Leading Without Borders: Lessons from the Trenches of International Team Management

What does it really take to lead a team scattered across time zones, cultures, and continents? In this talk, Tina shares hard-won lessons from building and managing cross-continent teams — how to earn trust when you can’t share a coffee, how to build a sense of community among people who’ve never met face-to-face, and the discipline of communicating with clarity and intention.

Tina explores what remote female leadership looks like in practice, how to create genuine mentorship relationships across distance, and the art of managing up when your manager is time zones away. Along the way, she challenges the assumption that authority requires proximity — and makes the case that the best long-distance leaders lead through influence, clarity, and care rather than control.

Attendees will leave with:

• A framework for remote leadership grounded in influence, clarity, and care — not control
• Practical ways to build genuine mentorship across distance
• The art of managing up when your manager is time zones away
• A more intentional approach to leading people you may rarely meet in person