Mr Ben Hamley

Ben Hamley leads JLL's Point of View on the Future of Work in Asia Pacific and is responsible for creating an integrated strategic design framework that helps JLL’s clients, partners and people to change why, how and where they work around the world.  He works across JLL’s entire business operations in Asia Pacific to connect the dots between research, thought leadership, business model innovation and service design drawing on JLL's expertise in workplace design, consulting, asset management, integrated facilities management, project development and more to help create, shape and manage the future of work in partnership with JLL’s clients.

Ben has an eclectic background that spans the Entertainment, Education, Not for Profit, Culture, Technology and Professional Services industries and is perhaps best described as an Expert Generalist; specialising in not specialising.  Ben has built a career out of interdisciplinary multi-party collaborations, working on high profile international projects, including Cisco’s CHILL program, the development of the Asia Pacific Design Library, the re-design of MySpace, the World Science Festival in Brisbane and led the Queensland Museum to be one of the first Australian institutions to partner with Google for their ‘Arts & Culture’ platform. 

Ben’s background also includes working with higher education institutions, such as QUT in Brisbane, where he led the design and implementation of a new triple-faculty degree, the Bachelors of Entertainment Industries in the Creative Industries Faculty.

Prior to joining JLL, Ben was a Partner at Business Models Inc. (Australia / New Zealand), a global strategy design consultancy and the producers of the best-selling business and strategy design books, such as Business Model Generation and Design a Better Business.  Business Models Inc. was recently awarded Good Design Australia’s inaugural ‘Design Pioneer Award’ under Ben’s leadership.