Are you working in a hybrid or remote work environment and seeking ways to optimize your experience?

Join me and my guest is Melissa Romo, the author of a new book called "Your Resource is Human: How Empathetic Leadership Can Help Remote Teams Rise Above." We talked about why she wrote her upcoming book and how every leader and every employee who is working right now in this hybrid or remote work environment should be reading this book. And, she shared how she found time to balance working full-time, raising a family writing, and writing this book.

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Highlights from this episode:

Why she wrote her upcoming book "Your Resource is Human" and a sneak peek of what the book is all about.
What companies need to do to keep employees engaged and thriving in this new environment.
Sneak peak at some of her findings from interviews for the book.
How to bracket your day to optimize your time and protect your boundaries.
How to keep a remote team tightly knit together.
The remote leadership wheel and the five emotional pitfalls.

Books:

Your Resource Is Human: How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above (Practical Inspiration, 2023)

Blue-Eyed Son (Red Ship Books, 2015)

Connect with Melissa:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriterRomo

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissatromo/

A little bit about Melissa:

Melissa Romo is the author of two books, the historical novel Blue-Eyed Son (Red Ship Books, 2015) and the forthcoming non-fiction business title Your Resource Is Human: How empathetic leadership can help remote teams rise above (Practical Inspiration, 2023).

Melissa has spent her career in marketing and advertising, working for multinational companies and brands around the world, including jobs in Warsaw, Paris, London and New York. She earned a B.A. in History from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, where she studied organizational behavior and leadership. In her most recent role as VP of Marketing for a leading cloud software firm, she manages a globally dispersed team, and has managed remote employees for more than a decade. Her historical novel, Blue-Eyed Son, was inspired by her time working in Warsaw. It is a WWII-era story about displacement and the loss of national identity during times of war. She has been a contributing writer on lifestyle, travel and expatriatism for publications in the U.S., U.K. and Poland.

She and her Spanish-born husband live in Hoboken, New Jersey with their two teenage sons and an adopted Labrador.