Watch our on-demand webinar where we talk about how to maintain your culture and productivity along with the technology to use as you continue working remote.
The initial shock of the rapid shift to a virtual work environment has started to wear off for many, and leaders are now faced with decisions about how to ensure the ongoing safety of their employees while maintaining productivity and profitability.
Understanding the decisions they make can impact the culture of the organization and their ability to operate effectively, business and technology leaders have been faced with questions they’ve never had to face before. One of those is how to help employees communicate and collaborate effectively.
During this live webinar, thought leaders from Centric Consulting and Synthomer (formerly OMNOVA Solutions) will share perspectives about how organizations are supporting their corporate culture while enabling employees to communicate and collaborate effectively with solutions like Microsoft Teams.
Centric’s President Larry English will share his insights from being a pioneer of building a successful virtual work model and the tactics attendees need to transition permanently. Centric’s Modern Workplace lead Joe Hartsel will provide guidance based on his extensive experience leading technology and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Teams implementations. Synthomer CIO Mark Macioce will share his firsthand experience and lessons learned during the transition to using Teams and operating in a virtual environment.
Topics we plan to discuss include:
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Perspectives and guidance on how organizations can (and are) making the transition to a remote workforce
- How Microsoft 365, and specifically Microsoft Teams, can be used as a platform for enabling remote work and supporting your corporate culture
- Insight from a CIO about the opportunities and challenges of a remote workforce
We will conclude the webinar with a Q&A session, allowing participants to ask specific questions relevant to their current remote workforce experience.
About our Speakers
Larry English
Larry English is president and cofounder of Centric Consulting, a management consulting firm that guides you in the search for answers to complex digital, business, and technology problems. Before Centric Consulting, Larry worked for a large international consulting firm out of college until he got burned out at 25. He and his newlywed wife backpacked around the world as he tried to find his path in life–and he did. Shortly after returning home, he and his like-minded pals founded Centric with a focus on changing how consulting was done by building a remote company with a mission to create a culture of employee and client happiness. Today, Centric is a 1,000-plus person company with offices in 12 US cities and India.
Larry is father to four boys and husband to an adventurous wife. They reside in Columbus, Ohio. Larry is donating a portion of the royalties he receives from Office Optional to charity. To learn more about him and how to become an office optional company, visit LarryEnglish.net.
Joe Hartsel
Joe Hartsel is a National Modern Workplace Practice Lead. He is one of three authors of our ebook “Go Beyond Email with Office 365: How to Drive Adoption of a Collaborative Digital Workplace.” An experienced IT and business consultant who focuses on helping organizations improve communication, collaboration, and productivity by aligning business drivers with technical solutions. A Microsoft Certified Sales Specialist and Technical Sales Specialist for Office 365 and SharePoint, Joe focuses on helping organizations increase employee engagement and maximize benefits.
Mark Macioce
Mark Macioce is Vice President, IT – Americas for Synthomer, formerly Omnova Solutions. Over the course of his more than twenty-year career, Mark has been involved in a variety of IT initiatives from local, mid-market companies to global, multi-billion dollar organizations.
He led Omnova’s global IT operations from 2017, up to and through the company’s acquisition by Synthomer. The company adopted Microsoft Teams in 2018, and the platform was critical to the company successfully navigating its remote work model during the pandemic.