KNOW-ME

KNOW-ME provides teams, organizations and individuals with personalized growth paths to help them tackle their greatest challenges for productivity, collaboration and wellbeing.

Founder

The Four Languages

The four languages is a community that supports people in practicing weekly experiments for holistic change and wellbeing.

Innovation Distributed

Introducing KNOW-ME, the revolutionary navigator tool that will transform the way companies select their people projects. KNOW-ME is designed to help businesses identify and prioritise their most strategic initiatives, so you can achieve your goals and drive success.

Launching in April 2023, KNOW-ME offers invaluable insights into your organisation's biggest challenges and opportunities. With KNOW-ME, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of your team's strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to make informed decisions about where to focus your resources and investments.

Whether you're looking to improve employee engagement, reduce turnover, or enhance your organisational culture, KNOW-ME will provide the guidance and support you need so you can focus on the right initiatives.

Founder, CEO

Remote-first.Institute

We are a not-for-profit organization on a mission to create a space with open-source and expertise knowledge about the remote-first work approach provided by the world’s leading future of work experts.

We launched the Remote-First Institute to:
- Counteract the global "back to the office" movement.
- Create Global Standards for companies on remote-first processes.
- Produce high-quality events, articles, reports, and analyses.
- Cultivate a global community for remote-first experts.

Founding Member

Building the Remote-First Institute community from the ground up. Strategy, planning and facilitating events.

Program Manager

Tiensivu Coaching

I mostly work with professionals who are doing well in their current lives but have that nagging feeling of: "I really want something to change, but I'm not quite sure what it is... I am ready for something new but I don’t want to throw away all the hard work over the years."

I might be the right coach for you if...
A. You hate questions like: Tell me about yourself? What do you do? What do you want in life?
B. You only really know what you don’t want.
C. You're doing well on paper but ask yourself if this was really "it".

Throughout the coaching sessions and in bespoke in-between session exercises, you'll be reflecting on who you are, discovering who you wish to become and implementing concrete strategies to get there.

Transformational Coach

obodo

In-house Service Designer and Product Manager for obodo's Product Design as a service products.

In-house Service Designer / Product Manager

Obodo is hyper-focused on delivering MVP projects and high class design talent to startups and scale-ups. We do that by running design sprints using our highly praised design diary framework, as well as by nurturing our talented design community and clients with a range of opportunities for growth.

Design Manager

Remote Transition

We help organisations put humans first in distributed settings 🌏

Our approach is inherently human centric and we are passionate about making sure going remote doesn’t mean burnout, isolation and overworking but rather increased wellbeing and productivity.

Fulfilled people make exceptional team members, and exceptional teams fuel thriving companies.

Co-Founder, Product Manager / Wellbeing Coach

Good Innovation

Good Innovation works with charities and companies to create lasting relationships with their supporters. My role as an Innovation Consultant was to plan, manage and run innovation projects in collaboration with our clients. 

The projects consisted of coaching internal interdisciplinary teams in innovation (both with the methodology and the mindset). As well as researching, testing, designing and evaluating new services and products to disrupt their current product portfolios. The aim in all projects was to find the sweet spot between internal assets, the charity mission and market potential to make sure these organisations can keep funding their lifesaving work in the future.

Service Designer / Innovation Consultant

Exove Design Ltd

As a Service Designer at Exove I worked in close collaboration with the clients, the developers and other designers in the team.

My role consisted of using and iterating on the best methods for designing and gathering insights from all stakeholders in order to create holistic services to fulfil people’s needs and carry out company strategy. In designing digital services I used a variety of design and research methods from interviews and workshops to prototyping and testing concepts to make sure that the UX and service promise for the customers can be fulfilled with a matching set of thoughtfully designed internal processes. 

To create change with digital tools, I start and end with the people who end up using them. 


Keywords:
Service Design, Design Research, UX Design, Web Design, Interviews (both within organisations and end-users), Designing and Facilitating Workshops (both within organisations and end-users), Organisation Process Mapping, Organisation Design, Implementation Design, Stakeholder Mapping, Rapid Prototyping, Digital Prototyping, cross-team collaboration

Service Designer

Tiensivu Design

I co-founded Tiensivu Design in 2013. Tiensivu was a sustainable Art and Design brand that aimed to bring new life into old leather and wood items. 

As a Creative Director I established and coordinated both long-term and shorter collaborations with e.g. Pure Waste Textiles, Unmonday, Karhu Originals, Costo, VestiMI Con Gusto, Sampo Marjomaa and Plaekä. My role included establishing and managing collaborations and the brand concept, marketing, sales and photography.

Co-Founder, Creative Director and Designer

Guiding People Leaders from Guesswork to Clarity 🌎 Location Independent Founder 🌞 Holistic Wellbeing Through Experiments ⛺ Founding Member at The Remote-First Institute

From innovation consulting and organizational design to holistic wellbeing, my journey has taken me to where I am now = helping individuals, teams and organizations expand through experiments.

Because do you know which projects have the best ROI? 

The right ones.

It's not easy to make everyone happy, but it is easy to find the perfect place to start.

Ps, If you're still looking for my "title", feel free to use one a friend gifted me: 🪴 The human gardener.

Maaria Tiensivu

One of my favourite parts of shifting over to Purpose Driven AI are these podcast conversations. Even if sometimes they open up more questions than answers… 🙈 


Thank you so much Lavinia Yosub (Iosub) for joining, and there are at least a few more conversations in the horizon where this came from!

✨ Purpose Driven AI 👉 Implementing Life-Centric AI 🌎 Location Independent Founder of purposedriven.ai & The Four Languages 💫

Founder Livit Hub Bali & Remote Skills Academy | Built one of Asia’s Best Workplaces | Top Future of Work Innovator ’24 | Venture Builder & Angel Investor | AI-fluent, but heretic

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to Maaria Tiensivu from Purpose Driven AI about 
➡️ responsible AI
➡️ what we do at Livit  & Remote Skills Academy to shape intentional and discerning AI use in our team
➡️ how to turn AI into a massive lever and enhancer of our humanity (rather than fighting the losing battle of competing with it)
➡️ what skills to invest in to future-proof our careers - and more importantly, to enjoy our work and lives more.
Can't wait for the episode to come out!

Our first podcast is live, and I feel so grateful to kick it off with this amazing conversation with Íñigo Cavestany Villegas. In this episode we talked how responsibility changes shape with AI, and what it means for builders. 👇


My main takeaway from the session was to not only ask ourselves “what can this technology do?” but “what are the risks, and how can we prevent harm?” 

Ìñigo offered a beautiful approach for reversing the usual planning process by starting it out with potential downsides to find the boundaries for ethical innovation.

It reminds me of the IKEA approach AKA designing from the limitations of space, price, and materials. 

With AI, the possibilities are almost limitless, so it’s even more important to consider all the ways our creations might be used (or misused). By doing this, we can build safer, more trustworthy solutions.

Ultimately, the value and impact of AI will depend on the intentions, ethics, and accountability of those who shape it. Now that anyone *can* build with AI, we need to consciously educate ourselves (and others) about the responsibilities that come with creation.

Do you consider the potential "harm" when creating with AI? Or are you solely focusing on the positive outcomes? How might exploring the dark side of AI make your designs better?

🎙️ Listen to the podcast on Youtube or Spotify, or find it on the purposedriven.ai website (link in comments!)

#AI #podcast #artificialintelligence #purposedrivenAI

Have you ever been curious about how your days could look like if you planned them based on your energy, not arbitrary schedules? Join me and Rachel Korb, PCC today for a live session to learn how. 👇👇👇


Link to join in comments, see you at noon in ET | 17:00 London. 💪🥰

#wellbeing #energymapping #livesession #holisticwellnebeing

Search & Rescue - Talent Strategy Solutions

Search & Rescue offers consultative talent acquisition services on a fractional basis, including Retained Search, Recruiting Enablement and Recruitment Process Outsourcing. 

Deeply committed to optimizing the candidate experience, Search & Rescue brings form, function, finesse and flexibility to recruiting operations as an embedded partner, providing foundational and/or supplemental services to companies - small business, start-up or otherwise - as they scale. 

Offering diverse experience across industries, including B2B SaaS, Behavioral Health Tech, Mental Health Care, Real Estate Development, Commercial Construction and Property Management, Search & Rescue leads searches across a variety of disciplines, such as:

◦ Clinical roles in Behavioral Health & Mental Health
◦ Functional roles in Construction Management & Real Estate Development
◦ Go-to-Market roles in Marketing, Sales, Implementation & Customer Success
◦ Operational roles in Human Resources, Finance, Accounting & Administrative Support
◦ Non-Technical roles in Software Development, Project Management & Product Support

Search & Rescue also offers content creation services to support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives, as well as freelance writing on topics related to people operations, including talent attraction, candidate experience, onboarding & orientation, employee engagement, performance management and professional development.

Talent Acquisition Partner⛑

ClearCompany Talent Management Software

As a Strategic Advisor to ClearCompany - makers of the world's fastest-growing talent management platform - I consult on the development and marketing of their Employee Engagement and Performance Evaluation & Goals products.

Strategic Advisor - Performance Management

Brinkman Construction

Deployed full-cycle recruitment initiatives designed to scale across a trio of integrated organizations, including a B-Corp certified real estate developer and a 100% Employee-owned commercial construction company generating over $300 million in annual volume. 

✔️ Employer Branding: Developed multi-channel recruitment marketing content and collateral to articulate and amplify our Employer Value Proposition in alignment with corporate brand standards and strategic business objectives.

✔️ Talent Pipelining: Designed innovative scouting, sourcing, and executive search strategies, employing push/pull communication and collaborative relationship building to engender trust and ensure a steady stream of well-qualified candidates to support present and potential workforce planning needs. 

✔️ Recruitment Process Optimization: Delivered an engaging candidate experience marked by timely communication, transparency and elegant transitions across each stage of the recruitment continuum, from first impression, on-site interviews and final offer through onboarding,  orientation, acclimation and integration. 

✔️ Engagement Activation: Augmented the employee experience and increased organizational effectiveness by originating and operationalizing special projects and events, including a comprehensive campus recruiting strategy, pre-boarding program,  onboarding mentorships, multi-disciplinary early career rotations and a redesigned performance management system.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Encompass Technologies

Led performance management and professional development programming for a B2B SaaS organization offering an integrated ERP, CRM and Supply Chain Management platform servicing food, beverage and cannabis distributors.

✔️ Performance Optimization: Developed tools and processes to measure and manage employee performance, including KPIs and associated metrics, as well as data-driven reports and dashboards providing objective analysis and qualitative assessment of success across roles and teams.

✔️ Consultative Coaching: Facilitated critical conversations and career counseling sessions in collaboration with employees and managers, in an effort to increase competence, ignite purpose and inspire contribution. 

✔️ Organizational Development: Consulted with the Executive Team on initiatives related to recruitment and retention, employee engagement, compensation strategy and succession planning, in an effort to drive continuous improvement and cultivate a culture of autonomy, accountability, empowerment and excellence.

Performance Management Coach

Westfield Company, Inc.

Managed all People Operations processes and programming for a privately held
real-estate investment, development and property management firm.

✔️ Human Resources Service Delivery: Managed HRIS, maintaining data integrity and ensuring timely processing of employee  change events, including onboards, enrollments, transfers, adjustments and separations; Served as primary point of contact regarding company policies and procedures, providing accurate and actionable information as needed.

✔️ Compensation and Benefits Administration: Developed total rewards strategy and benefits plan design, including compensation benchmarking, broker selection, contract negotiation, vendor relationship management and account reconciliation; Processed payroll, prepared labor allocation and job costing reports; Administered 401(k) and Section 125 plans, including remittances, record-keeping, reporting and participant communication. Managed annual open-enrollment, serving as subject matter expert around plan design, utilization, coverage, cost-sharing and claims; Facilitated the transition to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

Human Resources Manager

Alfson Energy Land Services 

Operationalized Human Resources programming for a privately held professional services organization in oil & gas, formalizing policies and procedures as the company transitioned from start-up to emerging growth.  

✔️ Process Origination: Consulted with organizational leadership to define and align strategic objectives and codify operational objectives related to people operations, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. 

✔️ Recruiting and Onboarding: Conducted job analysis and specification, managed requisitions, composed job-postings evaluated applicants, selected candidates, scheduled interviews, presented offers and negotiated compensation; Optimized job-readiness through the implementation of high-quality onboarding, orientation and training programs. 
 
✔️ Performance Management: Created a company-wide performance evaluation and improvement system, identifying KPIs, implementing employee 360s, devising repeatable processes, and delivering performance management training for managers and senior leaders. 

✔️ Organizational Development: Executed special projects in strategic planning and marketing, including the launch of a new line of business dedicated to oil-field photography and videography and a complete redesign of the company website.

Human Resources Generalist

Leader's Challenge

Managed co-curricular experiential education program centered on leadership development, service-learning and civic engagement, serving 350+ students in 35+ high schools across 10 school districts along Colorado’s Front Range on an annual basis.

Driven by curiosity, delighted by irreverence and dispirited by rigidity, I’m not the HR Lady of yore.

I'm a fractional talent strategist, full-cycle recruiter and freelance writer, providing foundational and/or supplemental talent acquisition support to companies - small business, start-up or otherwise - as they scale. Deeply committed to optimizing the candidate experience, I bring form, function and finesse to recruiting operations as an embedded partner, on-demand.

Leveraging diverse experience across a variety of industries, I lead searches of all stripes, including:

◦ Clinical roles in Behavioral Health & Mental Health
◦ Functional roles in Construction Management & Real Estate Development
◦ Go-to-Market roles in Marketing, Sales, Implementation & Customer Success
◦ Operational roles in Human Resources, Finance, Accounting & Administrative Support
◦ Non-Technical roles in Software Development, Project Management & Product Support

In addition to retained search, recruitment process outsourcing and recruiting enablement, I create content to support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives, as well as short-form writing on topics related to people operations, including talent attraction, candidate experience, onboarding & orientation, employee engagement, performance management and professional development. 

I'm available for speaking engagements and offer speechwriting services on each of these topics as well. 

As a remote work advocate and solopreneurship enthusiast with a wicked case of wanderlust, I Iove showing my family the world - and seeing it though their eyes - via immersive international travel and experiential education. 

Learn more about our journey to location independent family life in the book, "Digital Nomad Moms: Women Who Carved Out Successful Remote Careers to Travel the World With Their Children," available now on Amazon.

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