Giana Pilar Gonzalez

A lot of people mix up leadership and management. They're both important, but not the same: And that mix-up causes more problems than people realize. Because when you try to manage people the same way you manage tasks, Systems, Or deadlines, Things start to break. Trust drops. Motivation fades. Performance slips. And that's where people get it wrong. Because leading people is not the same as managing work. 12 remote job portals you should use if you need a high-paying remote role 1. Remotive - Curates active, fully remote tech jobs - Trusted by top global tech companies - Link: https://lnkd.in/gGV9EC8h 2. Eztrackr → Build your resume. Track your job applications. Get your dream job faster. → One platform for your entire job search → 1M+ resumes made → Get started here: https://lnkd.in/gu6tQN8R 3. Remote Rocketship - Insights into flexible jobs and company culture. - Free resource for companies looking for remote talent - Connects businesses with freelancers and agencies worldwide - Link: https://lnkd.in/gMgvEmhW] 4. Remote Woman - Remote job board tailored for women - Promotes flexibility and career growth - Link:https://remotewoman.com/ 5. Wellfound - Connects job seekers with startups - 130K+ tech jobs from 27K companies - Link:https://wellfound.com/ 6. We Work Remotely - Largest remote work community with 4.5M+ visitors - Offers a wide range of remote job opportunities - Link:https://weworkremotely.com 7. WorkWave - Remote job listings for various industries - Known for flexible work opportunities - Link:https://www.workwave.com/ 8. AI Jobs - Focuses on AI-related remote job listings - Features top 1% of AI companies - Link:https://theaijobboard.com 9. Toptal - Exclusive network for top freelancers - Covers software development, design, finance & more - Link:https://www.toptal.com/ 10. FlexJobs - Find remote jobs globally or near you - Offers career coaching and resume help - Link:https://www.flexjobs.com/ 11. JS Remotely - Specializes in JavaScript-related remote jobs - Includes React, Vue, Node.js, and Angular roles - Link:https://jsremotely.com/ 12. RemoteOK - Aggregates remote jobs from across industries - Allows filtering jobs by category and salary - Link:https://remoteok.com 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 (𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲) 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻. 1. Google Introduction to Generative AI: → https://lnkd.in/gwaWewce 2. Foundations of Project Management: → https://lnkd.in/g-XJuJBi 3. Google Project Management: → https://lnkd.in/d-nTbsxA 4. IBM Python for Data Science, AI & Development: →https://lnkd.in/dTjC2nER 5. Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce: → https://lnkd.in/dm6WuNYR 6. Google IT Support: → https://lnkd.in/dbJvRjed 7. Google data Analytics: → https://lnkd.in/gBjbwiZW Build apps, websites, AI videos, and complete businesses with just prompts using GPT-5.6, Fable 5, and more check it out 👉 https://lnkd.in/g6mw4mVf

A local small business owner hired me this week to make a flyer. Normally this isn't the kind of job I'd take -- I haven't done graphic design in nearly 20 years as my focus has been UX and experience design, and the last ~10 years of my career have been in strategic design leadership instead of hands-on design work. It was a small, low-visibility, low-strategy, low-pay project. It did not have the prestige or impact of my work at places like BBC and News Corp. It wouldn't even be worth putting into my portfolio. So why did I take the job? Is it because I was laid off months ago and now I'm desperate for any way to feed my family? Surprisingly, NO! That's not the reason! I took the job because she said she didn't want to use AI to make her flyer. She wanted it to feel *real*. She instinctually understands the impact of an AI-made flyer compared to a human-made flyer. She knows a designer's expertise is more likely to create a flyer that converts. I was thrilled. I took the job. I made the flyer. It's the best f***ing flyer you've ever seen. It took me 18 minutes and I charged her $25 for design + printing it on my home printer. I'm on a mission over here: Eliminating AI flyer slop, one small business at a time.

This past year I have been thinking a lot about love, and about creativity. And yet, it was somewhat of a double-take to realize that the two share much in common: desire, care, tending, listening and observing, giving it time, memory and narrative. Caterina Moruzzi and I, as part of a book we are writing on creativity, had the audacious idea of convening 9 invited participants to work through and with a material engagement on the "making of creativity." Our bet was that by asking makers that intimately engage with matter (in the Jane Bennett sense of matter, but also in the Baradian tradition of "matter matters") while asking questions about how (and if) creativity can be defined, we could uncover gestures, tacit knowledge, constellations of meaning (in the Adorno sense). In our planning, questions about AI were prominent, and yet, in our 2 days AI receded to the background, it became just another technology of making — even though we were all keenly aware that it is claiming a bigger piece of that equation. We were surrounded by Jacquard looms dating to the 1800s and still-operating weaving/knitting machines that were enmeshed with their operators. They could not operate without their idiosyncrasies and quirks (and maybe quarks too) being tended. Maybe these machines in the next room eased our existential anxieties about the "machine," or maybe all our participants were so engaged in conversation, manipulating clay and wax, seeing the horse hair used on an intricate weave by one of our weavers reappear on the cello bow. Maybe it was the pure presence and engagement of all the participants (a state of flow?) that made questions about AI banal and irrelevant. What bonded us was a desire to engage and share the delight (and the pain) that the creative process entails with peers who were there because of the love of what they do and their desire to share that love and its complexity. We plan to continue these gatherings and probe deeper into how techne makes us and we make techne and what is the ethics that inevitably underlies any act of making. This experiment could not have been made possible without the support of the RKEI Fund of Edinburgh College of Art, BRAID UK the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the ONASSIS FOUNDATION for flying over one of our participants, and the generosity and curiosity of Doric Shipbrokers S.A. And of course without the magic our participants brought to the room, framed by Virginia Matseli's (our host at the NHMA/BENAKI Museum) belief in culture and giving it space. Thank you all — Susan Atwill, Natalia Manta, Grace Pappas, Maria Tsilogianni, Stratos Bichakis , Alexandra Bissa, Maria Sigma, George Adamopoulos, Viki Steiri Website: https://lnkd.in/diSgEi7j - experimental documentation by Kevin Walker

Why do we make things? What is the relationship between desire, skill, materiality, technology? What is the encounter between maker and matter? How does AI change the dynamics, or even how and where the encounter takes place? These are some of the questions we will explore on 23–24 June 2026 as we convene Material Encounters: Creativity in the Times of #AI in Athens: a two-day workshop bringing together 9 invited practitioners and researchers working across ceramics, weaving/textiles, architecture, sound, music, digital art, and creative coding. Very much looking forward to working with: Susan Atwill, Natalia Manta, Grace Pappas, Maria Tsilogianni, Stratos Bichakis, Alexandra Bissa, Maria Sigma, George Adamopoulos and Viki Steiri. This workshop feeds directly into a forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph, co-authored by myself and Caterina Moruzzi. Together, we’re exploring how creativity is made, as a relational process between minds, materials, and machines, and what shifts when AI enters the loop. We will be sharing live documentation throughout the workshop thanks to Kevin Walker, so if you can’t be with us in person, keep an eye on the website for updates: https://lnkd.in/dsZqxeTd Huge thanks to the funders and supporters who are making this possible: Doric Shipbrokers S.A., ONASSIS FOUNDATION, Philosophy Machines, and the RKEI Fund, The University of Edinburgh College of Art —and to the N.H.M.A./Benaki Museum for hosting us. https://lnkd.in/dsZqxeTd

I’ve been selected as a 2026 Tory Burch Foundation Fellow! The Foundation, created by fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist Tory Burch in 2009, supports women entrepreneurs who are building, scaling, and leading impactful businesses. I am joyous because it comes at a perfect time as I step into the next season of VAWAA’s growth, and into a new season of my own leadership. Looking forward to everything that comes next and learning from Tory Burch herself, remarkable leaders like Tiffany Dufu, the Foundation team, mentors, and fellow founders walking their own brave paths. Excited to build stronger global artist economies and helping more people experience travel and mini-apprenticeships as paths to inspiration, creative renewal, and well-being. Thank you Tory Burch Foundation, ToryBurch, the #ToryBurchFellows community. Specially Katharine Campbell Hirst for encouraging me 🫶 You can learn more and see all the fellows at: https://lnkd.in/efzS8eny #ToryBurchFellows #ToryBurchFoundation #TBFFellow #WomenEntrepreneurs #VAWAA #HumanCreativity #CreativeTravel

A list of live Design/Creative leadership roles: 1. Froda - Head of Design (Stockholm) 2. Tacto - Head of Product Design (Munich) 3. Instabee - Design Director (Stockholm) 4. Yuki - Head of Product Design (Antwerpen) 5. The Irish Times - Head of Design (Dublin) 6. Joko - Head of Product Design (Paris/Barcelona) 7. Text - VP of Design (EU remote) 8. n8n - Head of Product Design (EU remote) 9. Skyscanner - Director of Product Design (Edinburgh/London/Barcelona) 10. OpenTable - Director of Product Design (London) 11. Monzo - Director of Product Design (Cardiff/London/Remote UK) 12. Duolingo - Creative Director (London) 13. Miro - AI Creative Director (CPH/London/Munich/NYC) 14. Nscale - Creative Director (London) 15. AKQA - Creative Director (Gothenburg) 16. Metalab - Brand Director (Remote) 17. Smartsheet - Director, Product Design (US remote) 18. ServiceTitan - Director, Product Design (US remote) There are some gems in there. I know of many more which are not publicly listed, so worth noting if you're looking for roles at this level.

Join us tomorrow for an evening of experiential learning, thoughtful conversation, and connection at New York's MUSEUM OF ICE CREAM with the Future of StoryTelling! Ed Purver, Creative Director at Moment Factory, will be joining a panel of creative experts to discuss the design and impact of experiential storytelling, alongside FoST Founder and CEO Charles Melcher. 🎟️ Tickets are still available! Secure your spot - https://lnkd.in/gMmwetP6 See you there!

I had a panic attack on 39th and 9th in NYC. It was 2009. I was 27. I walked past the hotdog vendor next to the Port Authority and things started to narrow in. I can still feel the warm bricks of the wall on my fingertips. I can hear the horns blaring. My vision went black. I was the co-founder and head of R/GA University at one of the most iconic agencies of all time. No kids. Creative inspiration everywhere. I just accepted two grad school offers: Columbia University and the University of Hawaii. I chose Columbia, as expected. I even went to orientation and found an apartment in Harlem. The family was proud. But clearly, something felt off. Columbia meant big debt, but a potential career rocketship. Hawaii meant a graduate assistantship, school and living paid. No more frozen car door handles in February. But deep down I knew it was not right…for me. Would I be throwing my career away if I left for Hawaii? How would my manager take this? My girlfriend (now wife)? I had momentum at R/GA! Would I end up wearing plastic leis and sipping Mai Tais all day?🍹 What ensued was two of the best, most intellectually stimulating and physically fit years of my life. Coaching native Hawaiian teachers on positive psych, working with local business leaders, surfing 5-6 days a week (and living on spam musubi). I had full focus to learn about how people actually learn. That was what was missing in NY! I stumbled into L&D at R/GA, making it up as I went. I needed that foundation of knowledge. I still reflect on my ‘culture of learning’ cohorts and talk about Vygotsky and the zone of proximal development to this day. (Both references made it into my new LinkedIn Learning course!) Career-wise, I think I landed where Columbia potentially could have taken me: LinkedIn, Google, Bain. The panic attack never happened again. I've learned to listen when my body tells me something before my brain catches up. 🟢 Careers are long. Don’t be afraid to make a move YOU believe in. 🧘‍♂️ Acknowledging men’s mental health month with this post. (Photo Banyan tree circa 2010, Waikiki.)