As the world moves to a more remote workforce, businesses across industries and markets are having to adapt. We asked leaders who have experience with making remote work effective to share their stories, lessons, and insights with us.

Jeania Pierre

I must say that COVID-19 has changed my business model and shifted my mindset. It started off rough, but that didn’t stop me. I started making great sales and promoting myself at different events or in person. Read more>>

LaKisha Mosley

Covid totally changed my business model. I went from doing 100% in-person events to pivoting totally to online events. I had to change how I did everything in my business. I read everything I could about online events because I wanted to successfully produce the dopest online events. Read more>>

Francis French

The pandemic and subsequent lockdown showed me that, more than ever, people crave human connection and human stories. I continue to write books because that is of course an excellent way to reach people around the world. But increased online talks and panel sessions, blogs and online articles expanded to reach people even more as well. Read more>>

Innocent Amara

Our story began in 2014, as we wanted to provide a way to have group fitness classes brought to the doorsteps of our patrons. To make this vision become a reality, we reached out to multi-family housing communities in the Atlanta area. After having many years of success, COVID hit. In person classes came to a screeching halt and we had to quickly pivot. Read more>>

My-Linh Nguyen

I work as a counselor at a local community college, providing services to students in their educational and career planning. When I think about this question, I think about how Covid has changed our “delivery model” tremendously. At the time of March 2020 when everything shut down, we were still largely functioning in the traditional brick and mortar sense and had only just started to pilot online counseling in small pieces. Read more>>

Chelle Thompson

Absolutely! I’d say it has been challenging as well as a blessing. The challenging aspect of covid changing business for me is that most have been furloughed or hours being cut which obviously means that business suffers. My repeat clients took a step back on booking due to the importance of how they needed to spend their money versus how they wanted to. Read more>>

Jesse Sunga

I made the move to Nashville from Atlanta in February 2020. The world shut down March 2020. Playing live shows has been my bread and butter for a majority of my music career and that was brought to a standstill. Music was still alive and well; people were playing at home, perfecting their craft. And with all of the free time a lot of music was being written. Read more>> 

Alec Luong

We spent a considerable amount of time working out the back end systems of the company before we launched. The firm we previously came from was a pioneer in working out the kinks of virtual computing within architecture, and we learned a number of valuable lessons working through that deployment. Flexible back end systems are key to allowing for a flexible work environment. Read more>>

Peter Porr

At Cravo, we pay and reward our collaborators on output, not time spent sitting at our chairs. We rather have people focus on their work, get it done at their pace and desired time, and go enjoy their lives than have them at our office, putting mediocre effort, and gathering around the water cooler. Read more>>