Join us for our guest speaker series kick off on Tuesday, January 19th with "a lover of remote work culture."
Kate Kendall, CEO of CloudPeeps - a newly-launched marketplace that connects businesses with remote community managers.
Kate will share her background and experience working remotely and managing a remote team. How do you start working remotely? What are some of the challenges remote freelancers and entrepreneurs face everyday? How do you build a cohesive culture across geography within your team and how do you keep everyone feeling connected?
More generally, we will hear about how the concept of remote work are changing our society and some of its biggest misconceptions.
Kate Kendall (http://katekendall.com/) is a San Francisco-based, British-Australian entrepreneur and writer. She’s the founder and CEO of CloudPeeps (http://cloudpeeps.com/) – a talent marketplace that matches businesses with the world’s top freelance marketing, content and community professionals. She also created The Fetch (http://thefetch.com/) – a curated guide to the best events and industry reads for professionals.
She started out as a business journalist and more recently, led growth and digital at magazine companies, handled outreach for new startups and helped businesses understand the role of community. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Quartz, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, The Australian, the ABC, Marie Claire, Lifehacker and more. General Assembly named her blog in the top 10 startup founder blogs to read (http://blog.generalassemb.ly/10-startup-founder-blogs-every-entrepreneur-should-read/) in 2014. Connect with her on Twitter via @katekendall (http://twitter.com/katekendall).
