In My Shoes-One Culture, Many Times Zones: Building Belonging in a Fully Distributed Workforce

Featuring Simone Vargas, Megan Speight, Omar Saleem Melbourne, Australia Chapter, and Neema Jain Pearl City, Hyderabad Chapter - July 21, 2026

Overview

This panel discussion explores how to build and sustain a strong, safe and diverse culture across fully distributed teams. The panelists have complementary perspectives and share practical frameworks that project managers can apply when leading or collaborating within virtual, cross-cultural teams.

Learning Objectives

-Apply practical rituals and communication systems that build trust and belonging within fully remote, distributed project teams.

-Distinguish between team culture that depends on physical presence and culture that is intentionally designed to travel across time zones and project lifecycles.

-Incorporate diversity, culture and belonging practices into day-to-day project leadership, stakeholder management, and team rituals.

-Assess whether current remote collaboration practices are genuinely effective, beyond standard satisfaction or engagement surveys.

-Anticipate common pitfalls when scaling culture across distributed, global project teams, and identify strategies to mitigate them. 

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