Leadership Anywhere Podcast

Actionable insights from remote leaders to remote leaders. Learn from industry leaders in HR, management, and business operations, as well as from entrepreneurs and startup leaders, to improve your remote leadership practice.

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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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EP015 - How to gamify learning and development with Dan Paech of Loumee

This episode focuses on gamification in learning and development. Providing services in learning and development is a challenging task as it is. Adding remote-first setups on top of it makes it even more challenging. I invited Dan Paech from Loumee to discuss how their company is tackling these challenges through gamifying the learning experience for teams.

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EP014 - How can we create more trust within teams with Jan van der Spoel of Grip on Trust

This episode focuses on trust. We don’t understand how trust works in general. Especially when it comes to business. I invited Jan van der Spoel, creator of the 360 Trust Compass and trust consultant, to discuss how organizations and businesses can establish a trustworthy environment. With trust, a company can blossom. Without trust, all can go into the bin. But what are the exact and practical steps to have more trust within our teams?

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EP013 - How to employ anyone, anywhere with Andrea Carlon of Lano

This episode focuses on global employment. Undoubtedly, remote work's main benefit is tapping into the global talent pool and hiring anyone from anywhere. But when it comes to employment, the picture gets blurry: freelance contracts, on-site employment, or something else. So I invited Andrea Carlon from Lano, a global employer of record company, to discuss the topic.

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EP012 - Remote work: the past, the present, the future with Mitko Karshovski of That Remote Life

This episode’s main topic is the evolution of remote work. How did we evolve from digital nomads to titles like the head of remote? How did we evolve from solopreneur freelancers to full-time remote workers? What is the future of remote work? How will we solve asynchronous interplanetary collaboration in the next century? I invited Mitko Karshovski for a chat from the That Remote Life podcast.

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EP011 - Managing remote teams with web3 principles with Tyler Sellhorn of Polygon

This episode focuses on how web3 influences the operations and the management of distributed remote teams. How can transparency be a default for companies? How will distributed workforce shape our future as people? How the way we work is leading to our internal culture? To discuss this, I invited Tyler Sellhorn, Business Operations Manager and former Head of Remote at Polygon Labs.

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EP010 - Head of Remote - A new way of remote leadership with Valentina Thörner the Empress of Remote

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.

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EP008 - How to upgrade your event experience with Carolene Méli of Carolene Meli Consulting

This episode focuses on event experiences. Now that the pandemic allowed most of us to work from home, moving out from home to an event is totally different. We are selective with our choices and we don’t like to attend boring conferences anymore. But how can we upgrade our event experience? How can we use the world of entertainment to shake up the grey corporate events? I invited Carolene Méli, founder of Leveraged Events Lab who previously served 10-years as en event experience manager for Cirque du Soleil, to discuss the topic.

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EP007 - Creating memorable remote team retreats with Matthew Young of Nomadic6

This episode focuses on remote team retreats. How can we build memorable remote team retreats that connects people together and unplugs them from work? Why your growth edge is at the edge of your comfort zone? Why do we need to focus on building memories and experiences? I invited Matt Young, founder of Nomadic6 and remote team retreat expert, to discuss the topic.

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EP005 - How to be a better leader during crisis with Dr. Jonathan H. Westover of Human Capital Innovations

This episode focuses on leadership during challenging times. How owners and co-founders should approach leadership? Can we learn leadership skills, and how? Finally, how should leaders respond to challenges? I invited Dr. Jonathan H. Westover, author, professor of Organizational Leadership and department chair at the Woodbury School of Business, and leadership consultant at Human Capital Innovations, to discuss the topic.

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EP004 - How to approach innovation within your company with Chris Kalaboukis of Ideate+Execute

This episode focuses on innovation. How does innovation work for companies? How to implement an effective innovation process? What is strategic foresight? To discuss the topic, I invited Chris Kalaboukis, the optimistic futurist. We also discuss why we can't learn from the past and why all futurologists are like meteorologists. And where are all the Tamagotchis?

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