How Atlassian Empowers Distributed Teams
Join us for a fireside chat with Atlassian’s Modern Work Coach, Mark Cruth, and Gatheround’s CEO, Lisa Conn, about the evolution of flexible ways of working.
Atlassian, a pioneer in distributed work since 2005, has one of the largest distributed workforces in the world — 10,000+ people across 13 countries communicating and collaborating together. Gatheround lies at the other end of the spectrum: a small-but-mighty distributed workplace of just 15 employees, located around the globe but operating as a single team. How do two very different teams make it work?
Lisa and Mark will discuss the generational shift in the way we work, through the lens of organizational norms, values, and playbooks — important tools used by both teams to create a cohesive workplace culture across borders and timezones. Whether you’re a new startup or a large enterprise, you’ll walk away with new insights into how to make flexible work work for your team, focused on:
Ways of Working & Team Playbooks
Understanding Distributed-First
Company Values
Come prepared to participate: we’ll weave group breakouts and interactive exercises into the session, to better uncover how different teams with different needs solve similar challenges. We’ll host this event on Gatheround, so you can expect 60 min of interactive, engaging breakout conversations and knowledge sharing.
Please come prepared to be on camera and mic for parts of this event.
See you there!
More about Atlassian:
Atlassian’s mission is to help unleash the potential of every team — they do so by equipping 100s of thousands of teams with tools that help them organize, communicate, and advance humanity through the power of software.
More about Gatheround:
Gatheround exists to make remote, distributed, and flexible teams unstoppable — starting with how they gather.
Gatheround is a hub for creating and hosting more engaging and effective online gatherings — from routine meetings to workshops and group learning sessions. Designed for how remote-first and flexible teams connect, learn, and innovate, we empower facilitators and participants alike to make the most of time spent together (apart).
Meet your Speakers:
Mark Cruth, Modern Work Coach at Atlassian
Focused on practice over theory, Mark is a pragmatic modern work designer and coach. With over a decade of experience experimenting with teamwork practices at places like Boeing, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, and Rocket Mortgage, Mark's mission is to inject modern ways of working, a transformation mindset, and the power of expert storytelling into everything he does.
Today Mark works as the Principle Modern Work Coach for Atlassian, a company focused on unleashing the potential of every team! Mark spends his days coaching both Atlassian and customer teams on new ways of working, then sharing what he's learned at events around the world!
Lisa Conn, CEO and co-founder of Gatheround
Lisa Conn is the co-founder and CEO of Gatheround, an interactive video meeting platform that brings teams together to learn, innovate, and connect.
Lisa's background is as a community organizer and community builder; she started her career as a political organizer with the Obama campaign, then worked on immigration policy reform with FWD.us. From there, she contributed to the MIT Media Lab's landmark scientific analysis of ideological polarization on X (then Twitter) and went on to lead work at Meta on programs to reduce polarization and extremism on the Facebook platform. She earned her MBA from MIT and her BA from NYU.
Lisa lives in Los Angeles with her daughter Gigi, her husband Joe, and their senior dog Henry. Outside of work and parenting, Lisa is interested in interiors, fashion, and politics. She sits on the Board of Directors of the education non-profit Facing History and Ourselves and is a contributor to Forbes.com.