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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.
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EP050 - Modern work practices for growing companies with Henry Poydar of Status Hero
This episode focuses on modern work collaboration principles for growing companies, mainly in the tech & software space. With the abundance of tools aimed at online collaboration, sometimes a distributed workspace can be even as distracting as an office. My guest, Henry Poydar addresses this challenge with his tool, Status Hero, which helps online teams collaborate better.
EP049 - How to collaborate async-first remote teams with Sumeet Gayathri Moghe at Thoughtworks
This episode focuses on async-first collaboration techniques within remote teams. Our guest, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe, is an agile enthusiast and a published author of The Async-First Playbook. He blogs weekly on his site, Async Agile, and helps software teams collaborate better at Thoughtworks.
EP048 - How to build remote into your company’s DNA with Darcy Marie Mayfield
This episode focuses on remote culture and, more importantly, creating a remote culture built into your company’s DNA. How you can match your people’s needs with the business's goals while keeping an engaged, loyal, and productive team in a remote environment. I sat down with Darcy Marie Mayfield, a remote experience designer who came a long way from Airbnb, TaxJar, and Stripe to becoming a source of help for remote teams worldwide.
EP047 - Happiness is a metric that builds better teams with Dr. Raúl Antón Cuadrado of Automattic
This episode focuses on happiness. I sat down with Dr. Raúl Antón Cuadrado, the people analytics lead to one of the most renowned fully remote companies, Automattic, makers of WordPress, and many other amazing tools. We know when we are happy. But how do we measure happiness since it directly impacts team productivity?
EP046 - Solving leadership challenges remotely with Daria Rudnik
This episode focuses on remote leadership challenges and how to solve them. How do we create engaged teams with purpose and intention? How can you engineer a team structure that allows remote productivity? To discuss, I have Daria Rudnik, who's helping businesses as a team architect and leadership coach.
EP045 - Building authentic connections online with Dave Cairns and Chris Moeller at Inspired People Inspired Places
This episode focuses on authenticity and how to build authentic connections online. Dave and Chris are building great events in the metaverse where honest and engaging conversations happen within their community. They share their insights on the why and the how in the episode.
EP044 - How to manage IT infrastructure for distributed teams with Carlos Escuita at GroWrk
This episode focuses on the ever-present infrastructure that allows all of us to work remotely. Carlos Escuita, CEO of GroWrk, shares great insights on how to build a globally distributed team and keep them connected with a secured IT infrastructure. Carlos also shares his experience and his tips on building his company fully remotely.
EP043 - A blueprint for managing distributed teams with Federico Maffini of Amazon AWS
This episode focuses on managing a globally distributed team in a massive organization like Amazon AWS. We will discuss how to operate a “startup” within a large organization, and how to keep people engaged and help them contribute by building out a supportive environment online. Federico Maffini, Head of Business Operations at Amazon AWS weighs in with his management experience and insights.
EP042 - How to build workplace communities with Todd Nilson and Ilker Akansel of TalentLed
This episode focuses on how to build workplace communities to boost employee engagement, and loyalty, and reduce churn. We dive deep into the nuances of building a professional community with Todd Nilson and Ilker Akansel, co-founders of TalendLed.
EP041 - How to boost employee experience with transparency with Adam Horne of Open Org
This episode focuses on how to boost employee experience with more transparency. The more open a company is, the higher the level of trust is within teams. With distributed teams, transparency is given and preferred in terms of operations to ensure clarity and efficiency. To discuss this, I invited Adam Horne, the co-founder of Open Org.