It can be tough, even at the best of times, to remain engaged at work – to find a community of people to share with and learn from. Emily Webber’s seen this in action and has started (and nurtured) successful communities both at work and at home. In this rerun podcast episode, she joined Lily and Randy to go deeper into how to build great communities with remote teams.

Featured Links: Follow Emily on LinkedIn and Twitter | Emily's Blog | Tacit | Read Emily's book  'Building Successful Communities of Practise: Discover How Connecting People Makes Better Organisations' | In The Ether has all the details on how to run a great virtual lean coffee | The Diversity Charter | Sharon Bowman's book 'Training From The Back Of The Room!' | Robin Dunbar's Social Circles feature in The Guardian | Emily and Robin's joint research paper 'The Fractal Study of Communities of Practise: Implications for Business Organisation'

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Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether...