Dajana Dakonovic is the Head of People at Toggl. Toggl is a time tracking SaaS company working fully remote since 2014. Dajana shares how they managed not only to maintain culture in a fully remote setup, but make it one of the biggest value propositions to their employees. She also shares the nitty gritty behind their outcome based work approach as well as their “controversial” hiring process.

00:00 Teaser

06:38 Dajana’s background and early age influences

11:58 Challenges of the hybrid model

18:05 Values aligned decision making in action

19:00 Hiring process at Toggl

29:56 RAFT (outcome based approach to work)

46:30 Extreme leadership

48:20 Bad experiment

54:59 Making remote culture work

1:03:10 Harsh truth about startups and scaleups

1:13:30 Final strong opinions on the current state of HR

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Dajana Dakonovic

Irina Alexandra

Toggl

Brightroom

David Henzel is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and the founder of Love Not Fear. David Henzel’s journey is anything but ordinary. Expelled from 14 schools and dropping out at 15, he grew up resisting authority and drifting without direction. After discovering entrepreneurship everything changed. It gave him structure, drive, and a mission far bigger than himself. Once a shy, introverted guy, David now thrives as a keynote speaker and networking expert. His journey proves the power of changing your mindset. His Love Not Fear philosophy is at the heart of everything he does, encouraging people and businesses to embrace purpose, abundance, and courage. Today, David runs a portfolio of successful companies, while helping organizations grow through intentional organizational design, conscious leadership and personal development.

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David Henzel

Love Not Fear Assessment

Irina Alexandra

Brightroom - training and coaching for high growth companies

Etienne Salborn is a changemaker-maker and social entrepreneur. He founded SINA (Social Innovation Academy), empowering marginalized youth and African refugee communities to become social entrepreneurs through a cost-effective and innovative approach of “freesponsible” empowerment. By creating their own solutions to the challenges they face, participants transform from passive aid recipients to active drivers of their own futures. As SINA’s model continues to scale across different African countries through a replication approach, its impact continues to grow. It has reached twelve communities in five African countries and has given birth to 72 social enterprises.

Etienne’s dedication to social entrepreneurship and mentorship has led him to serve as a lecturer for social entrepreneurship at the Management Center Innsbruck, the ESCP Business School and as a resource person for the Asian Productivity Organization, and facilitator for the ChangemakerXchange. His expertise and leadership have earned him recognition as an “AACSB Influential Leader 2021” or “Innovation Ecosystem Builder” by MIT D-lab.

SINA’s impact has been widely recognized through numerous awards as well, including the Tony Hsieh Award, the UNHCR Innovation Award and the 2023 Ockenden Prize.

PS: The video was recorded as part of scientific research, hence a bit of an inquisitory questioning style :)

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Etienne Salborn

SINA

Irina Alexandra

Brightroom