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More Than 150 People Celebrate Grand Opening Of Lake Forest's Trend-Setting LifeWorking Coworking's Collaborative Office Space

LAKE FOREST - LifeWorking Coworking's trend-setting, collaborative office space for startups, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and corporate telecommuters officially has opened with a series of weeklong grand opening events. More than 150 people attended the ribbon cutting ceremony at LifeWorking Coworking, 717 Forest Avenue, 2nd floor, Lake Forest.

The occasion showcased the 8,000-square-foot space, members enjoyed a Get To Know Us lunch October 4, and on October 6, the Lake Forest High School Business Accelerator, Lake Forest College Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Lake Forest Business Accelerator highlighted both their programs and students/businesses.

LifeWorking Coworking is an office environment that encourages its members to achieve their work goals and find more time for something as important - enjoying their personal lives.

Ribbon cutting participants included Lake Forest Mayor Donald P. Schoenheider, Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce executive director, Joanna Rolek, and other dignitaries. The event was catered by Sunset Foods.

"Working and enjoying life…this is a movement," said Steve Whittington, corporate "lifer" turned entrepreneur and founder and CEO of his first LifeWorking Coworking space now open in picturesque downtown Lake Forest. "Our focus is on business as well as what makes our lives complete outside of work, how important it is to make the time to focus on family and the other things we love to do to personally feel fulfilled," he said.

LifeWorking Coworking, nestled within the historic, renowned city of Lake Forest with its highly-regarded mix of dining, night life, social events, and shopping, offers both dedicated and "flex" membership options. This includes premium individual work space; collaboration spaces, conference rooms; access to café, kitchen, and bench seating; virtual office; Wi-Fi access; mail service; phone number/voice services; dedicated office, 24/7; and complimentary access to networking events, lunch and learns, and special and private events, each depending on which membership package is chosen.

"We have a professional, secure environment with natural lighting in an open air setting," said Whittington. "Our members can receive packages, have their cleaning picked up and delivered, eat in our café or have food delivered from a wide variety of excellent Lake Forest restaurants. When all is said and done, after a successful work day, our members are ready to live their personal lives to the fullest."

Promoting a work-life balance, LifeWorking Coworking's members - the space can accommodate 200 - relish the convenience as well as LifeWorking Coworking's collaborative and networking advantages.

Corporations arranging for their employees to use the space have statistics to back up their decision. Workers are much more productive when their work and personal lives are balanced…not having to take a train or drive long distances to work leaves more time for family and to pursue other outside interests these workers enjoy; thus, a better balance is struck. Additionally, companies save money by not having to lease space and avoid other overhead.

"LifeWorking Coworking not only provides an incredibly creative, flexible, and cost-effective workspace for our team," said Corbett Lamb, Founder and CEO of Inneraction Communications, "but it provides a collaborative and engaging environment that inspires us to action, and encourages the active extension of our network. We are humbled and excited to be a part of LifeWorking Coworking's Lake Forest launch, and look forward to being a part of their growth and success."

LifeWorking Coworking has created a lifestyle co-working experience through a network of productivity and collaboration centers in the Chicago suburbs and Chicago proper focused on work-life balance, productivity and collaboration. Its value proposition to its corporate customer is to provide a competitive advantage in recruiting top talent, increasing employee engagement, and providing another tool in the facility/space management toolbox.

"Our members get their work done in a unique collaborative atmosphere, meet and share ideas with other business people, and network with a diverse group of entrepreneurs and business owners," said Whittington. "Many sole proprietors who work from home miss out on the interaction that comes with meeting others to share ideas. And we will help business people successfully pivot between work and their personal lives.

"Our promise to our members is to be a community within your community -- enabling the best, most productive marginal minute whether job working, networking, or LifeWorking," he said.

LifeWorking Coworking is host to The Lake Forest Business Accelerator created to expand economic development for the city of Lake Forest. And beginning in January, LifeWorking Coworking will be the home of the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce's B4Work networking meetings on the second and fourth Fridays.

Whittington is a former Procter & Gamble employee who spent 20 years crafting a successful career at corporate headquarters in Cincinnati, and countless days and nights away from his family in Europe and Central and South America.

For more information about LifeWorking Coworking, please visit www.mylifeworking.com, @LifeWorkingEnt, or contact Steve Whittington, (847) 457-2662, steven.whittington@mylifeworking.com.

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