Rapidly Remote?
Let us help you keep productivity up (& your sanity) during this time of transition.
Leadership Training for Virtual & Remote Work.
Capabilities for the Future.
When Virtual Leadership Is Done Right, Every Person, Purpose and Profit Grows.
Companies have never been more distributed, with offices and teams spread across the country and the globe. Virtual Work Insider personally coaches teams, executives and companies to thrive across any distance. As the first to establish virtual business driving practices within one of the most respected Fortune 500 companies — we provide the skills and tools to lead, influence and strengthen ties with geographically distributed teams, clients and direct reports. Our 18 years of experience within client-side companies, advertising agencies, and managing external partners, is incomparable. See more…
“I saw first-hand that geographically distributed companies were struggling to achieve business growth and inclusion, so I designed a new way to fully drive results and integrate employees.”
Sacha Connor, Founder and Lead Consultant
Virtual Work Matters More Every Day.
Insider Knowledge Makes a Difference Immediately.
70%
of professionals work remotely at least once a week
CNBC
+20–30%
productivity improvement of distributed teams with the right process and tools.
McKinsey & Company
A New Kind of Modern Leadership is Required
Leaders and Teams Need the Skills to be Effective and Efficient Virtually.
Virtual Work Leadership Training
We specialize in personalized group, or one-to-one, coaching programs to develop the skills to lead and influence virtual teams, manage client and agency virtual relationships, and coach remote direct reports.
Virtual Employee Resource Group
We’ll personally help you create, lead and establish a Virtual Workforce ERG to increase effectiveness and inclusion within your distributed company, coordinating and concentrating the efforts of your D&I, HR, IT, Real Estate and Business strategies.
Speaking
Services
Opening your eyes is the hardest part — to the fact that the workplace is now virtual, that people are spread across office sites with some fully remote, but mostly, that a perspective change is required to succeed in this new reality.
“Sacha was a pioneer of remote work at Clorox; she successfully led a marketing organization and participated on the homecare leadership team while working over 3000 miles away for more than 8 years.”
Chris Hyder
Vice President, General Manager
Additional Services
Negotiating Remote
Make the right virtual case with an Insider Strategy.
Lead
Plug us in to run your virtual meetings, brainstorming sessions and conferences.
Partner
Introduce us to your new tech platform, tool or software for remote work—so that we can share it with our clients and our following.
Our experience can help you experience the best possible future for your company.
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Don't spend time searching for work from home jobs. You can keep the job that you love, but do it remotely - if you have the right plan to influence the right people. I was a remote work pioneer for The Clorox Company - one of the very first fully remote brand...
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I graduated from Lehigh in ’00 with a degree in marketing and have continued to stay close to the department over the last twenty years through guest lecturing and other opportunities. The school has continued to support my ambitions, first as a marketer, and now as I build my virtual leadership training and remote work consulting business, Virtual Work Insider.
📣 Coming in November: My #ExecutiveEducation course for Lehigh University's Vistex Institute for Executive Learning & Research - Virtual Leadership: Essential Skills for Leading a Hybrid and Remote Workforce, Now and Post-COVID will be given again in November. More details to come!
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Panelists:
🎤Eric Schuetzler: Global VP of R&D, Beam Suntory. Even prior to COVID he recognized the need create location inclusion across his different R&D sites & his leadership team has championed role modeling the right behaviors. Fortuitously his entire team completed our training series right before COVID!
🎤Mardi Kaplan: Training & Development Manager, Toyota Financial Services. Their salesforce was in the middle of the transition to fully remote when COVID hit. She and her team have been instrumental in supporting the salesforce with skills & tools to work remotely, including having us & our partners at Workplaceless execute a combo of instructor-led training & e-learning.
🎤 Kyra De St. Paer: Director of Marketing, The Clorox Company. She is a keen business leader and an amazing remote leadership role model. Together Kyra and Sacha pioneered remote work at Clorox & co-founded the first-ever virtual workforce employee resource group.
Sign up for the free event using the link in the comments.
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