Bruno Guerra Cunha is a self-starter operator who spent the last 7 years building partnerships in startups from Seed to Series D. He started working remotely before it was cool.
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Lila MacLellan is a reporter for Quartz, a global business news site. She covers the workplace, leadership, and management topics for Quartz at Work. Her bylines have appeared in business and lifestyles publications in the US and Canada, including The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, Institutional Investor, Natural Health, Western Living, and Vancouver magazine. Lila is based in New York and has lived and worked in Canada, Japan, and the US.
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, accelerate, and sustain innovation. He specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.
Douglas is a thought leader and master facilitator of Design Sprints, Innovation Acceleration, Team Alignment, Meeting Systems, Culture Transitions, and Change Transformations. He is also the author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within. He has been published in Forbes, Fast Company, Innovation Leader, and is a regular contributor to The Future Shapers. He publishes a weekly podcast called Control the Room.
Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful magical meetings in their place, Voltage Control is calling upon fellow facilitators to transform meeting and innovation culture. From free weekly community meetups to Control the Room–the annual facilitator summit, Voltage Control is building a community of facilitators to change the world.
Douglas is active in the Austin startup community where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures. Prior to founding Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups where he led product and engineering teams.
When not facilitating or coaching facilitators you might find Douglas patching up his Modular Synth, boxing, or doing pilates.
Daphnée is the founder of Modern Leaders, a consulting firm on a mission to help executives, people ops and team leaders drive a company-wide shift toward remote-first ways of working.
Within 10 years of experience in fully distributed companies, she played key roles in establishing scalable workflows for growth, facilitating business decisions remotely and building internal products dedicated to digital-first teams.
At Modern Leaders, Daphnée advises organizations wanting to elevate their practice to reflect today’s digital workplace, become better facilitators and enhance their org-design & workflows.
As an early advocate of remote work, she previously led in 2016 the first online conference about corporate remote work with over 1500 live attendees. Recently, she launched the Remote First Podcast where every week she chats with leaders from large companies (Shopify, Slack, Elastic ) about their experience at scaling a digital-first culture.
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 Nomad Village in Ponta do Sol, Madeira and Cape Verde Remote Work Program, founder at Remote Work Movement Podcast, Future of Work Conferences, Remote Portugal and Remote Europe, projects that help the remote work movement in different angles.
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