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February 11, 2022

Lessons from a trip creator: How to run an offsite

Thinking of running an offsite this year? Elina Rueda from The Coworker Experience shares her advice on how to make it great.


Elisa Rueda

When we asked Twitter a while ago who ran great offsites, Elisa Rueda’s name popped up. She is the founder of The Cowork Experience — a company that creates and manages team offsites and provides online programmes for team growth and development. She’s been trusted by the likes of open source platform GitLab, investor platform and jobs board AngelList and consultancy Capgemini. She’s taken teams everywhere from Hawaii to Bali. For our Startup Life newsletter we got her top tips for running an effective offsite for your team.

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Anisah Osman Britton

Anisah Osman Britton is coauthor of Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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