Sacha Connor is CEO of Virtual Work Insider, a consultancy that coaches organizations to work seamlessly across any distance. She led brands worth over $250M and was the first fully remote member of the leadership team for a $1 billion division at The Clorox Company.
Sacha Connor’s Speech Topics:
Sacha is highly qualified in leading virtual presentations that are effective and engaging since the core of her business is providing virtual leadership skills training via video conferencing. She is versatile in her ability to use any video conferencing platform that the client selects. Her keynotes and workshops are filled with concrete, practical advice and tools, and she uses every client and audience interaction to role model effective virtual leadership.
Embrace Modern Leadership
Lead geographically distributed teams, partners and clients to result in improved business, and a culture without distance bias.
- Learn the surprising impact of virtual and remote work on everyone and every area of the company
- Take away the four must-know skill sets to be a successful virtual leader
- Develop concrete strategies to drive results with distributed teams, and engage and utilize the talents of distributed employees
Empower Location Diversity & Inclusion
Leverage The Insider’s strategies to create inclusion and belonging regardless of location – the only speaker focusing on location inclusion as a D&I priority.
- Discover unconscious biases non co-located teams struggle with
- Take away engagement strategies to promote inclusion and learn why a lack thereof drives away talent and business
- Learn about Virtual Workforce Employee Resource Groups and how they further leaders’ D&I efforts organization wide
Strengthen Customer & Client Relationships
Leverage virtual leadership skills to improve client service and hit business and sales goals.
- Reframe your thinking to realize these relationships are virtual relationships
- Take away the four must-know skill sets to be a successful virtual partner
- Develop concrete strategies for how to influence and win client and customer trust, communication and business when you can’t be together in person
Transition to a Remote Work Culture & Future
Start the mindset of implementation and acceptance and improve culture, engagement, talent, productivity and overall business.
- Overcome misconceptions and biases about remote work and be educated on the benefits
- Understand the basic frameworks and skills that need to be put into place for successful implementation
- Learn the guidelines of selecting great candidates to go remote
Leading Effective & Engaging Virtual Meetings and Remote Presentations
Participants will:
- Provide actionable steps for what to do before, during, and after virtual meetings and presentations to be effective, efficient, engaging, and inclusive. (for internal meetings & external customer meetings)
- Know what tech tools to use and how to use them to be influential and engage with your audience
- Leave with a personalized checklist of what you will put into practice for your next virtual meeting or presentation
Remote Career Management
Participants will:
- Understand the importance of influencing from a distance and staying top of mind and how it’s different from being in person
- Be aware of concrete strategies and tactics to influence your key stakeholders (internal & customers) across any distance to meet your career and business goals. This includes providing a toolkit of tactics that use synchronous and asynchronous communication, including briefly touching on how to have influence during a video presentation.
- Create your own personal virtual influence plan to set into motion immediately
Sacha Connor’s Bio:
Sacha Connor is the CEO of Virtual Work Insider, a consultancy that coaches organizations to work seamlessly across any distance. Sacha specializes in providing virtual leadership skills training to remote, hybrid, and geographically distributed teams within companies and agencies.
Sacha has 18 years of business leadership experience at a Fortune 500 company and also agency-side, and 8 years of experience leading large, geographically distributed teams fully remotely. This features over 10,000 hours of leading virtual meetings, presentations, remote brainstorms, influencing remotely, team building and coaching
As one of the first remote marketing directors, she led brands worth over $250M and was the first fully remote member of the leadership team for a $1 billion division at The Clorox Company. Sacha co-founded the first-ever Virtual Workforce Employee Resource Group which enabled location inclusion across office sites, taught virtual leadership skills, and influenced the C-suite about how to adapt for the future of work. It now number 750+ members.
Sacha has counseled and trained clients across many industries, including Toyota Financial Services, Cigna, Gilead, Colgate-Palmolive, and Beam Suntory. She has spoken on virtual leadership topics in forums like the Women in Pensions Network, IDEO U’s Creative Confidence Podcast, FlexJobs’ TRaD Conference and Diversity Best Practices EmERGe Conference. Sacha has been published or quoted by outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), PBS, and Forbes.
