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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