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The system to become an inspired remote engineering leader.

All my knowledge compiled into a highly-actionable system. Built for you.

Remote work is eating the world. Embrace it.

The Performing Remote OS is a comprehensive set of complete, measurable, and sometimes contrarian strategies to empower engineering managers in their remote leadership mastery.

Driven by 3 strong pillars.

People-first leadership sets the foundation to empower your team and release stress, self-leadership helps you and your team succeed in remote work, and systems provide the structure and support for your team to thrive.

People-first Leadership

Empower people with clear directions, decentralized authority, and psychological safety, to thrive in remote work.

Self-leadership

Learn self-discipline and lead a team that owns their work and invests in personal development to make it scale.

Systems

Build explicit systems and processes to support your team and be the lighthouse they need to shine.

Team working together to climb a mountain

Highly actionable modules you can use today.

The OS is structured around modules with tens of comprehensible lessons and systems designed to be quickly executable with clear key performance indicators to track progress.

The Why

The reasons to put your people first and give them a reason to care about their work. Why empower your team to set their own goals and take responsibility for their own success.

Core Values

Establish core values that reflect your commitment to people and promote a positive team culture. Encourage your team members to develop their values and live them authentically.

Think In Systems

Understand how your team members interact with each other and the systems in place. Learn how to think systemically about your own work and how it impacts the team.

Build In Public

Create opportunities for your team members to share their work and feedback with each other. Be open to feedback and willing to share your own work in progress.

Explicit Direction

Provide your team members with clear and concise expectations. Be proactive in seeking direction and clarification when needed and create systems that help you track progress.

Asynchronous Communication

Respect the different communication styles and preferences of your team members. Be mindful of your communication style and implement systems supporting asynchronous work.

Deep Execution

Create an environment where your team members feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Set ambitious goals for yourself and be committed to seeing them through.

Decentralized Authority

Trust your team members to make decisions and take ownership of their work. Be comfortable making decisions and taking risks and build systems that distribute authority.

Distributed Knowledge

Encourage your team members to share their knowledge and expertise with each other. Create systems that make it easy for team members to access and share knowledge.

Online Course Coming Soon

Over three hours of high-quality, step-by-step video content to implement the OS.

Learn how to execute The Performing Remote OS in a series of videos that will teach you everything you need to know to go from zero to success in just over three hours.

  1. My Journey

    Get familiar with my backstory and why I built this OS to serve leaders.

  2. Future-paced Hero

    How you feel right now and what you will become after the transformation.

  3. 3 Pillars

    The 3 core concepts the OS is driven by and how they combine.

  4. Course Structure

    Presentation of the course structure, the modules, and the individual lessons.

Related Resources Coming Soon

Packaged tools and resources to get started fast and gain benefits now.

Pre-built models to start right away and immediately see the OS in action.

  1. Models and Templates

    Structured models for quickly implementing many key concepts of the OS.

  2. Checklists

    Set of checklists ready to be used by your team to action your systems.

Let's execute it together. On your schedule.

I help you leave chaos and become inspired again by achieving results with personalized coaching, compassion, and a listening ear. We work only asynchronously with the coaching advisory program. I apply the same process for fractional leadership services but with bonus commitments and dedicated calls.

Discovery

Uncover everything to know where to focus.

We discuss your challenges and problems and clarify your current state. I'll ask as many questions as necessary.

I'll ensure we uncover everything that must be known to gain full clarity and synthesize your entire situation and growth areas. This phase is fundamental as we must make informed decisions to build the right roadmap to execute the most pressing transformations.

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  • Discovery form. I will send a form for you to fill out to accelerate the discovery process.
  • Follow-up questions. Nothing will be left behind as I make sure to ask as many questions as I need to asynchronously.
  • Individual handbook. We review the form you filled out and ensure we uncover everything to map your current state.
  • Growth areas database. The outcome of this phase is to provide you with a complete database of your most pressing issues.
  • Key staff interviews.Fractional I'll connect and communicate with key staff for a complete view with different perspectives.
  • 1-hour discovery call.Fractional Allocated real-time communication to uncover everything together.

Strategic planning

Roadmap to execute towards your goals.

Based on what we learned, we devise a strategic plan to focus our energy on the right priorities.

We'll work together to build a roadmap to achieve your goals. We'll define the right objectives and key results to measure success and ensure we're aligned on the plan. We prioritize what makes the most sense, depending on your current state.

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  • Goals. Based on your growth areas database, we work on your goals to track progress.
  • Roadmap. We build a complete roadmap to list all work items we plan to achieve during the engagement.
  • 1-hour strategic planning call.Fractional Allocated real-time communication to collaborate on the strategic plan.

Execution

Time to buckle up and execute the plan.

The execution phase is how we translate your goals into actions. We focus ruthlessly and iterate to achieve results and learn fast.

The execution is the phase when the true magic happens. We build the right systems and perform specialized transformations to create change and leave your current state. This step is done through several execution cycles.

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  • I don't leave you alone. I keep communicating asynchronously to support you and ensure accountability.
  • Execution cycles. We achieve your goals by executing work items in cycles to produce results and learn fast.
  • 2 x 1-hour call every week.Fractional Allocated real-time communication to check in and discuss in-depth topics.
  • Weekly video updates.Fractional One video update every Monday to share top-of-mind topics and essential information.
  • Execution journal.Fractional I fill an execution journal to note key highlights and important thoughts for additional context.

Retrospective

Conclude and evaluate the next steps.

It's time to end the engagement, reflect on what you achieved, and give you everything you need to keep growing on your journey.

The retrospective is the last phase of the engagement. We take the time to reflect on what you achieved and give you everything you need to keep growing on your journey. We also discuss the next steps to ensure you're in the best possible conditions to continue your growth.

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  • Reflect progress. We evaluate how great you did against your goals and celebrate all your achievements.
  • Review growth areas. We quickly review the growth areas to help you plan the following priorities.
  • Evaluate next steps. Last recommendations to put you in the best possible conditions in your growth journey.
  • 1-hour wrap-up call.Fractional We take the time to wrap up the engagement properly and set you right for the next steps.

A question? Let's connect.

Follow me on LinkedIn to get my daily tips on remote leadership and personal growth and see how I build my business in public. Send me a DM to connect or ask a question.

We can also have a free discovery call to discuss your challenges, uncover your struggles, and see how I can help.

If you prefer, ask me anything by email.

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I went from self-doubts to self-empowerment.

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If I could help people for free, I would do it.

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Do not endlessly blame yourself when someone quits.

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You waste your growth potential with a lack of talent.

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I burned out twice.

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My take on the future of work:

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I spent too much energy arguing with remote work skeptics.

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The role of a leader is not to meet deadlines.

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I used to lead competitive teams in World of Warcraft.

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There is only misery if you try to control the outcome.

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