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.

What Big Data Can’t Tell You

Drawing on her work at research tech leader Vision Critical, Alex shows how the combination of social media and survey data challenges the conventional wisdom on what social media analytics can tell you—and offer a new framework for thinking about what questions big data can and can’t answer.

Telling Stories with Data

Whether you’re dealing with big data or smaller, more manageable “little data”, you need to be able to not only understand and learn from it, but tell effective stories with it. Alex maps out the steps to developing an effective data strategy, from the data you need to gather to the opportunities to turn it into compelling content that builds your audience and tells your story.