Iwo Szapar

Hybrid Work Expert

🚀 Remote-First Activist | Top 50 Remote Influencer | Since 2017, shaping the future of remote-first world

Aloha, I'm Iwo Szapar! Over the years, I've helped transform how over 3,000 companies approach work, leading to more efficient and enjoyable professional lives. 🌍

Key Achievements:

▪️Co-created the AI Maturity Index with Harvard researchers, democratizing access to enterprise-grade AI readiness insights
▪️Advised Ministry of Communications and Technology of Saudi Arabia on AI up-skilling for startups
▪️Launched world's first certification program for remote workers: Remote-how Academy, back in 2018.
▪️Established strategic partnerships with 150 companies, including Asana, Deel, Remote, and Safetywing.
▪️Created an expert community of 250+ consultants from companies such as GitLab, Netflix, and Hubspot.
▪️Co-organized 3 editions of Remote Future Summit, reaching over 11,000 attendees and featuring 140 speakers.

Born in Gdansk, Poland, I've embraced the 'slowmad' lifestyle, living in various countries while working remotely. This journey has enriched my perspective and fueled my passion for innovation. When I'm not working, you can find me reading history books, following international affairs, or indulging in my hobbies as a dog lover, amateur surfer, and DJ.

Connect with me to explore how you/your company can work smarter! 🚀

🚀Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder

Remote-how helps companies make remote & hybrid work, work. Since 2017. 

🤓 Remote-how Marketplace - the world’s leading remote & hybrid work experts marketplace. Work on your consulting and advisory projects with 200+ pre-vetted practitioners from top distributed companies. 

🚀 Remote-how Campus - a community where leaders of hybrid teams come to connect, learn and grow together with access to live leadership development programs, mentoring services, and more.

🚀 Our AI Maturity Index got acquired by ISG (Information Services Group).

Didn’t think a random virtual coffee with a stranger would turn out this way...

18 months ago, Eryn and I started talking about AI adoption chaos.

Everyone had opinions.
Nobody had data.

We launched this as a research project.

It evolved into a diagnostic tool.
Using AI to assess… AI maturity in under 15 minutes.

Our system interviewed 6,000+ professionals across 75 countries.

The data was clear:
• 92% of companies are increasing AI investment
• Only 1% consider themselves AI-mature

Companies weren’t struggling with AI tools.

They were struggling with knowing where to start.

ISG noticed.
They partnered with us.
Then became our biggest client.

Today, they acquired us.

That’s not how acquisitions usually work.
But maybe it’s how they should.
They knew the product deeply.
We knew their vision.
The fit was obvious.

ISG brings research capabilities we couldn’t build alone.
Global reach to take this from thousands to millions.
Resources to turn our platform into enterprise infrastructure.

I’m genuinely excited about what we’ll build together.

Now, zooming out for a second.

It’s been 8 years of building.

First Remote-how.
Then Remote-First Institute.
Now AI Maturity Index.

Many mistakes.
Many lessons.

And now — first exit.

I’m relieved before I’m excited 😅

Eryn — you made this possible.

That “virtual coffee stranger” became an incredible co-founder who pushed me, challenged me, and helped me grow fast.

Thank you. Truly. ❤️ 

Fun fact: we met only twice in real life. 
Once in Lisbon (where we decided to launch the company together - see picture), and second time in Saudi Arabia.

This entire journey was 100% remote.

To the 6,000+ people who took the assessment and trusted us with their data:
You made this possible. Every benchmark came from you.

To Steven, Hannah, and the entire ISG team: You believed in the platform long before the acquisition. That partnership gave us confidence this would work. Thanks a bunch!!!

And to everyone who thought:
“Just another AI survey” — fair skepticism.
We had to earn trust with data quality.

Now we close the 92% / 1% gap.

At scale.

With resources that matter.
Companies investing in AI need to know where they stand.
We’re building the infrastructure to show them.

PS. Yes — I am VERY excited. Like… a lot.

PS2. Full press release → link in comments 👇

Co-Creator of AI Maturity Index (Acquired by ISG) 🤙 Vibe Worker

Nadia Harris

💥 Founder of remoteworkadvocate.com 🌍 MBA, LLM 📚 Book Author "How to tackle hybrid working?", Conference Speaker 🚀

My name is Nadia Harris - welcome! 😉

I stand for a fairer, more flexible and genuinely modern world of work. Not because it’s trendy, but because it changed the entire trajectory of my own life. 💪

I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. Remote work opened the doors I couldn’t open myself, and it’s the reason I’m here today. I want others to have that same shot, regardless of where they were born or what language they speak at home.

The 9 - 5 industrial template? That belongs to another era. 🧐

Today’s reality is different - global, complex, fast, and deeply human.

👉 Performance instead of “being seen.”
👉 Facts instead of bias.
👉 Clear rules instead of chaos.
👉 Change instead of clinging to comfort.
👉 Technology & AI that actually supports people, not replaces them.

I'll be honored if you decide to follow me! 🔔 

What I actually do:

💡 Building global remote infrastructures across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the U.S., with airtight legal, HR and operational frameworks.

💡 Drafting and implementing international remote-work policies, including compliant workation setups, cross-border “work from anywhere” governance, tax implications, social security assessments, and risk modeling.

💡 Designing global employment architectures - from locally compliant contracts to multi-country handbooks, and cross-border labour law integrations.

💡 Preventing employment misclassification, especially in distributed freelancer-heavy environments.
Clear scopes of work, deliverable-based models, contractor governance, and audit-proof documentation.

💡 Leading complex HR legal transformations - TUPE-style cases, restructurings, acquisitions, collective dismissals, compliance remediation, payroll transitions, and remote-ready operating models.

💡 Building future-proof organizational systems - merging people operations with legal compliance, AI integration, measurable performance, and scalable processes.

💡 Advising founders & leadership teams on global talent strategies, cross-border expansion, risk mitigation, and legally compliant remote-first scaling.

Let's chat anytime in English, Polish, German or French!!! 🚀🚀🚀

🌍 Feel free to visit my website: https://www.remoteworkadvocate.com

📩 hr@remoteworkadvocate.com

Founder of remoteworkadvocate.com

- Educating on flexible work solutions - both employers and employees.
- Designing custom made solutions for a distributed workforce (such as: internal communications, processes and procedures, tools, IT and legal risk elimination).
- Designing remote employment frameworks for a global workforce, being in line with local laws - employment contract preparation, contractor agreements, short-term working abroad policies/workations (aspects such as tax, social security, insurance and labour laws), employment misclassification guidelines, EOR implementation.
- Performing workshops on successful remote and hybrid work implementation for managers and teams (async collaboration, virtual meetings, project management).
- Providing online consulting services & courses to candidates willing to find a remote job.
- Strategic human resources planning, employee satisfaction and retention evaluation, succession planning, career paths, performance reviews based on KPIs and company-wide OKRs.
- Designing company culture within remote and hybrid teams, including leadership training programs and individual sessions to maximize their potential, level up one to one delegation and feedback processes as well as motivation and engagement practices.
- Creating remote talent strategies (over 500 candidates hired worldwide), including talent and salary mapping, recruitment automation, ATS implementation, talent marketing campaigns and candidate experience tracking.
- Providing coaching to employees, managers and senior leadership to drive culture and overall business success.

Collaborated with companies from various industries. Some of my clients: Roche, Toptal, MAN Trucks, WoltersKluwer, Amazon, Raiffeisen Bank, Pekao, ArchDaily, Prezi, WorkMotion, SafetyWing, DataTruth, Airbus, DELL, Traffit, Employment Hero, Talkin'Things, Bookboon, Uniqa, Receeve, RadSwan, Seres Therapeutics, National University, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen and many others.

🆘 Friendly reminder... Remote work is not a buzzword or just a convenient way of working BUT IT'S OPPORTUNITY in a world that’s increasingly polarized, unequal, and rigid where it shouldn’t be.

❌ Where you’re born.
❌ Where you live.
❌ What passport you hold.
❌ Which city you can afford.

✋ NONE of that should decide whether you get access to meaningful work.

I know that for many businesses it’s uncomfortable because it's shaking markets and it’s forcing outdated structures to confront reality. But this is called change. Simple as that!

So... unfortunately, here’s the part we’re still failing at:
👉 Laws are lagging behind reality.
👉 Cross-border work is treated like an exception, not the norm.
👉 Digital workers are building the future on legal foundations from the past.

In today's AI era, remote and gig work aren’t “nice to have”. They are gateways to new ways of working, living, and participating in the global economy.

The truth is that work is more fluid, careers are less linear and income is more distributed, more digital and more cross-border.

👇 I'm sharing a recap of my thoughts that I express to remind everyone about this change shaping the future of work. What would you add?

#remotework #futureofwork #gigworkers #gigeconomy

💥 Founder of remoteworkadvocate.com 🌍 MBA, LLM 📚 Book Author "How to tackle hybrid working?" ✨ Remote Work Lawyer ⚖️ Winner of the “Remote Rights Award”🥇 🚀 Shaping the Future of Work 🔮

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