The Power of Community in Any Organization (with Mark Birch, Global Startup Advocate at Amazon Web Services)

Welcome to the next episode of our Future Work podcast with your host, Daan van Rossum. This episode welcomes Mark Birch, an expert in community building and author of the book Community-in-a-Box: How to Build Event-Driven Professional Communities.Mark is a software entrepreneur, startup advisor, and community builder. He currently works at AWS as a Global Startup Advocate sharing how startups successfully build, grow & scale on AWS. Prior to AWS, Mark launched the SaaS business for Stack Overflow, founded an enterprise HR tech startup, was a software engineer, and worked for a number of leading technology companies.Practicing building community for over a decade and proven successful with the Enterprise CIOs Forum of 30,000 members across 24 chapters globally, Mark brings lively insights about:The importance of community building in every organizationRole of managers in connecting employees to the companyHow to address the challenges of building community in a distributed work environment.Find Mark Birch on LinkedIn.