Richard Bretzger
Future of Work Expert, New Work, and Remote-Hybrid Leadership Consultant in Europe and Australia
Richard Bretzger (Dipl. Soz. Tech) has been working in the field of remote leadership and future of work for 15+ years.
At Technische Universität Berlin, Richard has been researching and lecturing in Sociology of Technology & Organizations around the topics of “telework”, social collaboration and leading teams from distance. He wrote his thesis about “digital transformation of work”. Back then, he founded an institute for the research of social movements in the digital age of “web 2.0” and got passionate about new ways of work.
He joined Stanwood, a remote-first IT Agency with team members distributed in 14 different countries, in 2017 as Head of Business Development and then Business Unit Director. He has been the Team Lead for clients from the Automotive, Health & Fitness and Publishing industries, among them blue-chip customers like Jaguar & Land Rover, Continental, Condé Nast, Bertelsmann, ProSiebenSat.1, FUNKE MEDIENGRUPPE, and H&M Lab.
Whilst companies previously had reservations in working with a remote-only agency, COVID-19 changed everything. Clients now kept asking Richard for his expertise in leading remote teams.
He experienced ways of asynchronous work when he has been “stranded” in Australia for more than a year during the first year of COVID and had to find out new ways of leading his team asynchronously. Since July 2022 he is Director of Consultancy at prosma, a consulting organization that helps companies to become gamechangers.
Until today, Richard translates his former experience towards leading companies to a new way of remote and hybrid work anddistributed leadership that puts the individual at the center of everything. Richard calls it: un-caging work.
Richard shares his knowledge about remote leadership and new work at conferences, industry leading events and workshops. But first and foremost, he loves to learn by listening to others’ ideas and challenges. His topics range from building and leading remote and hybrid teams, efficient hybrid meeting and work settings, topeople operations in distributed teams and processes.
Most of the time, he is travelling somewhere around the world and leading his team asynchronous with unconventional approaches.