Valentina Thörner – remote leadership

In this episode with Valentina Thörner (pronounced Turner), we talked about the following:

• She explained why remote working has changed during the pandemic.
• During the hiring period at Automattic, you are not talking to a live person.
• People who like to be at the office, but hate the commute to the office.
• People who want to work from home, not because they hate people, but because they love their life.
• Why becoming a parent changed her view and experience with habits and productivity.
• The guilt of wanting to be more productive.
• The shift from now I am at home and now I am working from home has a lot to do with habit creation.
• The remote leadership radar
• Our brains are not wired for a remote world, our brains would like to people in person.
• Have places where people can virtually meet with people on hobbies and other topics.
• Onboarding in a remote and distributed environment and how many people you want in the network for new employees where they can ask questions.
• A community of neighbors that help each other during the kids’ holiday breaks from school.
• As a leader, you want to stimulate the hobbies of your team members.
• Create a community for yourself to meet people having fun with, without being in a dating environment.

Valentina Thörner is a remote leadership expert, supporting tech companies at the executive level to create a distributed reality that works for the entire team. She has over a decade of experience in coaching and mentoring managers who understand that leading remote teams requires new skills – skills that can be learned. She runs on trails to think

You can find Valentina Thörner here:

Watch her talk at Business of software in 2023

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