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

African Overland Tours .com

Travel designer, making travel dreams a reality and sharing passion and travel experiences about our beautiful continent.

To find out more on the Cape Town to Victoria Falls, follow this link: bit.ly/anotherperfectday

Africa Travel Specialist

Growmotely

Management of the global Account Management / Talent Acquisition team at Growmotely.  Using my professional match-making skills to source, screen, and interview talent, working alongside our global clients helping them find the best talent fit for their business, as well as recruiting for our internal team.

I love matching candidates and companies; this is what drives me.  Putting people first and making sure they will be happy, engaged and able to have long-term career success.  

Growmotely is the World's first platform to help conscious companies engage remote professionals all around the world into long term remote roles.  Recruitment, payroll, culture tools, and benefits - all in one place.  Plus, unlimited free job posts now and forever.  Join us in the future of work, let's gooo! 🚀🚀🚀

Head of Account Management and Talent Acquisition

Talent Acquisition Manager

Futurelink Recruitment - Permanent & Temporary Staffing Solutions

• Account management, sales calls and meetings with key clients to further develop the relationships
• Business development for range of products including temp and permanent recruitment
• Head hunt, identify and shortlist best talent to present to client
• Manage full interview process and feedback
• Manage all criminal, educational and reference checks
• Write adverts and job posting

Covering all industries inclusive of: IT, Advertising, Marketing, Finance, Retail, Production and Manufacturing

Senior Key Account Manager / Recruitment

Progressive Travel Recruitment

Working Remotely recruiting globally in: UK, Europe, USA, Dubai, Far East and South Africa

Managing recruitment needs of the business and maintaining a relationship with key contacts and candidates.  Delivering a high level of service that exceeds expectations.  Working towards sales targets and supporting colleagues while keeping administration duties up-to-date and accurate.   Actively source new business leads, networking to make connections and sign up new clients to our unique and elite recruitment service.

*** Company closed due to Covid and their new business is Dry Holidays ***

Account Manager / Recruitment

Pentravel

Dedicated and results focused Manager. Strong leadership qualities and good organisational ability. Recruit, train and mentor weak performing staff.  Flexible to new work environments and tasks. Good communication and listening skills. Ability to build great report internally and externally. Enjoys managing, motivating, training and developing, a successful and productive team and thrives in highly pressurised and challenging working environments. Building a strong team is my number 1 strategy for success. 

•   Recruiting new staff and building strong teams to get the best results
•   Managing income statements, P&L, budgets and business planning
•   Managing sales reports daily
•   Customer complaints
•   Monitor customer experience in store
•   Performance management
•   Morning meetings
•   Monthly 1-on-1’s with all staff
•   In-store training
•   Identify and train development managers
•   Attendance registers / duty rosters
•   Local store marketing 
•   Delegating office duties  
•   Consultant sales support
•   Individual and team goal setting to get best results
•   Advert training
•   Keeping window / brochure displays current
•   Salary schedules
•   Incentives

Career Highlights
•	Salvaging under-performing shop from closure 
•	Shop achieving highest sales growth numerous years
•	Top Sales Consultant in my store 8 years in a row 2007 – 2014 
•	Top Consultant nationally 2013
•	Pentravel Mayor of Fat City 2013 (CEO award)
•	Pentravel Top 10 Nationally 2014
•	Numerous travel prizes for top seller of a preferred supplier
•	Development of staff that resulted in prizes for top in their category
•	Won numerous top-sellers trips - various years

Travel Profile: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Dubai, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Greece and the UK (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales)

Travel Agency Manager

ANDREW ACTMAN LIMITED

Sales assistant

•	Customer service
•	Invoicing and packing orders
•	Amsterdam Account Manager
•	Basic Admin duties
•	Organise stock to prevent shrinkage

Sales Office Administrator

Blockbuster

•	Drive incentives
•	Delegate duties 
•	Customer service
•	Customer complaints
•	Meet sales targets

Career Highlights
•	Completed 2-year training course in 7 months
•	Promoted to Duty Manager after 3 months
•	Won numerous in-store sales incentives

Customer Service Manager

People focused and passionate.  I have a desire to help people whether it's helping them make their travel dreams a reality or connecting them with life changing opportunities.  

Passionate about coaching and development, with almost 10 years of management experience, first within the travel industry where I led an underperforming shop on the brink of closure to profit, and within the remote work space where I lead a team in Account Management and Talent Acquisition.

Over 20 years in customer-facing roles, I build rapport easily and have many great connections through all my years in the business world.  Strong Project Management, problem-solving, and analytical skills

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