Welcome back to the Teammate Apart podcast. Todays special guest is Kaleem Clarkson. Kaleem is a husband, father, remote work advocate, people operations professional, and speaker. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc a remote employee experience consultancy that helps startups and small businesses onboard, engage and retain their remote teams. Further, he is the founder of Remotely One, a members-only community for remote work professionals which is fighting to end remote work isolation by connecting with other location-independent professionals.

With more than 20 years of people ops and event planning experience, Kaleem has become a well-known personality in the remote work space. In addition to his routine appearances on the pages of well-known publications — from Harvard Business Review to Forbes — his various podcast interviews, and keynotes, he hosts a popular weekly program, Remote Work Wednesdays, on the new Clubhouse App featuring some of the best and brightest in remote work discussing a topic of the day.

Here to chat about the importance of trust and how to foster it on remote teams, how to build meaningful and sustainable relationships when working virtually, and how to use both of those things to build a diverse and inclusive company culture, please join me in welcoming to the show, our guest, Kaleem Clarkson.