John O’Duinn

John O’Duinn is a computer guy who has written code and led teams in companies ranging from four person startups to non-profits to multinationals – including in the US Government as part of the U.S. Digital Service in the Obama White House.

John has worked in distributed companies of one form or another for 27 years, led distributed teams for 14 years, run workshops and mentored distributed companies for 6 years. John wrote “Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart” as a practical, easy-to-read,
management book.

John also helped write the State of Vermont’s “Remote Worker” law – a very different approach to Economic Development which was so wildly successful that John is now helping write policies for multiple other jurisdictions world-wide. So far, John has lived and worked in 13 cities across four continents.