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These remote work speakers can cover such topics and trends as hybrid work, future of work, employee engagement, building virtual teams, remote work tools, employee retention, workplace culture, workplace wellness, working with freelancers, productivity, collaboration, performance management, work-life balance, efficiency and engagement, social isolation, working across different time zones, distractions, time-management, and more.
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Kaleem Clarkson
Kaleem is a remote work keynote speaker and people operations specialist. As Chief Operating Officer, Kaleem ensures that all of Blend, Me’s services and activities are with the CEO’s strategic strategy and vision.
He assists leadership in implementing people operations solutions that boost efficiency and engagement for internal and external stakeholders, with almost 20 years of strategic operations and event planning expertise.
He is passionate about work-life balance and making the most of the remote employee experience.
Tsedal Neeley
Tsedal Neeley is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research Strategy.
Her work as a speaker on remote work focuses on how CEOs may expand their organizations by formulating and delivering global and digital strategies.
She got selected as one of Business Insider’s “100 People Changing the World” for creating, sparking trends, and solving global concerns.
She advises the senior executives on virtual work and large-scale transformation regularly.
Chris Dyer
Audiences love Chris Dyer for his honest, direct approach and thought-provoking insights on leadership.
His speeches have a transformative effect on listeners, helping them see their businesses in new ways and achieve success they never thought possible.
With Chris Dyer’s help, many companies have boosted their productivity, performance and profitability.
Chris Dyer is the founder and CEO of PeopleG2, where he oversees a team of 30 full-time remote workers and 3,000 freelancers.
PeopleG2 is consistently rated as one of the best jobs in the area and was named to Inc.’s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list.
Nadia Harris
Nadia Harris is an advocate for companies that foster flexible employment with the goal to build a bridge between business needs of companies and flexible work by eliminating unconscious bias around remote work
She has helped countless businesses by connecting them in the era of remote work. With a wealth of multinational work under her belt, she’s an expert in HR operations, growth strategies, and talent attraction.
Her unique perspective as a “third-culture kid” has given her insight into how to best manage cross-continental teams.
She has a wealth of experience in designing both remote and hybrid work infrastructures for different types of organizations.
Additionally, she is well-versed in conducting “remote-ready audits” to help businesses and individuals identify what steps need to be taken in order to thrive in the digital age of work.
Darcy Boles
Darcy Boles oversees TaxJar’s workplace culture and innovation. She’s an expert at establishing corporate culture and believes that “Remote work won’t kill culture; it will reveal it.” She swears she’ll never work any other way than from home.
Darcy is a remote work speaker, author, and influencer who got selected as one of 2019’s top 50 remote thinking leaders. She’s also a remote-how Academy instructor and author.
During her presentations, she’ll talk about ways to overcome remote work challenges and boost our colleagues’ and our own confidence in the ever-changing world of working remotely.
Trina Hoefling
Trina Hoefling, the creator of GroupONE Solutions, is a seasoned thought leader and educator passionate about helping people and businesses succeed.
She is the co-founder The Smart Workplace, a consultancy that helps organizations, teams, and individuals be agile in a mobile workplace, and a learning portal for workplace competence in today’s mobile, flexible work world, in addition to her 30-year organization transformation consultancy.
Since inventing remote management training in 1984, she has virtually altered the workplace.
She is the author of Working Virtually: Transforming the Mobile Workplace. It offers tools to assess readiness, advice on creating appropriate reward policies, and strategies to adapt performance management processes to be more team-driven and technology leveraged.
Sara Sutton
Sara Sutton is the founder and CEO of FlexJobs, a creative employment website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time job postings, the 1 Million for Work Flexibility campaign, and Remote.co, a one-stop resource for remote teams and businesses.
For her efforts in the sectors of technology and employment, she was designated a Young Global Leader (class of 2014) by the World Economic Forum. Sutton is a UC Berkeley graduate who now resides in Boulder, Colorado.
As a flexible work speaker, she is passionate about guiding companies on building remote and hybrid teams that are effective in producing high quality results for the organization.
David Burkus
One of the world’s finest business thinkers, David Burkus, is aiding leaders and teams in accomplishing their best work through his forward-thinking ideas and popular books.
He is the author of four best-selling business and leadership books. His works have been translated into many languages and have received several awards. Burkus gets regarded as one of the world’s most influential business thinkers. The University of Oklahoma awarded Burkus a master’s degree in organizational psychology.
Sacha Connor
Sacha Connor is the founder and CEO of Virtual Work Insider, which assists companies and agencies in teaching hybrid and remote teams how to lead, communicate, cooperate, and develop culture across geographic boundaries.
Sacha has 18 years of client and agency-side experience in business and marketing leadership. While working for The Clorox Company, she spent eight years directing huge, hybrid teams from afar.
She was one of the company’s first remote marketing directors, in charge of enterprises worth more than $250 million.
Ali Greene
Ali Greene is a full-time digital nomad, logistics genius, consultant, and specialist in remote work.
She’s worked in startups for ten years and led remote teams for four years while traveling the world full-time.
Ali applies her real-life expertise to Remote Business Strategies and People Operations, from rolling out benefits programs while slurping ramen in Tokyo to planning a corporate reorganization from the beaches of Spain.
Ali is the creator of cohana site, a company whose purpose is to educate, inspire, and engage teams to develop efficient, effective, and innovative frameworks.
Jeff Robbins
Jeff Robbins co-founded Lullabot, a successful Drupal-focused digital strategy, design, and development agency.
Some of their well-known clients include The GRAMMYs, Fast Company, and Sony Music.
He successfully led the team of 65 remote employees until 2017 when he decided to leave the company.
Nowadays, Jeff uses his powers for good by offering business mentorship and guidance to various corporate bigwigs. He teaches them how to build workplaces that are fun and fulfilling for both their workers and themselves.
Darren Murph
Darren Murph is GitLab’s Head of Remote Work and called an “oracle of remote work” by CNBC.
He works at the nexus of culture, operations, people, marketing, and communication.
He’s spent his professional life directing remote teams and navigating distant transitions.
He is the author of GitLab’s Remote Playbook and “Living the Remote Dream” and a Guinness World Record in publishing.
Darren Murphrren has pioneered as the Head of Remote function and has an accomplishments list.
Wade Foster
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, a productivity solution that connects over 1,300 apps to boost productivity in the office. All he desired was to be his employer and care for his family.
Wade Foster and his firm have aided in the transformation of several sectors.
Wade also has the invaluable experience to give about how remote teams can work more efficiently because Zapier has been a 100% virtual firm since its beginning in 2011.
Cheryl Cran
Cheryl Cran is a remote work specialist and the founder of a future-of-work consulting organization. She has written ten novels.
Cheryl Cran collaborates with business executives and their teams to design tomorrow’s workplaces today. Cran helps companies create the leadership capacity needed to change the world through business.
Thousands of her clients have profited from her skills over the last two decades, resulting in development, evolution, and success. Thousands of her customers have benefited from her experience.
Darren Buckner
Darren Buckner is the co-founder and CEO of Workfrom, a platform that connects mobile employees with other workspaces.
Workfrom aims to digitize the world’s workable space and link a fresh era of professionals to the tools they need to succeed outside the office.
Bunker worked as a top engineer and designer, an application developer, and a front-end developer before co-founding Workfrom in 2014.
Portland State University awarded him a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
Egor Borushko
Egor Borushko is running a seven-figure worldwide business from his home on the Indonesian island of Bali.
As remote work grows increasingly widespread, Egor talks about how his firm started and what he thinks about the future of work.
In his presentations, Egor discusses the conference’s history and the benefits of having distant teams.
They discuss how a dispersed team functions outside of the office and how firms may benefit from the professional perspectives on remote team management.
Lorraine Charles
Lorraine is knowledgeable about the Middle East’s political economy, development, and education. Her current study will focus on the refugee employment and education, specifically digital livelihoods.
She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Na’amal, a humanitarian organization that connects forcibly displaced persons with remote employment opportunities and the skills training and mentorship.
She is also a Co-Leader of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement’s Digital Skills and Digital Work project.
Sarah Aviram
Sarah Aviram is a former Human Resources and Talent Development executive of a Fortune 500 company.
In 2019, she released the best-selling book Remotivation after working remotely from 12 locations in 12 months to investigate the future of work.
Remote, the industry’s leading firm, named her one of the top 25 remote work pioneers for 2021.
Sarah is a keynote speaker and training facilitator on working remotely, hybrid teams, and change tolerance for organizations of all sizes.
Shelby Wolpa
Shelby Wolpa, vice president of people operations, seeks to provide a world-class employee engagement for InVision’s distributed staff of 800 individuals.
Wolpa is in charge of the people operations technologies and procedures, benefits programs, and people data analytics.
Wolpa is reinventing what a genuine workplace culture may be, building programs that connect created and purpose for InVisioners, as part of its ownership of the end-to-end employee experience.
Ironically, Wolpa landed in the HR profession by accident.
Job van der Voort
Job started his career as a neurologist before becoming the VP of Product at GitLab, the world’s best all-remote firm, where he employed people from 67 different countries.
Job is in high demand as a remote work speaker on themes such as scaling a remote-first firm, remote culture, and the future of work.
He believes that “You can’t expect people to work at a particular time, given they’re likely to be in a different timezone. Working asynchronously is necessary to function.”
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