Sara Sutton is the Founder of pioneering remote work job service FlexJobs, and she has been widely considered a leader in the advocacy of remote, hybrid, and flexible jobs. Sara views them as a powerful way evolve our workplaces to be more compatible with the realities of modern lives, organizations, technologies, and economies--as well as societal, health, and environmental challenges. In addition to FlexJobs, Sara launched the advocacy initiative 1 Million for Work Flexibility in 2013 to help raise awareness around the expansive benefits of remote and hybrid work. In 2015 she then founded Remote.co as the first resource for organizations to learn and share remote work best practices (which has also evolved to be a sister job site), and in 2016 and 2017 she launched and hosted the first premiere highly regarded conference events on remote work called the TRaD* Works Forum (*Telecommuting, Remote, and Distributed) in Washington, D.C. Sara's passion for helping people find a better way to work actually goes even further back to 1995. That's when she dropped out of UC Berkeley during the early Internet entrepreneur days to co-found the first online entry-level job site back in1995 (JobDirect, sold to Korn|Ferry International). For all of her work in the employment and technology fields, she was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and also served on the community's Advisory Group. Among other involvements, she is a Fellow in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship focused on contributing to the innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem in New Zealand and ways to use it as a basecamp for global benefit. Through these and other groups, she loves the opportunity to travel, meet and connect incredible experts from various disciplines, and broaden the thought leadership on topics including entrepreneurship, the future of work, gender equity, environmental issues, and workforce/HR technology.Sara is open to Advisory and Board roles, as well as angel investing related to the future of work, health and wellness, the circular economy, AI, and other areas.
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