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.

Airmeet

Online events platform that encourages immersive interactions and networking among attendees.

Virtual events break down geographic barriers to attendance. Stretch your event across time zones so participants can experience it live wherever they are. Leverage Airmeet and move above Vanilla Webinars, bring in the flavor of in-person events virtually.

Director GTM & Operations (3S: Success | Service | Support)

The Remote Life

TRAVEL THE WORLD ONE MONTH AT A TIME

The Remote Life is a remote work program that brings together professionals, freelancers and entrepreneurs to work, live and travel . We take care of the research, organization, and booking of your private bedroom, desk space, and travel tickets so you can see the world, without leaving your work.

www.theremotelife.com

Founder

The Remote Work Summit

Panel of industry leaders from Facebool, Microsoft, Evernote, Buffer, WordPress (Automattic), Github, Trello, Zapier, Toptal, Appirio, Helpscout, Treehouse, Liquidspace, WomenWhoCode, Tortuga, Kayako, Mailbird, Skillcrush, Flexjobs and Todoist and many more.

The Remote Work Summit hosted online (remote) was a virtual conference with near-live interviews and plenty of resources for entrepreneurs, people managers & remote job seekers. 

The annual summit attracts a global audience of 12000+ from US, Australia, India, UK, Canada, South Africa and 8 other nations.

Creator - Producer

Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC)

YLACs Policy In Action program aims to increase the participation of young people in the democratic process and build their capacity to lead change.

Currently, well educated and eligible people don't want to join politics for they think they are not directly affected by it, or that since they do not work in a “government” job position, they don’t need to care.

Worked on the 'Implementation of Street vendor Act, 2013' under Mr. Husain Dalwai (MP, Rajya Sabha). Drafted the policy which can help bridge the gap in the implementation of the above law using secondary research and consultation with the stakeholders.

Public Policy Fellow

Fragmentsbot

Fragments is an AI powered personal assistant that remembers everything for you, so you don't have to. 

Think of the tons of things you have to store in your head everyday or scribble down in your diary, a note taking app or your calendar. Causes a headache every time I think about it. And I forget most of the things! Like the name of that interesting designer I met last week. Or my own WiFi password. 

I tell it all to Fragments. Helps me offload the stress and info so I can spend my time doing better things than just training my brain to remember it all!

Growth Hacker

Truelancer.com

Customer Success Manager

Hero MotoCorp Ltd

Territory Service Manager

Dana Holding Corporation

Production Intern

Triggering conversations every day to boost !nnovation

Location-independent Founder of The Remote Life. Peddling freedom and demonstrating ways of integrating work and life. Producer of the world’s largest remote work conference. Currently working with Airmeet and curating online events and conferences. Open to conversations about the future of events and remote work.

Nitin Pratap

taplio

The Battle

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