Ultimate Beauty

Ultimate Beauty is a fast-growing, people-first, fully remote organization. Our purpose is to enable our team members to live their best life, while doing this "business thing" really really well.

As Chief People Officer, I'm responsible for developing a world-class culture as we 10x our business. This means I get to play with radical, leading-edge concepts such as Remote Work, Unique Ability, EOS, and Best life Coaching.

The bigger goal is to first prove we can have a couple hunded people live their best lives, while delivering outsized results.. -> And then share our learnings to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work.

Chief People Officer

Running Remote

Community Member

The Future is Remote

Ex-management consultant/entrepreneur/leader → turned Remote Evangelist. On a mission to inspire, educate & coach individuals, teams & organizations to succeed in a remote world.

20-30 minute conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and doers of Remote Work. 

Highlighted episodes
🎙 Humanizing Remote w/ Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist (https://spoti.fi/3U7N8b7)
🎙 The Benefits of Remote Work w/ Tony Jamous, Founder @ Oyster (https://spoti.fi/3hd1TL7)
🎙 Asynchronous Work w/ Nicolas Cava, Engineering Manager @ Zendesk (https://spoti.fi/3h36QWE)

Podcast Host / Remote Evangelist

Beleco

70% of companies are already hybrid (intentional or not). However most companies do not know how to realize the benefits (up to 50% reduced cost, while increasing productivity and engagement)

Beleco helps companies with the transition to Hybrid, through subscription based furniture for Offices and Home Offices. 

As Head of Hybrid I lead our internal Hybrid Transformation, and act as a thought leader with the wider community. 

As VP of Sales, I am  building a World Class Sales Organisation, to help our customers with their Hybrid Transformation, and create great workplaces for their employees - wherever they are.

Head of Hybrid / VP of Sales

NetSuite

Sales Manager, Nordic Startup & Scale-up segment. 
Led the turnaround of an underperfoming sales team of 11 remote account executives.

Sales Manager, Nordics

Google

Leading Google's engagement with startups across Northern Europe (Nordics & Benelux) 
- Grew function by >120% to 42M ARR
- Managed Google's portfolio of top 10 Scaleups to help drive hypergrowth (~200% YoY)
- Engaged with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem to support top 100 startups at scale

🚀 Head of Startups, Northern Europe

- Account Executive for Spotify, one of Google Cloud's top 3 customers globally (>300M ARR)
- Grew product adoption -> account revenue by 57%
- Led team of 16 cross-functional Googlers (Stockholm, New York, Dublin)

Account Executive, Top Account, Google Cloud

Business developer responsible for larger technology partners in Northern Europe and FRITES. Worked with two of Sweden's most exciting startups, helping them develop world class ad-tech products. 

Responsible for progressing and closing the largest deal in Channel Sales EMEA history.

Strategic Partner Developer, Channel Sales

- Helped Secure 50M SEK investment form Norrsken Foundation
- Hired and managed product and tech team
- Responsible for product strategy and development

Head of Product

Kugghuset AB

- Responsible for Future Labs (Product development hub)
- Managed design and development of a sales competition tool for Bambora
- Implemented internal sales pipeline & dashboards
- Trained colleagues in relationship driven sales

Product Developer

Seed Nordic

Startup Accelerator / Startup Factory

- Invested in 3 startups and led them through a 4 month program (1 exit) 
- Delivered startup-as-a-service innovation projects (6 weeks from idea to first paying customer)

Sample projects:
- Bambora Growth Capital
- Butlr
- Pimobo
- Frameworks
- NYFoodBox
- GetSocial

CEO / Product Developer

Serendipity

Serendipity Innovations was a management company with specialist expertise in innovation processes and early corporate development. 

- As a business developer I supported clients with their innovation needs, while continuously identifying establishing and growing new businesses.
- I was the initiator of S:Growth Accelerator, which we spun off and renamed Seed Nordic.

Business Developer

Head of Hybrid @ Beleco 🏡👨‍💻 Subscription based furniture for office and home office 📢 Remote Evangelist 🌟

🚀 On a mission to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work
🌟 Strategic thinker with 19 years experience across consulting, technology, commercial & people roles. 

Chief People Officer at Ultimate Beauty, ensuring that our people are happy, healthy engaged and able to do great work remotely.

🎙️ Podcast Host for "The Future is Remote", I engage in insightful conversations with industry leaders and thinkers in the remote work landscape.

Kenneth Hellem

Remote Works Book

At Remote Works we know remote work is here to stay, but we believe that it puts a magnifying glass on all aspects of an organization: the good, bad and the ugly. Band-aid solutions and emergency transition plans marked 2020 as the year of surviving with pandemic #WFH solutions globally. The future, however, will be about thriving because of remote work.

Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus (Dropping 2/7/2023) will offer managers an insider glimpse at how to lead remotely from two experts who have been doing it way before COVID entered our vocabulary, we provide hands-on exercises, reflection questions, and expert stories from the field. 

Want more? We also offer speaking engagements, workshops, and online classes for your remote teams.

Co-Author // Co-Founder

Oyster®

Support the employee experience and remote work community with a goal to educate individuals and companies on Remote Work best practices.

Accomplishments Included: 
- Supported the employee experience and remote work community through the development of educational content in the form of video interviews, case studies, and thought leadership on remote work for the Oyster Blog.
- Strategic and project manager for a 3-part speaker series with seven industry leaders on the Future of Talent Acquisition as well as the internal Oyster Bridges event (December 2020). Developed themes for each event, managed speaker relations, sign-ups, and promotions, and created content pre-, during, and post-show. Created their Distributed Discussions Podcast Series, with five episodes featuring remote work and people operations advocates and experts.

Head of Culture and Community 

DuckDuckGo

Roles at DuckDuckGo: Functional team lead for five People Ops professionals; Strategic Director for company objectives focused on gender diversity, employee satisfaction, scaling teams, and setting internal standards.

Responsible for Human Resource activities such as conflict resolution, employee relations, total benefits analysis (including health benefits, family leave, and learning & wellness benefits), professional feedback and promotions, and writing a company code of conduct that resonates with a culturally diverse and distributed team. 

In my day-to-day:
Coaches hiring managers on job role design and specifications to hire, behavioral interviewing skills, and making hiring decisions. 

Consults with leadership on an organizational structure, team engagement, and individual expectations. 

Plans company and team retreats, and meetups to facilitate trust and enhance team performance. 

Regularly analyzes employee engagement through general observations, company and team survey's, and 1-1 interviews; uses information to make recommendations on future strategic and tactical activities. 

Accomplishments: 
Created a streamlined hiring and recruitment process that resulted in doubling the company size and growing gender diversity over 130% in three years. 

DuckDuckGo is a Remote First Company.

Director, People Operations

Ali Greene _ Independent Consultant 

Consulted with companies on their People Operation needs. Main clients included Undertone and DuckDuckGo. 

Developed training curriculum and course content including writing technical manuals, presentations, activity instructions, and “train the trainer” information. Lead a wide variety of training courses, team meetings, and individual coaching support, both in person and remote.

Human Resources Consultant

Undertone

Managed employee development for Client Services, Planning, and Insights teams in the NYC Office and remote. 

Conducted needs analysis to recommend course of action in professional development topics. Analyzed feedback on training courses to determine next steps and training trends in the organization.

Project manager for new training programs from ideation to delivery, including onboarding programs, leadership training, and competency based interview skills. Responsible for developing core leadership training for all managers.

Training Specialist

LivingSocial

As a Sales Strategy and Operations Specialist I spent my time overseeing and ensuring smooth roll-out of systems and tools improvements, sales initiatives, and internal competitions. I worked with remote salespeople globally, as well as a distributed team throughout the various offices to complete project work.

Sales Strategy and Operations

As a senior member on the Deal Quality and Programming team I took the initiative to spearhead many internal operational programs. Leading people through project brainstorming, testing, and roll-out. I analyzed trends while gaining deep local understanding of markets, merchants and performance of daily deal concepts. I informally managed interns and more junior employees, supported global onboarding initiatives, and hiring efforts.

Senior Research Analyst / Team Lead

Nike

Successfully completed two consecutive internships in the Talent and Development Team at Nike's global headquarters. As a critical team member, I was contributed to the redesign of core employee development programs including training for new retail managers and leaders who work distributed in their local Nike stores.

Learning Specialist

Remote work literally changed my life... ask me how! 

My mission is to empower people and companies, helping them thrive by making work (and life!) better. In 2022 and 2023, I was named a Top 50 "Remote Accelerator" by Remote, a "Top Remote Work Influencer in USA" in 2023 by Virtual MQ, as well as a "Must-Follow Remote Work Experts in 2023" by Gusto. 

I believe flexible work (when done right) has the potential to change the world. I know because it changed my life. From rolling out company benefits while slurping ramen in Tokyo, to managing an organization re-structure from beaches in Spain, my unique point of view and solution-oriented mindset will enable you to achieve remote work success, regardless of where (or what) your "office" looks like.

Most recently, I shared my lived experiences as a remote work leader (since 2014) in my book Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility and Focus (Published by Berrett-Koehler; Distributed by Penguin Random House Internationally). Grab your copy here 👉 https://a.co/d/hfiJLVt

Get in touch with me for workshops to improve your remote work fluency. Topics include: 
💬 Async Communication Training
⏰ Productivity & Energy Management Training
🌀 Blueprint Workshop: Accountability, Goal-Setting, and Priorities for Remote Teams 
❤️ Living Your Remote Values Workshop
📝 Team Charter Workshop

I am also available for speaking engagements on the following topics:
✅ Remote Work 101
✅ People Ops in Remote Companies
✅ Creating Culture Remotely
✅ How to Manage Remote Teams
✅ Communication in a Virtual World 
✅ Getting the Work Done, Wherever, Whenever 
✅ Community for Remote Organizations or Digital Nomads

I am always interested in meeting curious people excited to learn from each other! I get excited about alternatives ways of working: remote work, non-traditional career arrangements, and growing rural economies through location independent work, building community, travel, and creating extravagant #WFH meals.  Feel free to reach out. 🤩

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