Lightning Talk: Modern ways of working for distributed teams
What can leaders do to drive clearer goals, create more focus time, and better coordinate work in the modern world of online collaboration? Join Atlassian’s Global Head of Team Anywhere Annie Dean and SVP of Product Erika Trautman as they discuss what’s worked (and what hasn’t) for solving these challenges within Atlassian’s highly distributed 11,000+ workforce.
How we work matters far more than where we work, and modern collaboration largely happens online. That means that the biggest blockers to productivity, connection, and innovation—including lack of goal clarity, too many ineffective meetings, and task overload—are not magically solved the moment an employee walks into an office.
So what can leaders do to drive clearer goals, create more focus time, and better coordinate work? Join Atlassian’s Global Head of Team Anywhere Annie Dean and SVP of Product Erika Trautman as they discuss what’s worked (and what hasn’t) for solving these challenges within Atlassian’s highly distributed 11,000+ workforce.
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Annie Dean
Global Head of Team Anywhere
Annie Dean is the Global Head of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, where she is responsible for the 11,000+ person company’s shift to a distributed work model. Annie oversees the Real Estate and Workplace Experience teams and the Team Anywhere Lab, a dedicated group of behavioral scientists focused on designing and validating evidence-based ways of working. Most recently, Annie was Meta’s first Director of Remote Work, where she created and led a portfolio of future of work strategies. As a globally recognized expert on remote and flexible working, Annie’s work has been featured byThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company.
Erika Trautman
Head of Product, Work Management for All
Erika is the Head of Product for Atlassian’s Work Management offerings, building our portfolio of modern work collaboration tools that keep teams engaged and in sync. Prior to Atlassian, she was Director of Product for Google Drive and Editors, a suite of collaboration tools used by more than 1 billion users.Before helping enterprise teams work better together, Erika was an entrepreneur who founded and successfully sold Rapt Media, a creative platform for interactive enterprise videos. On the creative side of the house, she was a documentary filmmaker and founder of an Emmy Award-winning production company called Outlier Films. Erika holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from University of California, Berkeley.
