2020 April Remote AID

Melinda Stallings
Melinda Stallings is the founder and CEO of The Positive Consultant®, a global consulting firm specializing in leadership development, conflict resolution, and workplace transformation. With

Becca Sherman
Becca Sherman is the Co-Founder & COO of Workweek, the platform for professional networks that is revolutionizing how business leaders connect, learn, and grow in

Howard Lerman
Founder & CEO Roam Howard Lerman is Founder & CEO of Roam. Roam is the Office Of The Future: AI Coworkers and People collaborating in

Tiffiney Fort
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

Crystal O’Neill
Crystal O’Neill is the President of Seer Interactive, a 175-person digital marketing agency and certified B Corp. Since joining Seer in 2007—when the team was

Travis McAshan
Travis McAshan is the founder and CEO of GLIDE, an award-winning digital creative agency headquartered in Austin, Texas. With nearly two decades of industry experience,

Sasha Franco
Sasha Franco leading the strategy and execution behind Zapier’s retreats, leadership offsites, and internal experiences, creating meaningful connection across a fully remote team of over

Leigh Staub
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

Meaghan Williams
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

Manar Morales
Manar Sweillam Morales is a national thought leader and visionary on building human-centered workplace cultures at the intersection of diversity, flexibility, and well-being. As the

Ebbie Wisecarver
Chief Design Officer WeWork Ebbie Wisecarver is WeWork’s Chief Design Officer, responsible for leading the physical product’s creative direction, strategy, and development. This includes overseeing

Kristen Parisi
Kristen Parisi is a reporter for HR Brew, specializing in workplace DE&I issues. She has been featured with other outlets including NPR, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and

Sophie Wade
Sophie Wade is a Workforce Innovation Specialist at Future-of-Work consultancy Flexcel Network, keynote speaker, author and Board advisor. Over 620,000 people have taken her LinkedIn

Julie Armendariz
Julie Armendariz currently serves as a SR HR Partner at Block, and supports some of the executive engineering teams within CashApp. Prior to Block, she

Sarah Beth Herman
Sarah Beth Herman is a 5x CEO, entrepreneur, and leadership expert who has spent nearly 25 years building and scaling businesses with real, results-driven strategies.

Chris Patrick
Chris Patrick is the Head of People Operations at Zapier, where he has played a pivotal role in scaling the company from 100 to over

Sean Campbell
Today, I lead Cascade Insights as the company’s CEO. In this role, I’m fortunate to lead a team of exceptional professionals who specialize in B2B

Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni
Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni is the founder and CEO of Balsamiq, the wireframing tool that helps lean product teams turn early ideas into clear, actionable direction—fast.

Sarah Walker
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

John Gordon
John Gordon is the president and general manager of HP Managed Solutions, a position he has held since September of 2023. Within this role, John

Maryam Taheri
Maryam Taheri is an experienced executive with over a decade of experience overseeing strategy, operations, HR, training, operational excellence, marketing, and customer experience at both

Ebony Beckwith
Ebony Beckwith is the founder of Framework, a firm that partners with executives, founders, and organizations to decode corporate culture to create operational excellence and

Cory Sivell
Cory Sivell is a second-time founder and currently the Co-Founder & CEO of RetreatsAndVenues, the go-to marketplace for booking transformational company retreats and offsites. Trusted

Erin Grau
Erin Grau has spent two decades at the intersection of talent and operations in global organizations and startups, steering companies and people toward the future.

Micha Kaufman
Micha Kaufman, is Fiverr‘s Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since our inception. He is

Sharon Koifman
Sharon Koifman is the founder and president of DistantJob — a boutique staffing agency that helps recruit full-time remote employees. He believes every company, from the

Roberta Sawatzky
Roberta Sawatzky is a creative business collaborator committed to meaningful research and effective teaching both in a co-located and distributed working model. Armed with a

Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan, the founder of AppSumo, is a famous entrepreneur who writes about marketing at OkDork.com. Noah was a cubicle slave at Intel, #30 at Facebook

David Abraham
David Abraham is the co-founder at Outpost, a next-generation travel and hospitality brand designed to meet the needs of remote professionals and nomads exploring the world

Gonçalo Hall
NomadX is a community centric brand that creates legendary experiences for digital nomads all around the world. Gonçalo is also the creator of the Digital

Chris Herd
Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of Firstbase, an all-in-one provisioning platform that lets companies provide all the practical equipment remote workers need at the touch

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 –

Karen Rubin
Karen Rubin is the Chief Revenue Officer at Owl Labs. Beginning her career in 2004 in investment banking, Karen then completed four years as project manager

Tracy Keogh
Tracy is the co-founder of one of the largest remote communities, Grow Remote. Having more than 10 years of experience in technology startups, Tracy spent the

Paul Estes
Paul Estes is an unstoppable advocate for the Talent Economy who is dedicated to creating opportunity for everyone, reskilling by doing, and bringing diversity to

Stephen Gates
Stephen Gates is the global design leader building world-class organizations that integrate human-centered design to drive product and service innovation. He is currently working as

Ryan Chartrand
Ryan Chartrand is the former CEO of X-Team, providing high performing, on-demand teams of developers to the world’s leading brands including Kaplan, Fox Broadcasting, Riot

Iwo Szapar
Iwo Szapar is Remote-first Activist. Since 2017, as the CEO of Remote-how, and co-founder of the Remote-First Institute, he has helped 2,500+ companies (including Walmart,

Ryan Malone
Ryan Malone is the Founder and CEO of SmartBug Media®, a leading Intelligent Inbound marketing agency that assists businesses in generating leads, increasing awareness, and building

Taso Du Val
As Toptal’s Chief Executive Officer, Taso manages Toptal’s core team of hundreds of team members distributed throughout the world, with a focus on innovation. Since Toptal was

Eran Zinman
Eran is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at monday.com. monday.com is a cloud-based Work OS, that enables remote teams to run their processes, projects, and everyday

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
David Heinemeier Hansson, popularly known as DHH, needs no introduction. He is the CTO of Basecamp, co-author of 4 books, and the creator of the open-source

Jo Palmer
Jo Palmer is the owner and founder of Pointer Remote Roles, 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National winner and Ambassador for Flexible Work Day. Jo is

Christopher Finneral
Christopher Finneral is the CEO and founder of SketchDeck, a software-powered design service. With an innovative design platform, the talented, global design team focuses on the

Tricia Sciortino
As CEO of BELAY, Tricia Sciortino strives to lead and inspire her team to provide extraordinary services while finding great talent along the way. It’s her

Matt Davey
Matt Davey is the Chief Operations Optimist at 1Password. He oversees marketing, design, content, and partnerships and hosts a podcast. 1Password is a leading online security app

Molood Ceccarelli
Molood Ceccarelli is often referred to as the queen of remote work, is the CEO and founder of Remote Forever where she coaches distributed companies to adopt

Renate Kohlmann
With over 25 years’ experience in global management and leadership roles, Renate’s journey to remote working began in 2004 as EMEA Outsource Operations Manager with Dell and

Dee Coakley
Dee Coakley is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boundless – a cloud-based platform that allows small and medium-sized innovative businesses to quickly and easily manage multi-country payroll

Simon Harrison
Simon Harrison is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading the global marketing function to engage new and existing customers and partners, drive adoption

Chathri Ali
Chathri Ali is the Chief Operating Officer for ReCharge, the leading subscription billing platform designed for physical subscription goods. She currently oversees our remote sales, marketing,

David Hassell
David Hassell is a serial entrepreneur, business columnist, and speaker, who believes that when leaders support their employees in becoming their best selves, high engagement,

Sherry Walling
Dr. Sherry Walling helps smart people do hard things. She works with leaders and entrepreneurs to tackle the common and uncommon challenges that go along

Rob Walling
Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and podcast host. He is the co-founder of the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers, called TinySeed.

Stacy Elliott
Stacy Elliott is the Sr Director of Executive Communications; Office of the Executive Vice President of Microsoft. Stacy spent her early career in public relations with

Dave MacLeod
Dave MacLeod is the CEO of the crowd communication platform: Thoughtexchange. He and his team have been empowering leaders to bring people together to solve problems

Lori McLeese
Lori McLeese is the Happiness (w)Rangler (Global Head of Human Resources) at Automattic Inc (the company behind WordPress.com and so much more!). She and her team focus on

Darren Murph
Named an “oracle of remote work” by CNBC and featured in The Forbes Future of Work 50, Darren is a recognized visionary in organizational design.

Tara Vasdani
Tara Vasdani is the Principal Lawyer and Founder of Remote Law Canada., a law firm specializing in Civil Litigation, Employment Law, and Remote Work. In both

Andreas Klinger
Andreas Klinger is an Investor at Remote First Capital. A group of remote founders, operators and early investors investing in the next generation of remote

Sacha Connor
Sacha Connor is the CEO of Virtual Work Insider, a consultancy that provides training programs and content on how to lead, communicate, collaborate, and build

Steli Efti
Steli Efti is the co-founder and CEO of Close. He’s Silicon Valley’s most prominent sales hustler, a YC alumni, advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs

Amir Salihefendić
Amir is the CEO and founder of the remote-first company Doist. Born in Bosnia, he grew up in Denmark, and now lives in the beautiful

Liam Martin
Liam Martin is the co-founder and CMO of Time Doctor and Staff.com — one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by















