​Workshop: Ensuring team wellbeing in a climate of digital exhaustion

​Speaker - Lavinia Iosub, Managing Partner @ Livit International

​Lavinia is the Managing Partner of Livit International, a support ecosystem for entrepreneurs, startups and remote workers who build exciting tech/digital businesses. Livit has been incubating and nurturing remote-capable teams, projects and companies for the last 10+ years. They’ve worked with over 1000 clients from across the world, and their partner portfolio at any given time spans 10-25+ countries.

Livit recently won the Flexible Workplace Award for "Outstanding Employee Wellbeing", are amongst the 2% happiest and most engaged teams worldwide according to OfficeVibe, and a top 3 Best Workplace in Indonesia in 2022 according to Great Places To Work®.

Livit has 20 people in the core team as well as 20 other support and part time team members and contractors. They also manage 100+ other team members for their emerging startups.

In building their culture, Lavinia focuses on clarity, alignment, trust & treating people like adults, human connection, quality work “infrastructure” (tools, systems, equipment) and feedback. Autonomy and authority is distributed across the team and their values are at the base of all the people and governance systems (e.g. hiring, promoting, decision-making). Livit runs several wellbeing related policies and programs, including Sabbatical, paid personal development & wellbeing time & expenses, Livit Time2Give & many more. The team takes pride in being a "place" where people perform, play, grow, and explore new ways to live and work.

What you’ll learn at this workshop:

• ​How Livit has built an award-winning, remote, human-centric, high-performance, impact-focused team

• ​Tools, systems and programs that support wellbeing and prevent burnout

• ​How to cut through all the fluff and fads and nurture an engaging, meaningful culture that goes a few layers deeper than forced ice-breakers and ping-pong tables

• ​What works and what doesn’t in cross-cultural remote and hybrid teams

• ​Meaning & purpose: how everyone should feel they’re working towards a little more than just making someone else rich.

​This workshop is part of a series for the Running Remote community Actionable, now - a highly interactive deep-dive workshops into practical tips, concrete tools, frameworks, methods, and strategies to solve common challenges remote companies face.