by Lisette Sutherland | Nov 12, 2013 | Interviews, Remote Working
On 15 October, 2013, I had the pleasure of interviewing Gretchen Wegner and Wyatt Nevins. Gretchen is an academic life coach and Wyatt is one of her clients.They started working together at the end of Wyatt’s 7th grade year when his grades weren’t where he...
by Lisette Sutherland | Oct 26, 2013 | Interviews, Remote Working
Laura Rooke is one of the best remote technical support specialists you will ever hire. She and I worked together remotely for three years in what was for me, and for the company, an extremely successful remote working experience. Most of our clients had no idea that...
by Lisette Sutherland | Sep 2, 2013 | Collaboration, Interviews, Remote Working
Jeremy Stanton has been developing software since 1996, and working remotely since 2000 when the company he was working for moved to another city. The company saw no reason for Jeremy to move with them or for them to stop working together. They’d worked together...
by Lisette Sutherland | Aug 9, 2013 | Remote Working
I’ve had only great experiences with remote working. At Qtask, the team worked from all over the world in a way that still inspires me to this day. At GoLightly, we were a tight knit remote working machine. It was so seamless that most of our US clients...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jul 23, 2013 | Collaboration, Employee Engagement, Remote Working
My boyfriend and I went to Switzerland again for a holiday. The plan was to do some epic climbing, but it rained almost every day while we were there. Because we couldn’t climb, we did a lot of epic walking (and running) instead… which gave me a lot of...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jul 3, 2013 | Community Design, Happy Melly, Speaking
I had the opportunity to introduce Happy Melly at an Agile Lean Europe conference yesterday. It was an online conference and featured four speakers over two hours. A great idea if you ask me! I enjoyed seeing all the presentations, and Toni Tassani even drew notes....
by Lisette Sutherland | Jun 12, 2013 | Community Design, Community Management
For the last four years, I helped organizations and businesses design and set up private online communities. I was recently challenged to design an engagement strategy for customers of a new SaaS product. Naturally, I started to think about what the similarities and...
by Lisette Sutherland | May 23, 2013 | Speaking
I got myself involved with a few great conferences happening in the next couple of months. Will you be in the neighborhood? I would love to meet! TedxScheveningen – Den Haag, NL 24 May 2013 http://www.tedxscheveningen.nl/ I will be giving a workshop:...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 23, 2013 | Interviews, Remote Working
Dirk-Jan Padmos is an HR Consultant at Mazars, a company specializing in audit, accountancy, tax, legal and advisory services for organizations. He specializes in advising owner managed businesses on managing and structuring HR policies. A friend of mine suggested...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 11, 2013 | Collaboration, Community Design, Happy Melly
Last August, one of companies I worked with was sold. I was offered a position in the new company, but the role didn’t involve my core interests with online communities and remote collaboration. To make things more difficult, the position paid a very reasonable...
