REMOTE-FIRST.INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Adult Learning Professional / Leader in Developing Scalable Standards and Processes for Training and Support Content in Complex, Global Organizations
Chad specializes in developing scalable standards and processes for training and support content in complex, global organizations. He leads Trainers, Instructional Designers, and Content Strategists to create world-class customer support and employee support experiences.
Chase Warrington is the Head of Remote at Doist, a pioneer of distributed work that specializes in productivity software. Doist created the award-winning task management app Todoist, and Twist, the first team messaging app designed for async work. Collectively, Doist supports 25 million people globally to stay organized and productive.
Chase is responsible for developing and executing Doist's remote work strategy, co-located events, and advocating for the future of work on behalf of the company. His work has led him to be recognized as a leader in the 2022 Remote Influencer Report and a 2022 LinkedIn Top Voice for Remote Work. He has worked remotely for over 12 years, as one of Doist's 100 employees in 35 countries. He is a regular contributor, instructor, and consultant to many of the leading remote work organizations and publications, as well as the host of his own podcast, About Abroad.
Chase is currently based in Spain and is fluent in English and conversational in Spanish. When not nerding out about remote work, he loves traveling in his campervan, spending time in the mountains, and taking his husky pup on a jog from time to time.
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- Company Culture and Remote Work Expert
Chris Dyer is a recognized company culture and remote work expert. As a former CEO managing thousands of people, his companies consistently were named a best place to work. They have also been named a fastest growing company by Inc Magazine 5 times. Chris routinely consults and speaks, and Inc Magazine ranked him as the #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture. He has two bestselling books The Power of Company Culture and Remote Work, and has been named #5 on the Leadershum Power List, a Top 40 Change Management Guru, a Top 50 Global Thought Leader, and a Top 50 leadership podcast just this year.
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- Member of the Board of Swiss
Book author, keynote speaker, experienced in management, consulting, marketing, and sales
Dr Beat Buhlmann possesses many years of senior management, consulting, marketing, and sales experience in the Internet & IT industry and has worked around the world for renowned companies such as Google, Evernote, Dell and HP. Thanks to his dual background (IT & Business Administration) combined with his apprenticeship as a car mechanic, the author's key strength is bridging the gap between theory and practice. He addresses the needs of working practitioners and focuses on instantly actionable output. He teaches Digital Transformation as well as Virtual Team Management (the latter being his doctoral thesis and the topic of his first book) at various leading universities around the world, including IMD Lausanne, Harvard Extension School, Hult, Universities of St. Gallen, Lucerne, and Zurich, and is an internationally experienced keynote speaker at conferences and company events.
Further, Beat is member of the board of Swiss-based companies helping them navigate through the digital transformation process.
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- CEO of the Boutique Future - of - Work Consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts
Hybrid-first culture thought leader, author of books, highly in-demand international speaker
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky helps leaders use hybrid work to improve retention and productivity while cutting costs. He serves as the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts, which which helps organizations adopt a hybrid-first culture, instead of incrementally improving on the traditional office-centric culture.
Dr. Gleb wrote the first book on returning to the office and leading hybrid teams after the pandemic, a best-seller called Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage (Intentional Insights, 2021). He authored six other books, and is best known for his global bestseller, Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019). It's the first book to focus on cognitive biases in business leadership and reveal how leaders can overcome these dangerous judgment errors effectively. His writing was translated into Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French, and other languages.
Dr. Tsipursky's cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 650 articles he published and over 550 interviews he gave to popular venues. These include Harvard Business Review, Fortune, USA Today, Fast Company, CBS News, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Entrepreneur, The Conversation, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, NPR, Time, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Fox News, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and many others.
Dr. Tsipursky's expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting, coaching, speaking, and training for innovative startups, major nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies, such as Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Fifth Third Bank, Honda, Outreach Corporation, ProMedica, Reckitt, The Columbus Foundation, Wells Fargo, the World Wildlife Fund, Xerox, and over a hundred others who achieve outstanding client results.
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- Co - Founder & CPO @ Upflex
Ginger is a seasoned entrepreneur with 15 years of experience successfully working with managing globally distributed teams at high-growth startups. She has led product and technology development from ideation to launch of several patented disruptive technologies in the healthcare, e-commerce, and fashion industries in Asia, Canada, and the U.S. Ginger was a founding member of Embedded Wireless, an R & D facility, and was instrumental in growing the company from 1 to 100 engineers, with international offices in Malaysia, India, and the U.S. Currently, Ginger is the Co-Founder and CPO of Upflex, a powerful workspace platform bringing together people, places, and data to deliver the right spaces for forward-thinking companies and global talent.
Iwo Szapar is a Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder of Remote-how, the world's leading platform for remote professionals powered by and for the community of 25,000+ people from 128 countries. Through various initiatives like Remote-how Academy or Virtual Coworking, together with the world's top remote companies like GitLab, Prezi, or Doist, Remote-how is on a mission to help everyone achieve freedom of choice where and when they work.
Iwo is a relentless doer - the kind of self-proclaimed workaholic every team needs. Driven by a love for travel (lived on 3 different continents, while visiting 65 countries - and still can't get enough), as well as a desire to be as productive as possible, anytime, anywhere, Iwo is passionate about helping companies everywhere successfully implement remote workforces.
He has been featured by BBC, Forbes, or Bussiness Insider while advocating for the #remotework revolution. In his downtime, Iwo loves to write, follow global politics (which he tries to replace with cooking), and play with dogs.
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- Chief Evangelist at MURAL
Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in design, customer experience, and strategy. He is currently Chief Evangelist at MURAL, the leading online whiteboard. Jim is the author of three books: Designing Web Navigation (O'Reilly, 2007), Mapping Experiences (O'Reilly, 2016), and most recently The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (Rosenfeld, 2020). He is also the Co-founder and Principal at the JTBD Toolkit, an online resource with learning, trainings, and content. Jim blogs at experiencinginformation.com and tweets under @jimkalbach.
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- Founder of Remote Skills Academy & Livit Hub Bali / Managing Partner at Livit Founder of Remote Skills Academy & Livit Hub Bali Speaker APAC & EU Future of Work Advocate WoP & BASB
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- Founder at Innovation Distributed
Location Independent ♀️ Helping people embrace complexities & cultivate meaningful connections ✨ Founder Founding Member at The Remote-First Institute
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- COO & Co - Founder at Remote - How / COO & Co - Founder at Remote - How
Mike Gutman has been leading remote teams for 15 years. As the former marketing director for FlexJobs, Mike helped connect the value of work flexibility to employer strategy and job seekers, including running corporate conferences on remote work strategy for fortune 100 companies. He is a Linkedin Learning author on topics such as remote work policy, remote work management, and day-to-day best practices and has reached over 1 Million learners. He currently works on remote workforce development projects and consults corporate leadership teams about their remote and hybrid work models.
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- Founder of Remoteworkadvocate.Com
Founder of remoteworkadvocate.com MBA, LLM Book Author "How to tackle hybrid working?", Conference Speaker
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- Workforce Innovation Specialist
Sophie Wade is a Workforce Innovation Specialist. She is an authority on the wide-ranging Future-of-Work issues impacting companies and workers' new demands - such as attracting, engaging and retaining talent; digital transformation; managing a distributed workforce; and new career paradigms.