Meet the leaders of some of the leading WordPress-centric consulting agencies worldwide, as they are interviewed by Brian Krogsgard on what it takes to cultivate a happy team, with discussion topics ranging from remote work and salary to management feedback, and personal growth.
Brian will be joined on stage by Magne Ilsaas (Norway), Matt Johnson (USA), Ilona Filipi (UK) and Alex Frison (Germany) for the panel that we called “Cultivating happy teams, for better business”.
Magne Ilsaas, Founder of Dekode
Magne is the founder and manager of Dekode, Norway’s biggest WordPress agency.
With a background in design, he works on bridging the gap between design and technology in order to create the best and most cost-efficient WordPress projects for their clients. When he’s not working on WordPress projects, you’ll find him skiing or fishing in Lofoten.
Matt Johnson, CTO of Alley Interactive
Matt Johnson is co-founder and CTO of Alley Interactive, a full-service digital agency in New York City that works with large media companies and non-profit organizations, where he leads company technology strategy and outreach to the open source community.
Alexander Frison, Germany – Co-founder Inpsyde
Alex is a co-founder of wpengineer.com and co-owner of Inpsyde, the no. 1 WordPress agency in Germany, WordPress.com VIP partner and Gold WooExpert. His team and he are behind the multilingual WordPress solution MultilingualPress, BackWPup, Adminimize, Search & Replace and many, many more…
He’s responsible for WordPress VIP projects as project manager, strategic partnerships, and other marketing & growth activities.
When he’s not in front of his PC, he’s enjoying time with friends and family and if he is not injured, he loves to play squash, tennis and football.
Ilona Filipi, Co-founder Moove Agency
Ilona Filipi is the co-founder and MD of Innovative WordPress Agency Moove.
She blogs at IlonaFilipi.com about the business side of running a WordPress Agency.
Panel moderator: Brian Krogsgard
Photo by Tammie Lister, Eyetaken.com
Brian is a web developer, writer, and consultant based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the editor of Post Status, a news and information website for WordPress professionals.
He loves building websites, and he builds them with WordPress.
Brian delivers news, commentary, and WordPress insights on a daily basis and has an in-depth knowledge of everything important that is happening in the WordPress world.
Brian hosts a weekly WordPress podcast which you can follow on https://poststatus.com/category/draft/.