EP010 - Head of Remote - A new way of remote leadership with Valentina Thörner the Empress of Remote
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Head of Remote - A new way of remote leadership with Valentina Thörner the Empress of Remote
About the episode
This episode focuses on remote leadership - specifically, the newly emerging title, head of remote. We cover the evolution of the title, the principles of remote leadership, the differences between business operations and people operations, and the intersections between remote processes and HR. To discuss this, I invited Valentina Thörner, remote leadership expert and head of remote at Klaus.
About the guest
Valentina is a Remote Leadership Expert with over a decade of experience teaching remote best practices. As a trainer and coach she focuses on middle managers who want to improve their remote leadership skills. As a consultant she works with companies that want to align their remote operations with their values and company goals. Originally from Germany, she lives in Spain raising primary school twins as a single mom. She also runs in the mountains to think. Connect with Valentina on LinkedIn or on her website.
About the host
My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.
Connect with me on LinkedIn.
Want to become a guest on the show? Contact me here.
Quotes from the show
The way people work together influences the product like no other thing. So if you can help people collaborate and communicate more coherently, this will always have positive effects across the entire business.
If you have a hybrid company but want to be remote first, send everybody home for a week and see what breaks.
No one really teaches us how to make friends when we are adults. Take away the social and supporting network of those who had their friends in the office, and you suddenly created a challenging remote setup.