Virtual Team Leadership Essentials

Chris Hope serves as a lecturer in leadership at the University of Adelaide's MBA program while pursuing research at the University of Cambridge. His innovative approach to human connection gained widespread recognition through his "100 Coffee Movement," a social experiment where he met 100 strangers for coffee over 100 weeks, leading to a compelling TEDx talk about the power of face-to-face connection. Through this project, he discovered profound insights about human connection, meeting people in 72 different cafes and documenting their unique stories and perspectives. His expertise extends to virtual team management and consulting, where he helps organizations improve their remote work dynamics. As a regular public speaker and social innovator, he focuses on fostering meaningful connections in both professional and personal contexts, drawing from his experience of transforming casual coffee meetings into powerful tools for building relationships and understanding human behavior.