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

Sawatzky & Associate Management (SAM) Coaching

We are living in an economy where a traditional view of work is being challenged. No longer can we assume that work will happen within the walls of an office space; rather, terms like ‘location independent’, ‘office not required’, or ‘hybrid teams’ have become part of our business language. While this is all positive, what does it mean for those working or leading in a remote context?  

At SAM Coaching/Consulting, our committment is to work collaboratively with individuals, teams, or organizations as they endeavour to create workplaces where people are respected, have the opportunity to grow, and work from their areas of strengths. 

Recommendation from former client Zurino Ostroman:
“Roberta has got ‘the knack’. Period. She so loves people, that she naturally puts you at ease because you feel she is there for you. Not to mention the fact that every time I sit down with Roberta, there is one big ‘ah hah moment’. It’s uncanny. It’s not just a good idea, or something worthwhile to work on. It’s a real big hairy audacious ‘ah hah moment’. And she really knows how to pull it out of me, how to ask the right questions for the situation, which constantly changes. Plus, she actually listens to what you have to say, and from her incredible depth of knowledge and experience, responds in your best interest, not hers. (That should go without saying, shouldn’t it? In Roberta’s case, it does.)

The thing I most respect about Roberta is the fact that she is genuine. And humble. I’ve seen first hand the ease with which she gets along with people from all backgrounds and age groups. She cares, and loves to help. And it shows from the first moment you meet her. We should all be so fortunate to have such a coach.’

Primary Coach/Consultant

Okanagan College

I thoroughly enjoy instructing in both on-line and face to face classes in the areas of Human Resources and Management. Topics I teach include: Leadership, Training & Development, Recruiting & Selection, Non-Profit Management, Organizational Behaviour, HR Management, Management Principles, Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management,Learner Centred Instruction.

Professor, Okanagan School of Business

Working in Continuing Education coordinating the Employment Skills Access Program.

Program Co-Ordinator, Employment Skills Access Program

Workplaceless

We help companies experiencing pain points of remote work transitions through scalable, personalized training programs that increase team productivity and employee engagement.

SME for Workplaceless

Right Management

Involved doing contract work for Right in the Okanagan Valley.

Consultant

Involved in developing curriculum as well as facilitating courses for Continuing Studies at varous OC campuses.

Curriculum Developer for 'Learner Centred Organizations'

CBD Network Inc.

Coming along side skilled and professional unemployed individuals to train and support them in their job search.

Career Coach & Facilitator

The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada

Responsible for researching and development training materials for leaders in church settings. Provided in-house professional development as well as presenting at conferences across Canada.

Recommendation:
"Roberta served as the Resource Manager at TLCWCC at a time when our ministry was in an ever changing environment. Roberta took the challenge of either finding or creating the right tools that would support thousands of leaders and hundreds of churches across Canada. Roberta is a strong leader and will stand up for what is right and will do what is needed to get the job done. 

Gregg Cochrane"

Manager of Resources & Product Development

Summit Career College

Responsible for Hiring and on-going development of instructors, and the selection/application process for students. Developed curriculum, instructed in various disciplines, and participated in the strategic plan for the college.

Academic Dean/Instructor

Continually curious about many things. Currently focusing on how remote and virtual employees can be set up for success, AND, how to create amazing learning environments that embrace international and domestic students in the college classroom.
By the way, I care passionately about the development of people! 

Activities in this area include:
Remote worker
Professor (HR and Management)
Coach/consultant
Conference speaker
Workshop facilitator
Curriculum developer

Specialties: 
Remote/virtual work
Strengths based development
Appreciative Inquiry approaches
Training and development
Recruitment and selection
Team building

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