Tim Hampton
I’m the founder of Remotely Ambitious, where I help distributed teams develop the skills to build trust, take ownership, and work better together.
I’m an engineer by training and spent more than three decades working in information technology, much of that time leading teams in a large university environment.
My work today draws on that experience, particularly what I’ve learned about leadership, communication, collaboration, and helping people do their best work.
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Working remotely isn’t simply a matter of doing the same job from somewhere else. It requires different approaches to communication, collaboration, leadership and individual responsibility.
Through Remotely Ambitious, I develop practical training and resources that help managers and their teams build the skills to work effectively across distance.
The goal is to help people build trust, take ownership and work better together, without depending on everyone being in the same room.
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For more than three decades, I worked inside large organizations, primarily at York University in Toronto, where I led teams supporting technology across a complex academic environment.
The most important challenges were rarely technical. They involved helping people work together, managing competing priorities, developing staff, and introducing change in an established institution.
That experience taught me the importance of clear expectations, good communication, and giving people the information and authority they need to make decisions and take initiative. Those lessons continue to shape my work today.
The Hero Leads
The Hero Leads: Your Hero’s Journey in the Corporate World is about making change happen from inside an organization, even when you don’t have the authority to direct it.
Drawing on the Hero’s Journey, the book explores what happens when someone recognizes a problem, decides to act, and takes responsibility for making things better.
It’s a book about initiative, courage, and the difference one person can make by choosing to lead rather than waiting for permission.
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