Danny Smith

Consultant

Armakuni

Pole Star EAM

Chief Operations Officer

Oyster®

Consultant - Remote Workplace Design & People Ops

Delocate (acquired by Oyster)

Principal Consultant

RED Academy

VP Technology

Global Curriculum Director, Technology

Lead Instructor

Ada. National College for Digital Skills

Curriculum Designer & Lecturer

CharlieHR

Senior Software Engineer

Sparta Global

I wore *a lot* of hats as we grew from a 3-employee startup to 80+ folks

All Sorts

Royal Air Force Air Cadets

Adjutant, Central Training Team, HQ RAFAC

COO & Consultant | Creating high-performance remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍

I work with leaders to intentionally design remote organisations & ways of working, laying the foundations for rapid scaling, long-term organisational health, and a globally distributed workforce.

I spent 2021 at Oyster, scaling their fully-remote (globally distributed) company from 14 to 500 people (and a $1bn valuation). Which was absolutely wild.

I work mostly at the intersection of system design, human behaviour, remote work & operations. I'm convinced that knowledge work has no borders and the "remote work revolution" has the power to make the world a fairer and more equal place for everyone. Globally distributed companies are the future.  And the remote workplace should be diverse, safe & supportive for all.

I talk about "Organisational Health" a lot because healthy orgs feel calm when ploughing through unknown waters at 1000mph and can operate on the edge of chaos without being chaotic: much better for our people, and our business. Since systemic health problems have a disproportionately large effect on distributed remote teams (and quickly compound with scale), I'm on a mission to help folks be more intentional about how they design & transform remote-first orgs.

➡️ Read more on this → https://danny.is/writing/organisational-health

I love meeting new folks, so hit me up if you wanna chat 🙂☎️

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Wanna learn about remote best practices? 👇

· Oyster Reef → https://oysterhr.notion.site/Welcome-to-The-Reef-Oyster-s-Open-Source-Employee-Guide-fc482e3f107c4afd8c85ed217f1d0c1d
· Some tiny remote working tips → https://danny.is/remote

If you've read this far you *might* be interested to know...

· I've a sporadic sideline in personal coaching and team facilitation.
· I used to be a software engineer, but realised I have a much bigger impact when I help others do their thing better. And now that's my thing. (I still code, but just for fun.)
· Before that I was a blues musician. I still perform and jam lots: music has this weird ability to transcend language and cultural barriers.
· I'm a generalist. Obviously. Sorry not sorry.


In the past, my desire to "make work better for everyone" saw me doing:

· Education → curriculum design, learning design, teaching etc.
· Engineering process → DevOps, architecture etc
· Agile coaching & delivery process (SAFe still gives me nightmares).
· Design systems before they were hip.

Javier Llerena 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Distinguished Fellow Coach 

Re-Invent Consulting

WHAT I DO

I help executive teams solve performance problems through custom-designed workshops that spark connection, alignment, and clear action. From Fortune 500s to fast-moving nonprofits, my facilitation delivers strategic clarity and team cohesion.

I specialize in:

✅ 40% increase in cross-functional collaboration within 2 months (tech company)
✅ Reduced meeting time by 30% through a trust-building workshop (nonprofit)
✅ 100% of workshop attendees report feeling “more aligned and motivated”

WHY IT MATTERS

🚀 Misalignment and inefficiencies are costly. Unclear priorities, poor collaboration, and disengagement slow innovation, hurt productivity, and lead to burnout. I help teams move from frustration to flow by equipping them with tools to work smarter, communicate effectively, and make decisions faster.

HOW IT WORKS

🔍 Assessment & Strategy Session – We identify key challenges and define clear goals.
🎯 Customized Workshop Facilitation – I design interactive, tailored sessions for real-world impact.
🔄 Follow-Through & Reinforcement – I provide tools, coaching, and accountability to sustain progress.

My facilitation is hands-on, immersive, and action-oriented—no fluff, just actual results.

RESULTS & IMPACT

📈 Helped organizations increase collaboration by 40%, leading to faster project execution.
🏆 Facilitated leadership sessions that improved decision-making speed by 30%.
🔹 Worked with tech, nonprofit, and corporate teams to enhance leadership effectiveness and team cohesion.

READY TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE AND SOLVE PROBLEMS?

📩 Let’s talk. Email me at jllerena@re-invent.consulting or connect via LinkedIn.

Executive Facilitator ►Workshop Creator►Leadership Development 

Positive Leadership Academy Podcast

As the host of the Positive Leadership Academy Podcast, I lead thought-provoking conversations with leaders, innovators, and changemakers who are shaping the future of leadership. This podcast is a platform for exploring practical strategies, personal growth insights, and leadership breakthroughs that help individuals and organizations thrive.

What We Cover:
🎙 Leadership & Influence – Insights from top leaders on how to inspire and empower teams.
🎙 Personal Growth & Mindset – Strategies to develop resilience, confidence, and clarity.
🎙 Organizational Success – Best practices for building a positive, high-performance culture.

Each episode is designed to equip listeners with actionable takeaways to enhance their leadership skills and create lasting impact in their workplaces and communities.

Join me on this journey to lead with purpose, transform challenges into opportunities, and build a brighter future—one conversation at a time.

📩 Interested in being a guest or collaborating? Let’s connect!

Co-Host Podcaster 

Boundless Love, Inc (Nonprofit Ministry)

WHAT WE DO: At Boundless Love, we understand the daily challenges of marriage and support couples in actively bringing God to the forefront of their marriage. We support their respective pre-marriage and post-marriage journeys by offering services that inspire, heal, and offer reflective time with God and one another.

WHY IT MATTERS: 💥 What are the main ingredients of a fulfilled and healthy marriage? We say, faith, your personal healing, and living out God’s plan--together. It’s no easy ride but with God--anything is possible. No challenge is insurmountable.

OUR STORY:  Taking time to pray and intentionally envision and design your future brings greater awareness of and appreciation for your life. By inviting the Holy Spirit to guide us, our relationships deepen and our strengths and talents magnify. It is our birthright as children of God to have a life that brings healing into our lives.

SERVICES WE PROVIDE: Our Boundless Love ministry supports couples with:

💡 Marriage and Relationship Coaching
💡 Pre-Marriage Spiritual Guidance
💡 In-person workshops
💡 Speaking

HOW IT WORKS: When you consciously plan your future, you pave the road for your deepest intentions to be fulfilled and deepen your relationship by opening yourself to Boundless Love. In our workshops, we create a deeper conversation with prayer, reflection, and a dialogue of inquiry that leads to a reassuring connection with God and your future.

READY TO TALK? 
☎ Book a clarity call here : https://boundlesslove.us/schedule/

Co-Founder

WHAT WE DO: Over the years, my wife and I have helped more than 1,000 couples prepare for marriage. 

WHY IT MATTERS: 💗  Boundless Love includes our personal invitation to bring your faith into your marriage before you actually say “I do,” and our promise that what God has in store for your marriage is far better than anything you can create or imagine on our own.

OUR STORY: 👫 In "Boundless Love: Healing Your Marriage Before It Begins," my wife Christina Llerena and I share an intimate account of our relationship—one that has been transformed through faith—and the lessons we have learned as we’ve weathered life’s storms together.

HOW IT WORKS: 🙌  Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or married, "Boundless Love" provides you with a spiritually based path you can walk in order to prepare your heart, mind, and soul for a relationship that heals you, blesses you, connects you, and inspires you.

READY TO READ? 📚

Check out our book at : shorturl.at/cqKQT

Co-Author of Boundless Love "Healing Your Marriage Before It Begins" 

Marriage can be the best thing or the worst thing that ever happens to us.

Join Christina and Javier Llerena, published authors of “Boundless Love: Healing Your Marriage Before It Begins” delve into the complexities and intrigue of what makes a marriage healthy, healing, and happy.

Each episode contains powerful information to help you grow in your relationship, build your faith, increase your intimacy, and expertly navigate good times and bad.

Listen to our latest episode here: https://anchor.fm/boundlesslove

Podcast Co-Host "Cafecito for Two" 

Growthspace

GrowthSpace was founded on the belief that successful talent development benefits individuals and drives business outcomes. 

Leveraging the world’s most robust talent development dataset and network of global experts, GrowthSpace helps employees and organizations drive successful professional growth at scale. 

Hundreds of customers realize the GrowthSpace platform's benefits, including Siemens, Microsoft, EY, Johnson & Johnson, Zoominfo, and Lightspeed.

Top Accomplishments: 

➤ Acknowledged as a preeminent authority in "Crafting Your Leadership Style," boasting a stellar 4.7 out of 5 rating from a diverse spectrum of professionals, spanning individual contributors, novice managers, and mid-level executives.

➤ Spearheads initiatives to amplify employee engagement through targeted mentorship programs tailored for managers and high-potential individuals, resulting in remarkable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

➤ Cultivates a culture of leadership development and fosters a growth-oriented mindset across multiple domains, including team dynamics, performance optimization, change management, productivity enhancement, client rapport, and public speaking prowess.

➤ Collaborates closely with Human Resources (HR) and Learning and development (L&D) departments to design and implement bespoke workshops focusing on self-leadership techniques and strategies for unlocking untapped potential.

Leadership Coach and Workshop Facilitator 

BetterUp

BetterUp provides holistic, evidence-based coaching to support professionals at all levels of an organization. Through a sophisticated talent development platform and a worldwide portfolio of exceptional coaches, BetterUp allows companies to deliver personalized coaching to develop the insight, skills and behaviors that allow managers and executives to thrive personally and professionally.

Premier Fellow Coach

Group Coaching 

Fellow Coach 

Associate Coach

Sharpist

Sharpist is on a journey to deliver measurable business outcomes to its global enterprise clients, through a digital people development solution that founds on 1:1 coaching.

As Europe's leading solution for people development, Sharpist marries the individual employee's needs for personalized learning with the demand for worldwide scalability of global organizations such as Axel Springer, STRABAG, and Porsche.
To achieve this "personalization at scale" Sharpist bets on unparalleled user engagement. This engagement derives from combining a 1:1 human coaching offer with a digital learning journey that makes personal growth transparent and gamifies the development experience, just like Apple Health or Strava are doing in their particular domains.

Sharpist has a unique advantage in the personalization of its learning offer, as our coaches educate machine learning algorithms that ultimately design our users' life-long learning journeys.
The heart of our product is a mobile app that combines the 1:1 coaching sessions and learning journeys with additional features such as a goals assessment to further tailor the coach-coachee-matching.

Ultimately, Sharpist aggregates information on individual coaching on a corporate dashboard to demonstrate company-level insights and measurable RoI to its client organizations.
Hence, our offer is not just more effective than other digital learning offers, it is also much more transparent and measurable than traditional offline approaches to people development.

Executive and Leadership Coach 

ALMA (ACADEMIA LATINOAMERICANA DE METODOLOGÍAS APRECIATIVAS)

WHAT WE DO AND WHAT WE DO IT FOR

We design and facilitate large-scale, high-purpose collaborations using the latest research in Appreciative Inquiry, Mindfulness, Design Thinking, High-Purpose Leadership, and Positive Organizational Development.

We accompany people, organizations, and communities to identify their strengths and commit to their purpose, to create a shared vision of a flourishing future, using the 5D's cycle of Appreciative Inquiry.

We have partnered with leading experts in Appreciative Inquiry, Mindfulness, and Positive Organizational Change to bring the best techniques and practical resources to today's business and community leaders.

Co-Founder / Faculty Member 

Huenei IT Services

Huenei  is a global Custom Premium Software Development company.

At Huenei, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking differently with curious and agile mindset. The way we challenge the status quo is by co-creating exceptional software solutions that help our customers to accelerate their own digital transformation. 
We just happened to help to turn our customers´ ideas into reality. 

As a Business Development leader, my objective is to help Huenei clients in the US Western Region define and execute their digital and software development strategy.

Business Development Partner

CLL Consulting

CLL Consulting is a private college counseling firm committed to helping students gain admission to colleges and universities, boarding/prep schools, or graduate schools. 
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To accomplish this, we counsel our students in selecting appropriate schools and coach them on crafting powerful applications.

The philosophy that guides and motivates us in our college counseling work is the belief that all students can find an appropriate college where they can be successful academically, extracurricular and socially. Through their experiences, they can mature, develop confidence, and reach their ultimate goals and aspirations.

Strategic Advisor

Wider Circle

WiderCircle is a health services company focused on developing a nationwide program for active seniors to increase longevity by improving mobilization, socialization and sense of purpose. This program aims to alleviate loneliness and increase mental and physical health.  Our research-based program enables active older adults to make connections, boost activity, and engage more joyfully in life.

As a Senior Facilitator and Learning Development Specialist, I was tasked in creating a framework using strength-based workshop tailored to senior citizenship. Helped develop training material for trainees and increased the efficiency of the facilitation process.

Senior Facilitator ►Learning and Development Specialist (CONTRACTOR)

I empower leaders to cultivate team dialogues that foster confidence, collaboration, and psychological safety.

Is your team stuck in silos, playing it safe, or struggling to innovate?

I’m Javier Llerena—Executive Facilitator, Leadership Coach, and the founder of Re-Invent Consulting. I design high-impact, custom workshops that unlock trust, ignite engagement, and drive measurable results for teams.

With over 30 years of executive leadership experience, I’ve walked in your shoes. I know how hard it is to get a team aligned, especially in hybrid or high-growth environments. That’s why I bring proven frameworks, real human connection, and powerful facilitation to shift teams from friction to flow.

What I Help Leaders Achieve:
🔹 Strengthen team trust and psychological safety
🔹 Improve decision-making and communication
🔹 Unlock creativity and innovation through engagement
🔹 Create team alignment around vision and execution

My clients range from nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies—and all of them want one thing: to build teams that work smarter, communicate clearly, and lead boldly.

💡 Whether you're planning a leadership retreat, an innovation sprint, or just need a reset on team culture—I’ll help you create a powerful experience that sticks.

Let’s co-create something transformational.

📩 jllerena@re-invent.consulting
🌐 www.re-invent.consulting
📅 Book a Clarity Call: https://meetings.hubspot.com/llerena/discovery-call-

Professional Development Facilitator ►Leadership and Mental Fitness Coach► Workshop Creator

WHAT I DO: As a Transformational Leadership Development expert and a virtual facilitator experience maker, I help leaders and organizations create positive change! It’s that simple. My objective is to help leaders optimize their mission and maximize their growth by increasing profit, employee retention, ongoing sustainability while creating a positive company culture shift.

WHY IT MATTERS: 💥 Positive organizational change creates internal best practices, bringing together resources that initiate change within an organization. Improving these processes can be the key to unlocking the potential for your organization.

Such changes improve staff morale, levels of engagement, and communication, which all lends itself to a positive environment of productivity, effective processes, and higher retention of employees. This can be applied for the individual level all the way to the system (organization,)

 MY STORY: 👤 I am a passionate and resilient entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in bringing out the best in individuals and driving organizations to exponential growth. I thrive on coaching and facilitating inquiry-based conversations with individuals and groups that lead to endless positive changes in their organization. I am always learning new techniques and partnering with fellow consultants, coaches, and transformational facilitators to create a movement of cutting-edge organizations.

HOW IT WORKS: We start with a complimentary strategic session via Zoom to discuss your needs. We provide a detailed review of your current challenges, opportunities, and aspirations. We offer strategies for exponential outcomes regarding identity, resilience, and peer and systems change.

READY TO TALK? 

☎ Reach out to me directly on LinkedIn or email me at jllerena@re-invent.consulting

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