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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.
JJ Reeder
JJ Reeder, former Director of Remote Organizational Effectiveness at Upwork, is leading the charge in revolutionizing knowledge management for remote-first organizations. This April at Running
Izabella Lorenz
In her current role at Zoom, Izabella leads the Global Workplace and Real Estate Strategy, focusing on developing and implementing comprehensive frameworks that drive transformation
Shelby Wolpa
Shelby Wolpa is the former people leader at four venture-backed companies that scaled to unicorn status (Palantir/Instacart/One Medical/InVision) and now advise Series A-C startups on
Justin Harlan
Justin Harlan is the Managing Director of Tulsa Remote, a program honored on Fast Company’s prestigious list of World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022, which
Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson serves as Vice President of Global Research & Planning at MillerKnoll. His team leads MillerKnoll’s research efforts in partnership with a wide variety
Mr. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard.
Nick Bloom
Nick is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has been researching working from home for 20 years, winning a Guggenheim Fellowship for this
Alina Jesien
Alina is an expert in building, scaling and empowering remote and distributed teams. While working remotely for the past 10+ years, she has helped build
Brian Elliott
After 25 years in tech as a startup CEO and exec at Google and Slack, Brian founded Future Forum, a think tank focused on the
Mark Cruth
Mark is truly “living the dream” as Atlassian’s resident Modern Work expert and evangelist. Focused on practice over theory, Mark spends his days coaching both
Douglas Ferguson
Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based change agency that helps enterprises spark,
Chase Warrington
Chase Warrington is the Head of Operations at Doist, the remote-first company of 100 people in 35 countries, behind Todoist and Twist, which collectively support
Sujan Patel
Sujan Patel is the founder of Mailshake, a sales engagement software used by 20,000 sales and marketing professionals. He also owns 8 other SaaS companies
Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he
Andy Tryba
Andy is a 20x remote-first CEO and a leading voice in the future of work. As Co-Founder of Ionic Partners, an enterprise software buyout firm, Andy specializes
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.
Danny Page
Danny serves as the MC of Running Remote, and hosts the Running Remote podcast. In his full-time role, Danny works as VP, Operations at Enduring
Zach Boyette
Zach Boyette is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galactic Fed, a fully remote growth marketing agency with 120+ employees across 20+ countries. Zach has built
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
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
