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Pioneering Remote Work At A Non-Remote Company

Do you love your current role and employer but wish there were more flexibility? As the workplace shifts to a more widely accepted remote culture, asking your current employer for…

July 23, 2019 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend

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Do you love your current role and employer but wish there were more flexibility? As the workplace shifts to a more widely accepted remote culture, asking your current employer for more flexibility, be it going totally remote, flexible hours, or even specific work-from-home days is easier than you think! Join Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider for a virtual Q&A on how YOU can pioneer remote work at a non-remote company!



Meet the speaker

Sacha Connor

Sacha Connor

CEO

Sacha Connor is the Founder of Virtual Work Insider, a consultancy that coaches organizations to work seamlessly across any distance – with a specialty in training geographically distributed teams within companies and agencies, and Virtual Workforce ERG creation.

Sacha has 18 years of business leadership experience at a Fortune 500 company and also agency-side, and 8 years of experience leading large, distributed teams fully remotely.

As one of the first remote marketing directors, she led brands worth over $250M and sat on the leadership team for a $1 billion division at The Clorox Company. Sacha founded the first-ever Virtual Workforce Employee Resource Group which enabled inclusion across office sites, taught virtual work skills to over 750 global members, and influenced the C-suite about how to adapt for the future of work.

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