In coworking since 2008. Operator and founder turned advisor, now delivering through the Flex Intelligence Portal. Connect on LinkedIn has been in coworking since 2008, and the firm has evolved with the industry. What began as traditional advisory is now delivered as a living intelligence system.

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The Evolution

Decks, memos, and static reports gave way to a living delivery model, built for how decisions actually get made across owners, operators, and advisors.

02

The Flex Intelligence Portal

Every engagement runs through a private portal: the Flex Space Pro Forma, market intelligence, launch plans, and operating dashboards in one place, custom-built for your situation.

03

Memory and Judgment

A private project memory captures every conversation and decision. AI handles research and synthesis. A senior advisor reviews the work and owns the judgment.

The result is practical financial clarity, delivered faster, in a decision environment you can actually launch, manage, and improve.

What We Do

What We Help Clients Do

Practical solutions for complex real estate challenges.

01

Evaluate the Opportunity

We help owners, developers, and operators understand whether a flexible workspace model makes sense for a specific asset, market, audience, and financial goal.

02

Design the Business

We translate the opportunity into a practical operating model, including space mix, pricing, membership structure, staffing, technology, customer experience, and launch sequence.

03

Improve Performance

We help existing operators strengthen revenue, simplify operations, improve sales systems, reduce friction, and create a more stable business.

04

Build Smarter Systems

We help clients use dashboards, documentation, GPT-enabled workflows, and AI-powered tools to make the business easier to understand, manage, and scale.

What We Believe

Our Point of View

Flexible workspace is not a trend. It is an operating layer for modern real estate.

The office is no longer just a leased container. It is becoming a more service-rich, technology-enabled, hospitality-aware environment.

The winners will not simply add coworking furniture to vacant space. They will build flexible operating ecosystems with the right mix of private offices, shared amenities, meeting rooms, access systems, services, sales processes, and financial discipline.

That requires more than inspiration. It requires a model.

David Walker
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Founder

David Walker

David Walker has worked in coworking and flexible workspace since 2008, first as an operator and founder, then as an advisor to owners, developers, and workspace groups across the U.S. and international markets.

He co-founded one of the early coworking spaces in Austin, Texas, before coworking became a mainstream real estate category, and grew it to three locations. That gave him firsthand operator insight into creating demand, selling memberships, managing private offices, and running the business day to day. He later helped launch one of the first global coworking consultancies, advising developers, investors, and real estate groups across the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

His work sits at the intersection of real estate strategy, operating models, financial planning, and AI-native delivery. He helps clients move from scattered assumptions and disconnected decisions into clear models, practical plans, and a private Flex Intelligence Portal that makes the work easier to understand, manage, and act on.

His perspective is grounded in firsthand operating experience and years of advisory work, and in a practical belief that flexible workspace strategy only works when the numbers, the customer experience, the team, and the systems all fit together.

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The People

The Consulting Team

CoworkingConsulting.com brings together a senior team of specialists across strategy, operations, growth, asset advisory, architecture, and design. The team is assembled around each engagement, with the Flex Intelligence Portal as the organizing layer that keeps every contributor working from the same source of truth.

David Walker

David Walker

Founder & Principal Strategist

Strategy, financial modeling, operating model design, technology direction, and overall engagement leadership.

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Charlotte Kirby

Charlotte Kirby

Senior Consultant, Operations

Member experience, community systems, staffing, workflows, hospitality, and practical operator planning.

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Rocco Rinaldi

Dr. Rocco Rinaldi

Senior Consultant, Growth & Scale

Franchise development, expansion strategy, organizational structure, and scalable operating models.

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Michael Abrams

Michael Abrams

Senior Consultant, Asset Advisory

Asset strategy, ownership alignment, portfolio thinking, landlord objectives, and long-term value creation.

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Matias Lloveras

Matias Lloveras

Senior Consultant, Architecture

Space planning, functional design, operational flow, and alignment between the floor plan and the business model.

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Maria Mahmoud

Maria Mahmoud

Senior Consultant, Design & UX

Interior strategy, user experience, hospitality design, brand expression, and the human layer of the physical environment.

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Track Record

Representative Experience

Our work spans a wide range of coworking, flex office, and real estate innovation projects.

  • ✔ Coworking and flexible workspace strategy across North America, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
  • ✔ Flex Space Pro Forma development and financial modeling for asset owners, developers, franchise groups, and operators.
  • ✔ Launch planning for coworking, flex suites, office-forward memberships, and amenity workspace models.
  • ✔ Operating systems, playbooks, pricing frameworks, and technology strategy for flexible workspace businesses.
  • ✔ Advisory work across office, mixed-use, multifamily, franchise, and owner-operated flex models.
  • ✔ AI-enabled tools, dashboards, and decision-support systems for coworking and commercial real estate teams.
Who We Serve

Who We Work With

Asset Owners & Managers

Owners evaluating how underutilized space can become a more active, revenue-producing asset.

Developers & CRE Groups

Teams exploring coworking, flex office, spec suites, amenity workspace, or mixed-use workspace strategies.

Coworking Operators

Operators who want stronger systems, better revenue performance, clearer operations, and a more scalable business.

Franchise & Platform Groups

Groups that need consistent models, decision tools, operating frameworks, and market-specific financial clarity.

Mixed-Use & Multifamily Owners

Owners integrating flexible workspace into larger environments where work, hospitality, residential, and community uses overlap.

Thinking about a flexible workspace strategy?

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