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

Remote Skills Academy by Livit

An impact-focused education platform for Indonesians (and now expanding worldwide) who want to learn to work online, build successful remote careers and live life on their own terms.
Upskilled and reskilled 10,000+ alumni over the last 4 years.

Livit

CEO Livit International & Founder Livit Hub Bali

General Manager Project Getaway, Livit Spaces

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

Bali Investment Club - BIC

Angel Investor

Plumia

Plumia champions global mobility rights for people everywhere and aims to build a country on the internet. Our work spans research, policy, technology, storytelling, and design, and we aim to bring about a human-centric future where a person’s birthplace does not restrict their access to work or life opportunities.

Member

Uncommon

Uncommon is a platform where the world's top female talent come to connect and level up. Our fast-growing community and action-oriented programmes are designed for the many facets of the modern successful woman.

Project Getaway

Curated, inspiring workations, retreats & getaway experiences in tropical Bali for entrepreneurs and startup teams.

Managing Partner

The P World

•	Launched and managed operations for the Azerbaijani market, including business development, legal & finance, logistics, recruitment & staff coordination, customer relations, marketing & PR, partnership initiation and delivery.
•	Worked with a portfolio of international event brands like the "Marketing Kingdom", "HR Experience", "PR Experience" which feature speakers representing some of the most recognized entities on the globe: the Royal British House, Facebook, Google, Rolls-Royce, the Olympics Games, Lego, etc.
•	Organized the first business excellence awards in Azerbaijan ("Excellence in HR", "Golden Crown Marketing Awards"); 
•	Collaborations involving the launch in Azerbaijan of "The Economist" publications; consultancy services for government agencies; public relations campaigns for projects like the first Hollywood star endorsement for a local brand.

Managing Director

Handled the local side of the PR campaign, business development and logistics for the first P World project in Azerbaijan.

PR & Business Development Manager

AIESEC Iasi

Coach

Managed a team of 6 people who was in charge of organizing a recruitment campaign, various conferences and events related to it, an induction program.

Project Manager

Outgoing Exchange Team Lead

AIESEC in Azerbaijan

•	Established media relationships in order to promote the AIESEC projects.
•	Developed strategies for strengthening the AIESEC presence in university campuses. 
•	Trained AIESEC members on communication, PR, marketing, project and event management, intercultural exchange, finance-related issues. 
•	Coached and mentored project managers, team leaders and exchange participants
•	Supervised and found ways to enhance the budgets raised for the country management office, local offices and their projects. 
•	Together with the other VPs, elaborated and implemented HR (especially recruitment and talent development) processes, tracking and performance appraisal systems.

National Vice President - Communication and Local Development

Founder of Livit Hub Bali & Remote Skills Academy | Future of Work Advocate | Speaker APAC & EU | WoP7. BASB14. Uncommon '21.

Over the last decade, at Livit, we've helped develop 100+ business ideas and dozens of remote-capable teams. 10+ million people across 60+ countries have been reached through projects started in our ecosystem. Headquartered at Livit Hub Bali, we have been ranked as one of Asia's Best Workplaces and received several other awards for our organizational culture.

The Remote Skills Academy, which I founded in 2020, is an impact-focused education platform that has equippd 10,000+ Indonesians and other youth around the world with digital and remote work skills. We are currently expanding via partnerships in Africa and Europe.

I am also a Founding Member of Remote-First Institute, an angel investor, and an advisor/board member to a handful of other exciting companies and projects.

I am passionate about the future of work. I believe that when we design more purposeful, sustainable businesses and lifestyles, we shape a better reality. I have spent the last 10+ years studying and understanding the mindset, practices, and tools required to make that happen, and I am excited to share my expertise.  I have received multiple distinctions for my work in culture shaping, leadership, and business development, including being a Top 50 Remote Innovator in 2023 and 2024, and my work was featured in publications like Washington Post, CNET & more.

My professional and personal experiences span 4 continents, 45+ countries, and several different industries. I am based in Bali for most of the year and a digital nomad/location-independent entrepreneur for the rest.

My fields of expertise are new ways of working, modern leadership, organizational design & culture, work-life synergy, sustainable entrepreneurship, human capital development.

Lavinia Iosub (Yo-soob)

In other news, I'm "going back to school".
Sort of. And not just any school.
Beyond excited to be embarking on this adventure: the Stanford Seed Class of 2026, a year-long leadership and growth program built for impact-focused founders / CEOs & exec teams by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
The goal is to gain new tools, sharper strategies, and bold ideas to make what I'm building with Agnes Kay, Agung Deviana, Chalsie Janny, Johanes Raymond, Nafinia Putra, Nathan Tew, Syenny . and our teams stronger than ever.
Onwards and upwards!

Lavinia Yosub (Iosub)

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

I first read this article a few months ago, and I returned to it today, since it gave me so much food for thought- and it's probably the sanest thing I've read in a long time.
Joe Hudson is the top exec coach in the world and works with the people building AI/AGI (incl. Sam Altman). 
Here are 10 takeaways, many of which stopped me in my tracks:
➡️ Before AI, knowledge set you apart. Knowing more = earning more.
➡️ Today, as models swallow entire fields overnight, wisdom is what keeps you indispensable.
➡️ The people building AI understand a sobering truth: They are building the technology that will make their own skills obsolete. AGI will be able to do what they can do today—faster, cheaper, and at scale.
➡️ Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource.
➡️ Now, you can get all the answers from AI, but how you use those answers takes wisdom - which he summarizes as these 3 skills: emotional clarity, discernment, and connection. 
➡️ Wisdom is how to live. It is the residue of mistakes, metabolized by time and reflection. It can’t be rushed, and it can’t be copy-pasted.
➡️ Promotions in the age of wisdom won’t go to the people with the most impeccable spreadsheet, but to those who can transform a team’s silent anxiety into aligned action. “You won’t be judged on how much you know, but instead on how well you can allocate and manage the resources to get work done.”
➡️ Too much choice stalls action. In the famous "jam study," shoppers presented with 24 flavors bought jam 3 percent of the time, while those offered just six flavors purchased 30 percent of the time—a 10-fold jump.
➡️ The world’s longest-running longitudinal study (Harvard) found that the single strongest predictor of both happiness and physical health in old age was the warmth of participants’ close relationships. In fact, quality of connection at age 50 predicted health at 80 better than cholesterol levels did.
➡️ Inner work isn’t just a personal growth tool anymore. It’s a strategic imperative. And it literally is the cornerstone of being happy - and living a long life.
Basically, in the age of AI, the most important thing you can do to future-proof yourself - not to mention increase your chance of being happy and living a long life - is to work on your emotional clarity, discernment, and connection with others.
Simple, but not easy.

https://lnkd.in/gEQFgtuM?

Open article: Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next by every.to

Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next

Being great at your job used to be the fastest way to stop doing it. The better you got, the less you got to do it.
You know it's true.
Well, it was.
Corporate logic: crush it at your job so we can make you stop doing it and manage people instead. Master your craft and we'll make you trade it in for a title - and a calendar fuuuuull of meetings.
A few companies, like Netflix or Google, saw the problem and built proper senior individual contributor tracks. But in most organizations, going into management is (still) the only way to evolve your career, make more money, earn more respect, status, etc - even if you are terrible at it or aren't even remotely interested in it. 
To no one's benefit: the result is an army of reluctant, overwhelmed, and often just plain bad managers.
Same story for entrepreneurs: do what you love long enough, get good at it, start having increasingly more demand for your product/service and suddenly you're approving budgets, running one-on-ones, managing teams who do it instead. Some of us love the challenge and thrive in these new 'roles', others  don't. 
Now all this is changing:
AI is finally freeing specialists from the tyranny of becoming mediocre managers.
Yesterday, during a roundtable at the Leadership Gateway, wonderfully put together by Anne Caron & Saranta, Reza Behnam brought up examples of fractional execs that can now join your business bringing entire teams of trained AI agents with them. 
Anne talked about coaching her clients to think in terms of capabilities instead of hiring needs. Then, going from there: do you really need a new hire? two, ten? an internal promotion? a fractional, a contractor? An AI-enabled workflow operated by your existing team?
Grace reflected on how the corporate question of "How much headcount can I get this year?" is quickly becoming well... passé.
Meanwhile, John Rush is running 24 startups with exactly zero human employees.
The need just won’t be there anymore.
If you’re technical (and I don't mean being CTO material - I mean just being good at your craft and good at experimenting and implementing digital and AI tools), you’ll soon be able to produce the results of a whole team - without managing a single human being.
Maybe AI won’t replace managers.
Maybe it’ll just make managing itself optional.
That won’t fix everything.
Humans will still crave mentorship, collaboration, and leadership. Some people will want to and be good at managing teams. But this might finally let experts grow without being forced up the (wrong) ladder as the sole available option.

I've been thinking a lot lately about “AI slop” (low-effort content churned out by generative AI without much - or any - human discernment or quality control). 

LI posts, Substack content, comments of all kinds, emails, "articles", millions and trillions of LI messages.

It's the digital equivalent of fast fashion: cheap, abundant, mass produced to fill up the racks and shelves rather than stand the test of time.

The key markers: saaaaameness, superficiality, wa-ay too many words. It’s not that AI itself produces “slop” by default,  it’s that when people use it lazily, the result is an ocean of beige that makes my eyes instantly glaze over it and start thinking about what to get for dinner.

Ironically, this slop flood we're all experiencing is.creating a new premium on human curation and originality. As AI slop grows, so does the value of anything that’s obviously written, designed, or thought through by a human with a spiky, non beige, non-vanilla, opinionated point of view. (And yes, humans _can_ use AI in the process of researching, producing and refining that.)

This week in positi-news:

Since June this year (which is only a few months ago!), more than 7,000 learners from across Indonesia, from Aceh to Papua, have joined Remote Skills Academy’s AI Upskilling Program. Each one of them is learning to use AI in ways that make a difference in their lives, such as:

➡️ micro-business owners creating product videos and visuals with AI tools, 
➡️ stay-at-home parents discovering new income opportunities while caring for their kids
➡️ university students finding smarter ways to analyze research or develop their papers. 
Each end-beneficiary reminds us why accessibility matters more than ever.

Across every community, we notice the same challenge:
❌ Many people think AI is too complicated or "not for them"
❌ Most learning materials are in English or feel far removed from their daily lives

That’s why we work hand in hand with our local implementing partners to make AI learning relatable and practical. Sometimes that means running offline sessions in small towns, bringing a list of real challenges and solving them together using AI during live demos. Other times, it’s hosting fun, interactive online trainings with quizzes and short breaks to keep everyone energized and engaged.

And we’re just getting started.

Big shout-out to InfraDigital Foundation, Nortis Academy, Aliansi Remaja Independen (ARI), the incredible RSA team led by Nafinia, Chalsie, Yulita, all trainers and mentors for your relentless support and dedication to this cause and to AVPN and KORIKA for making it all possible.

And yes, this has just been featured in Tech in Asia 😊

Open article: Uncover the changemakers imparting AI skills where it counts most by techinasia.com

Uncover the changemakers imparting AI skills where it counts most

🤖 AI Adoption: where do you stand?
Here’s your chance to find out, through a playful 15-minute chat with a Livit agent that maps your current AI adoption level, benchmarks you against global users, and gives you a personalized roadmap.
Built by Iwo Szapar and his team at AI Maturity Index, currently taking the world by storm!
Fun stuff, give it a try ▶️
https://lnkd.in/gYX-r7PS

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, AI-skeptic

What happens when founders, climate geeks, investors, and dreamers sit down for lunch in Bali?
Ideas cross-pollinate. 
Unexpected collabs are born. 
The future (maybe) gets a tiny bit brighter.
We’re hosting an ESG, Sustainability & Climate Tech Lunch on Wed, Oct 22, 12:30-14:00 at Livit Hub Bali, part networking, part idea-jam, part delicious buffet.
If you work on (or are simply interested in) climate tech, impact, sustainability, or future-proofing the planet, come pull up a chair.

Open article: ESG, Sustainability & Climate Tech Networking Lunch · Luma by luma.com

ESG, Sustainability & Climate Tech Networking Lunch · Luma

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