Domino Risch
Director – Workplace Strategy
Domino is Director of Workplace Strategy at Unwork, passionate about collaborating with organisations on complex, multidisciplinary projects that involve strategic thinking, design, commercial real estate, and organisational change. Her purpose is to help her clients make the experience of modern hybrid work (and their workplaces) more human.
With a degree in Environmental Design from the University of Canberra and over two decades of experience, she excels at leveraging research, data, and engaging stakeholders to shape effective strategies, simplify complexity, and lead diverse teams through workplace design projects with a change agenda. She has successfully collaborated with many major Australian and global organizations, including NAB, Macquarie Bank, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, AMP, Baker McKenzie, Herbert Smith Freehills, Minter Ellison, Allens Linklaters, A&O Sherman, Stockland, Brookfield, Santos, RAAF and the University of Newcastle.
Previously, she was Director of Workplace at BVN and a Principal, Commercial & Workplace Sector Leader, and Design Strategy Leader at Hassell. Parent of an autistic daughter, she brings a strong personal commitment to designing for neurodiversity and wellbeing, and champions authentic, flexible, and engaging workplaces that meet the challenges of modern work and enhance the employee experience.
Q&A
Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us, or share three things that most people don’t know about you.
My mum was working as an Usherette in a Melbourne cinema when she was inspired to name her first daughter after the Bond girl, Domino Vitali (acted by Claudine Auger) in 1965’s Thunderball with Sean Connery.
How would you describe UnWork in three words?
Global reach, intelligent, strategic.
What is your favourite building?
The Sydney Opera House