My talks focus on designing employee experiences, fostering collaboration, building meaningful connections, cultivating thriving culture and developing impactful leadership in distributed teams.
Reach out to invite me as a speaker at a conference, organisation or university. In an effort to minimise the environmental impact of my travels, I prefer giving talks virtually in countries outside of Europe.
Past Talks
2024
2023
- Spacestor, Online [Watch]
- Running Remote, Lisbon [Watch]
- Grow Remote, Online
- Interaction 23 - IxDA, Zürich
- Digital Nomads: An Opportunity for Macaronesia, Ponta do Sol
2022
- Re:think Teamwork, Online
- Remote First Institute, Online
- Butter Collab Fest, Online [Watch]
- Running Remote, Montreal
- Power To Fly Summit, Online [Watch]
- Remote-First.Institute, Online
- Atlassian Team ‘22, Online [Part 1, Part 2]
2021
- MURAL Reflect 2021, Online
- Virtual Agile Meetup, Online [Watch]
- Digitale Leute Summit, Köln [Watch]
- MURAL Templates, Online [Watch]
- Running Remote AMA, Online [Watch] [Read]
- Hybrid @ MURAL, Online
- Abracademy Roundtable, Online
- Airmeet: Global Remote Day, Online
- UX Fest London, Online
- LIVEforward Institute, Online
- Gather Festival, Online
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Microsoft Ignite, Online
2020
- Remote Forever Summit, Online [Watch]
- Leadership Garage, Online
- Internet Society, Online
- Distributed Valley’s Remote Startup Expo 3.0, Online [Watch]
- Legal Geek, Online
- Vodafone F-Lane, Online
- Amsource, Online [Watch]
- itoday Summit, Online [Watch]
- Running Remote, Online
- Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator, Online [Watch]
- Abracademy, Online
- Remote Career Summit, Online [Watch]
- Zoom, Online [Watch]
- OWL Labs, Online
- Fulfilling Work Live, Online
- We Are Online, Online
- Designing Women San Diego, Online
- VICE, Online
- Hyper Island, Online
- Grow Remote, Online
2019
- Nomad City, Las Palmas [Watch]
- Remote Forever Summit, Online
- Global Virtual Design Sprint, Online [Watch]
- NEXT, Hamburg
- Surf Office, Berlin
- Mural Meetup, Amsterdam
- Remote AfterWorks, London
- Remote AfterWorks, New York
- Ravensbourne University, London
- Hyper Island, Manchester
- Wanderbrief, Online
- The Remote Work Summit, Online
- General Assembly, London
2018
- Abracademy, London
- Publicis.Sapient, London
- ELISAVA, Barcelona
- Nomad City, Las Palmas
- Remote Future Summit, Online
- menonthemoon, Vienna
- identum, Vienna
2017
- University of the Arts London, London
- Sun and Co., Online
- Miro, Online
- Out Of Office, Online [Watch]
- The New Digital School, Online
2016
- University of the Arts London, London
- Surf Office, London
- FutureGov, London
- UsTwo, London
- Remote Year, Valencia
- Mural, Online
- Hyper Island, Manchester
2015
- Minitheory, Singapore
- OCBC Bank, Singapore
- Impact Hub, Singapore
Speaker & Press material
Headshot
A photo for events or press can be downloaded here.
Bio
Laïla von Alvensleben is a globally renowned expert in flexible work. She has collaborated with remote and hybrid companies since 2014 and enabled their distributed teams to foster a thriving organizational culture while working from anywhere.
During her time at Mural—a digital whiteboard company supporting 95% of Fortune 100 enterprises—Laïla played a key part in its hyper growth from 100+ to 1000+ distributed employees across over 20 countries, empowering its rapidly growing team to successfully connect and collaborate from anywhere. Her work in designing and facilitating engaging experiences for distributed teams, including immersive award-winning virtual retreats, earned her worldwide recognition as one of the top 150 experts in the 2023 Remote Influencer Report.
Laïla regularly contributes to many of the leading courses, conferences, and publications on the future of work. She has spoken at key industry events including Running Remote, IxDA, NEXT, Digitale Leute Summit, Atlassian Team and itoday Summit. She lives in Lugano, Switzerland.