27-29 APRIL 2026
AUSTIN, USA

Running Remote Community

Learn, connect and get support from other founders & executives

Running Remote Community is a membership for leaders building & scaling their distributed companies while getting the support they need, when they need it.

Three types of people join

Remote-first Founders, CEOs & COOs

People who actively run remote operations for their established companies of min 5+ employees. Whether you’ve been remote-first from the start or just transitioning now it’s a place for you. Founders who are scaling & building their business and need help with remote management.

People Ops Executives for remote-first companies

Executives who “design work” to enable employees to bring their best to the job every day. They are pro-actively involved in shaping strategic decisions around work by understanding high-level business objectives and crucial aims for remote-first companies.

Workspace Experience experts / Heads of Remote

Executives who are focused on making flexible work as easy and rewarding as possible for the company’s employees. People who serve as a cross-functional internal consultant to evolve key pillars e.g. L&D, knowledge management, and onboarding so that each function becomes more effective in a distributed setting.

Join a network of remote-first founders 
& executives

Every member of our diverse community has been in your shoes. They’ve built remote companies like HotJar, Toggl, Zillow, and Gitlab. They understand the struggle of building and running a remote-first company.

Nadia Vatalidis

Head of People Ops
Doist

Nadia Vatalidis is a Senior People & Culture Executive with extensive experience in building and scaling distributed teams. As Head of People at Doist, creators of the award-winning applications Todoist and Twist, she oversees people strategy and culture for a 100+ person team distributed across 35+ countries, supporting 45 million users worldwide. With over a decade of experience scaling remote-first organizations, Nadia has helped multiple industry-leading companies grow from dozens to thousands of employees while maintaining strong cultural foundations. Her expertise spans remote-first organizational design, international expansion, and building self-enabled cultures in distributed environments. She has an impressive track record of scaling global teams – growing Remote.com from 70 to 1000 employees in 80+ countries and GitLab from 75 to 1,300 employees in more than 60 countries, culminating in their successful IPO.

Nadia Vatalidis
Head of People Ops
Doist

Tiffiney Fort

Director of Employee Experience
Coursera
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With over 30 years of business experience including 10+ years managing M&A Integration, extensive employee and leadership change management, team training, global process standardization, and employee experience analysis, Tiffiney dove into the hybrid space and never looked back. She spent 2 years helping craft Cisco’s hybrid engagement strategy and now manages the employee experience of the distributed teams at Coursera. Tiffiney is especially energized by helping leaders find new ways to engage and inspire their teams by offering practical and easy to follow pathways to excellence. She holds to the motto, “Understanding is the first step” and aids leaders and teams in creating process and engagement models that target their specific needs in simple replicable ways.

Tiffiney Fort
Director of Employee Experience
Coursera

Leigh Staub

Employee Experience & Communications Leader
dbt Labs
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Leigh Staub is the Director of Employee Experience at dbt Labs, where she creates people-first strategies that make distributed work equitable, engaging, and effective. She focuses on designing flexible, inclusive ways of working that empower employees to thrive while strengthening company culture. Passionate about building intentional, scalable experiences, Leigh helps teams perform at their best, foster meaningful connections, and become lifelong brand ambassadors—ensuring every employee feels supported and set up for success, no matter where they work.

Leigh Staub
Employee Experience & Communications Leader
dbt Labs

Meaghan Williams

Manager, Hybrid Experience
Hubspot
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Meaghan Williams is the Manager of Hybrid Experience at HubSpot, where she leads a team dedicated to ensuring that all 8,000+ global employees can work where they work best—while having a remarkable experience. Passionate about fostering inclusive, engaging, and productive work environments, Meaghan focuses on optimizing hybrid work strategies that support connection, flexibility, and productivity at scale.

Meaghan Williams
Manager, Hybrid Experience
Hubspot

Georgie Roberts

Head of People and Ops
Float.com
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Georgie Roberts
Head of People and Ops
Float.com

Sarah Walker

Chief People Officer
The Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Sarah Walker is a cross-functional, performance-driven executive with 15+ years of excellence in building highly optimized People and Operational infrastructures as well as inclusive, high-performing workforces positioned to accelerate business results while navigating strategic change. She advises executives on people, processes and strategies that help achieve business goals. Sarah’s experience ranges from large-scale, publicly traded organizations to small privately-held entrepreneurial environments and has guided teams through M&As, hyper-growth periods, and wind down transformations. Sarah currently serves as the Chief People Officer and interim Chief Operating Officer for the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), an innovative business ecosystem helping visionary companies at all stages drive long-term profit with purpose.

Sarah Walker
Chief People Officer
The Long-Term Stock Exchange

Sarah Hawk

Co-CEO
Discourse
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Hawk (first name Sarah, but keep that on the down-low) is an online community and remote work expert of 20+ years and is currently the co-CEO of Discourse – a 100% remote, globally distributed organization with over 100 employees. Hawk began working as a software developer at Xerox in the 90’s, where her interest in the tech community was sparked, leading to a career change. Her experience as Community Manager of the SitePoint network, Head of Community at UK consultancy FeverBee, and an online community consultant finally led her to joining Discourse, where she now spends her days tackling the challenges of scaling remote work practices.

Sarah Hawk
Co-CEO
Discourse

Ilma Tiki

Co-founder & President
Mailerlite
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Ilma Tiki is the co-founder and the President of MailerLite.

In the last 12 years:

  • Her son was born and they traveled together to more than 40+ countries
    Bootstrapped MailerLite to a global brand that is used by almost 2 million businesses
  • Created a remote team that is based in 35 countries and 14 time zones
  • Sold MailerLite for 90m to a Polish public company, Vercom
  • Moved to New York
  • Wrote a book ‘Leaving the Base Camp’

Ilma believes everyone can build a successful global business on their terms. You can have it all if you dare to dream and leave your comfort zone.

Ilma Tiki
Co-founder & President
Mailerlite

Continuously level up and find solutions to common challenges distributed teams face

Establish strong remote culture

Learn how to cultivate a thriving distributed company culture that helps employees stay connected and fosters the communication that builds trust. Help employees feel seen, even as they work remotely.

Learn how to collaborate across time zones

Find ways to optimize the company’s structure and operations to better align with the demands of diverse teams working across time zones. Learn relevant tools & best practices.

Build rapport amongst colleagues

Get insights on team camaraderie & learn how to make sure people feel a sense of respect and appreciation. Develop processes and platforms for scalable connections.

Change management

Navigate changes in distributed settings. Find out how others transitioned from office-base to remote-first companies and avoid mistakes they’ve made.

Features

Join a community that has your back whenever you need

Slack workplace

Get access to a community of remote-first leaders for immediate support & first-hand advice

Matchmaking

Get tailored connections with other members of the community based on your unique challenges

Masterminds

Participate in curated peer-to-peer masterminds to help you resolve challenges & achieve goals

RR26 Discounted Ticket

Get 30% off Running Remote conference tickets, saving you potentially hundreds of dollars in conference fees

Ask Me Anything sessions

Join Ask Me Anything events with industry experts & ask your burning questions live

AI-Powered Knowledge Base

Get access to an ever-growing curated library of advice, insights & remote tools shared by other members. Now AI-powered.

Office hours

Week-long async AMA with senior, experienced remote-first founders & leaders in our Slack workspace

Actionable, now

A highly interactive deep-dive workshops into practical tips, concrete tools, frameworks, methods, and strategies to solve common challenges remote companies face

Wall of Love

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*We only accept founders, CEOs, COOs, People Ops executives and Heads of Remote at distributed companies to the community.
  No payment will be asked of you until your application has been approved.
 

From URL to IRL

Want a sneak peek?

Every 3 months, we bring in an expert to dive into advanced topics that you can’t find anywhere else. This is your ticket into a conversation with some of the most successful remote-first founders and executives. Previous speakers include:
  • Darren Murph, Future of work consultant (previously Head of Remote @ GitLab)
  • Job van der Voort, CEO @ Remote.com
  • Ken Weary, COO @Hostaway
  • Sara Sutton, ex-Founder & CEO at FlexJobs
  • Tara Vasdani, Founder & Principal Lawyer @ Remote Law Canada

See upcoming events below. Join yourself or invite your team as some of these events are open to the public.

Upcoming community events

Peer-to-peer Masterminds

Navigate your challenges supported by intimate masterminds with trusted peers

Regular & structured sessions

We work together during a monthly live video group coaching session with the structure and focus you need to resolve your challenges

Private channel

A private Slack channel gives members always-on support and an easy way to keep up the momentum created together during live sessions

First-hand advice​

Get practical tips and guidelines in a safe environment from individuals who’ve been there

Rigorous application​

We invest a lot of effort in carefully curating each cohort to make sure you level-up

Learn how to build and scale your distributed company

From building remote hiring, communication and collaboration, team engagement through to remote tools & payroll, you’ll find over 200 advice & recommendations by the likes of HotJar, Doist, MURAL & more in our growing AI-powered library.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Measuring remote team performance
    Practical tips for successful communication
  • Virtual team bonding activities
  • How to translate your culture to remote
  • Remote retreats – lessons learnt
  • How do you compensate your remote team

Are you a remote work consultant?

As part of the Running Remote Community Knowledge Base we created a Remote Work Consultants Directory. The consultants in our directory address these pain points:

  • Helping companies transition to a remote-first model
  • Filling roles of a fractional Head of Remote
  • Assisting with with creating connection and cultivating culture

This list of remote consultants & coaches is constantly growing.

Want to be added to the list? Join the paid community. Apply now.

Apply for our community today

If you’re a founder, CEO, Head of Remote, or People Ops executive at a remote company, apply today.

Access to Running Remote Community is $490/year and includes a free ticket to the Running Remote conference.

No payment will be asked of you until your application has been approved.

Get in touch with the Community Manager

Do you have a question about masterminds or want to know more about us? Choose a time, let’s discuss how the Running Remote Community can help you!

FAQs

Running Remote Community is for founders & executives (i.e. C-level executives, HR and People Ops professionals, Heads of Remote) who are actively running and leading remote-first (or hybrid) companies with over 10 employees.

The community is not intended for non executive managers, junior employees, marketing, consultants, coaches & sales professionals, and companies with less than 10 employees (whether that be contractors or full-time employees).

We are vetting every application to ensure high-quality connections and opportunities. To apply, we ask you to fill in a short questionnaire to understand your unique challenges and expectations. We’re reviewing applications on a weekly basis, so expect an answer from us within 5 working days.

Once accepted, we will send you a link to pay for your membership so that you can get access to our Slack workspace and other resources and we can begin the onboarding process.

We understand that your time is valuable, so it is absolutely up to you how much time you’ll spend in the community.

However, we have consistently seen that you get out what you put in: Often, the biggest contributors are the biggest beneficiaries.

The Running Remote Community membership is USD 399 per year, and members consistently tell us it’s a worthwhile investment. Here’s why:

  • Access to a tight-knit, vetted community of remote-first leaders – founders, C-level executives, People Ops heads, and workplace professionals.
  • 30% off Running Remote conference tickets, saving you potentially hundreds of dollars in conference fees.

 

To preserve quality, all applicants undergo a thorough vetting process. We only admit leaders from remote-first companies – no vendors – ensuring high-value connections, curated discussions, and meaningful collaboration.

Trials make more sense with things like SaaS products, where once you’re in you get a general understanding of what a full commitment will look like and the capabilities that are available to you.

We work to make sure that the community stays a relationship-centric thought exchange and relationships cannot be built in a short month-long trial period.

However, while we do not offer trials, you have an option to sign you up for a free monthly community newsletter so that you can see what members are talking about and get a feeling what it’s like to be a member.

We value the time of our community members as well as the content that is distributed. Part of the vetting process is to make sure that people who join will actively contribute to the community, can relate to the caliber of what is discussed, and are not there purely to sell their own projects or perceive it as a great leads list.

Financial commitment is asked to support the effort from our team that goes into curating this community, organizing monthly events, peer-to-peer masterminds, personal introductions and more. We do provide a script to send to your employer if the Running Remote Community is something you’d like reimbursed as part of your education credits or benefits.

The membership includes a 30% discount to the Running Remote conference, making it a fantastic investment for a business into their remote work efforts.

Learn more about the upcoming event. ​

See why after 8 years and 7,100+ attendees, we are still leading the charge in remote leadership.

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