Onboarding without an Office: How to Grow Teams Remotely without Slowing Down

James Tyack leads the Learner Success team at Coursera, creating engaging and personalized learning experiences for millions of learners worldwide. An avid user of Coursera and a lifelong learner himself, James is passionate about leveraging technology, including AI, to transform lives through education and community. Prior to Coursera, he led integration and growth teams at PagerDuty, driving innovation and adoption of incident response tools and best practices.

Beyond his professional work, James is the chapter lead for the South Bay Engineering Leadership Community (ELC) group, fostering collaboration among tech leaders. He is also a proud dad to a two-year-old, balancing his career and personal life with a deep commitment to growth and connection.

Wambui Kinya is VP, Partner Engineering at Andela, an engineering-as-a-service business that helps companies build remote teams quickly and cost-effectively. Andela has over 1000 software engineers working as full-time embedded members of development teams at over 200 leading tech companies. Wambui was formerly Group Managing Director, Pan Africa and South America, for global technology consulting firm ThoughtWorks. Currently based in Nairobi, Wambui has been in the professional services (digital, mobile marketing and technology consulting) industry for over eighteen years and has worked in North America, Europe and Africa for companies such as Praekelt Consulting, IBM Global Business Services and Digitas (Publicis Groupe).