How to be productive when working remote

Working remotely is often a great way to work smarter, not harder. But what are the downsides? What can you do that will help your productivity?

The speaker shares their experience of working remotely for 5 years with their team (before the pandemic made it cool) and learns about how distractions and lack of distractions affected mental health and productivity - and how finding ways around these challenges has been crucial to success.

Remote work before it was cool.

Before 2020, anytime we mentioned that our team was remote, the response was typical of surprise and derision. "Oh, you can't afford an office"? "But, how do you make sure they're working?"

Are you tired of unnecessary meetings at the office? Dealing with daily disruption from open plan office design? Remote work is the way of the future!

At this talk, you will find out how our team has done this successfully while retaining, gaining and retraining a dedicated and loyal workforce.

Work Environments Built for Human

Neurodiversity is the recognition and respect of the wide range of human neurological differences. It includes but is not limited to people with ADHD, Executive Dysfunction Disorder, and PTSD. Neurodivergent individuals often face challenges in traditional work environments that are not designed to accommodate their needs.

Explore the speaker's own journey in creating a workplace that celebrates and embraces neurodiversity in the workplace and creates an environment that is built for all kinds of humans.

This session explores the nature of working from home and how a company doing this for 4 years prior to the pandemic changed the nature in which they onboard new team members. No prior experience is needed to attend this talk. Good for managers struggling with the new conditions of their teams spread across remote and office work.

Underestimated, invisible leadership.

It is an underestimated position of power to be the most invisible person in the room.

A talk on how to flip outrage and invisibility into outcome and visibility and win.

A journey into a critical and whimsical investigation of the speakers experience from invisible to visible leadership.

What PTSD can teach Artifical Intelligence

Can we teach the benefits of hyper-vigilance without experiencing or inflicting trauma? An exploration of how a trauma survivor can contribute to a safer world and how machines will help us get there quicker.

Key takeaways:
The future of work.
How to thrive through rapid change.
Language for success.

What to do with our unconscious bias.

Upgrade your skills on how to identify your own unconscious bias, when to challenge it, how to communicate it and best deal with the environment that doesn't match your perfect world scenario.

A journey into a critical and hysterical investigation of the speakers own personal unconscious bias across childhood experiences, education and careers.

You don’t need to be a manager help create safe space to question bias in your organisation.

R U OK? More than just a question

How we can all be a lifeline for ourselves and others in mental health.

Your the captain of a spaceship. Navigating the sometimes troublesome solar winds of mental health. What does it mean to be a lifeboat? How four steps can help equip everyone to be a lifeline in mental health.

Key takeaways:
4 steps of R U OK?

A Unicorns Guide on How to Human

Need to communicate in different environments with different personalities? A guide that will transform leadership into purpose, outcomes and values.

Are you the Phoenix, a creative visionary with a shiny object syndrome? A process-driven Sphinx who knows the devil is in the details? The versatile and flexible Centaur? or the Steady and secure Pegasus?

How does your personality shape the way you communicate with others?

Hacking Fear To Overcome It

A journey from someone who has lived in a constant state of fear for their whole life sharing the lifetime of mental hacks learnt along the way to push through and overcome fear and succeed as well as be the best person to have in a room when there's a crisis.

Agile from the front line.

A talk on how Agile/Scrum applied in a marketing agency has provided a better customer experience, better team experience, and fewer skills silos in the workplace.

A journey into a critical application of a typical tech industry standard in a non-tech creative space & the lessons learned from the front line about people over process.