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Whether you’re developing a plan to reopen your office or seeking skills and inspiration for your hybrid team, Alexandra can help. Her keynotes and trainings help organizations find a balance between office and remote work, build common expectations among employees and teams, and get excited about the possibilities for remote work outside of a pandemic.
A passionate, authentic speaker
Alexandra was a pleasure to work with and always responsive. The webinar audience comments were overwhelmingly positive. I highly recommend her as a speaker for your next event!
Kristen Klein,
Head of Customer & Americas Field Marketing at Zoom
KEYNOTES ON HYBRID + REMOTE WORK
How to thrive in a world of hybrid + remote work
Transform your team’s relationship to hybrid and remote work with a keynote presentation that shares the insights from Remote, Inc., the ultimate guide to productivity for distributed teams. Learn:
- How to plan for the success of your hybrid team as the office reopens.
- The three essential skills everyone needs when working remotely.
- How to foster connection, culture and productivity as part of a hybrid team.
Alex tailors every one of her remote work talks to the culture and challenges of your industry or organization.
Contact us today to find out how to book your online or in-person event.
Selected speeches
After the Office: Reinventing Collaboration for a World of Remote Work
The modern business meeting solves a very real problem—if it’s still 1961. Back then, a face-to-face meeting saved a lot of time and labor and Wite-Out, because the only other way to exchange ideas was by getting your secretary to type it up, mail it out, and wait for a response.
The meeting stuck around long after new technologies made other ways of work feasible. The overnight shift to remote work has made those new ways necessary—and invited us to radically rethink the balance between individual and group work.
In this engaging presentation, veteran remote worker and author Alexandra Samuel will show you how embracing that opportunity will not only help your team thrive during the pandemic, but position your organization to be even more successful in the years ahead.
The Business of One: Finding Joy in Remote Work
It’s not enough to just stay sane while you’re working from home: Your team deserves the chance to thrive and excel. But that won’t happen as long as they’re trying to replicate the lives they lived at the office, and wondering where the heck to find the break room.
Data journalist and entrepreneur Alexandra Samuel invites your remote team to embrace a new approach to working remotely, based on the key habits she identified through her research on both new and longstanding remote workers. These habits release employees from the hopeless effort to reproduce the benefits of the workplace, and instead, discover the untapped benefits of working from home.
In a real-time workshop led from Samuel’s WFH studio, your team will try on a new remote work mindset that shifts the way they think about time, tools, and care-taking. They’ll find a new balance between collaborative and solo work, and between work and personal time, gaining a renewed energy for their working lives.
ALEX ON STAGE
A memorable voice
on the digital world
Alex’s presentations on hybrid + remote work build on her long experience delivering data-driven keynotes that help audiences make the most of the digital workplace—and the digital world.
In her two decades as a business and tech speaker, Alex has delighted audiences with keynotes and presentations on…
- How to tell stories with data
- The sharing economy
- How social media drives purchasing
- Stop apologizing for your online life
View these highlights from Alex’s past talks to get a taste of the energy she brings to live events and presentations.
Selected appearances
Reinventing Remote, Zoom customer webinar
Remote teams + clients, keynote for the Ontario Association of Architects
Telling Stories with Data, NTEN Leading Change Summit
The Internet: What To Pack, TEDxSFU
5 Tips for Stranded Evangelists, Educational Technology Users Group
Meet your Invisible Audience, Canadian Public Relations Society National Conference
Finding your Way in Social Media, International Women in Media Speaker Series
Social Media in 3 Hours a Week, North American Wholesale Lumber Association
10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life, TEDxVictoria
Getting Closer to the Collaborative Economy Customer, Collaborative Economy Conference
IRL: In Real Life, Social Media Shift 2
How Social Media Drives Consumer Decisions, LeadingRE Conference
Coping with Social Media, Northern Voice
About Alex
Alexandra Samuel is an expert on remote work and the digital workplace. A speaker, data journalist and author, she has spent much of her twenty-five year career as a remote worker. In her new book, Remote Inc., she uses her wealth of personal experience to help us conceptualize a new approach to working in the modern age. Her must-listen talks show us how to thrive outside the office, using the entrepreneurial mindset and habits of remote professionals.
A regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, the CBC, and JSTOR Daily, Samuel is a prolific writer whose articles on remote work, digital productivity, and tech culture have earned extensive media coverage. The author of the Work Smarter with Social Media series for Harvard Business Review Press, Samuel has long experience helping people make effective use of technology to enhance their personal productivity. More than five thousand students have taken her Skillshare class, Work Smarter with Your Inbox, and she was the lead social media expert for the Web Fuelled Business training program, which trained thousands of entrepreneurs across the UK. A featured expert on Google’s Digital Wellbeing site, Samuel speaks to both the personal and business impact of technology in her keynotes and workshops.
Samuel began her career in technology as the research director for the Governance in the Digital Economy program, leading a Toronto-based research program for a global consortium of government leaders from her home office in Vancouver. As the VP Social Media for customer intelligence software company Vision Critical, Samuel led a social media analytics pilot program while working from home so she could homeschool her autistic son. And as the co-founder of Social Signal, Samuel built one of the world’s first social media agencies while working out of her home with her husband and their first hires. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, where her dissertation was the first comprehensive study of hacktivism (politically motivated computer hacking).
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