A milestone for resilient business and distributed leadership
Valencia knows what disruption looks like. After last year’s floods paralysed transport and business for months, many local companies learned the hard way that continuity can’t depend on goodwill and good weather. It depends on being ready for anything, and quick to respond when circumstances change.
That’s why this autumn, the Remote Resilience Hub is proud to mark the launch of Remote Readiness: A Practical Framework for Leading Distributed Teams – a book that distills twenty-five years of remote-work practice into a clear, actionable system for leaders and organisations. Written by our cofounder, Maya Middlemiss, the framework is already shaping how Valencia’s innovation community thinks about business continuity in a volatile world.
“Remote readiness isn’t just about flexible working,” says Maya. “It’s about ensuring that work can continue — smoothly, confidently, and securely — whatever happens outside the office walls.”
From framework to ecosystem
The Remote Readiness framework, built around the 5 Cs — Culture, Communication, Console, Collaboration, and Connection — is now the foundation for the Hub’s consulting and training work with local businesses. It helps leaders diagnose where friction, delay, or fragility show up in their teams and replace improvised fixes with intentional design.
This structured approach complements RRH’s broader mission: helping Valencia’s organisations build the systems and skills they need to keep operating through disruption, whether caused by extreme weather, infrastructure failure, or global shocks.
“We’ve seen too many companies treat remote capability as a temporary measure,” Maya explains. “True readiness means embedding resilience into every layer, from leadership mindset to digital tools and local contingency planning.”
Technology with purpose
Alongside the human-centred framework introduced in the book, the Hub’s technical projects continue to strengthen Valencia’s resilience infrastructure.
- AI-supported onboarding tools translate the principles of the 5 Cs into daily operations, guiding new team members through policies, bureaucracy, and culture asynchronously, so they can contribute from day one, even if the office is offline. These bots are ready to deploy on corporate networks for ultimate customisation.
- The LORA communications fallback network, developed through our collaboration with the Valencia Innovation Council, provides a low-bandwidth local-mesh system to keep critical information flowing during connectivity outages.
Together, these innovations demonstrate the Hub’s belief that technology should serve people, not the other way round. And that human and digital readiness must evolve hand in hand.
Valencia as a living laboratory
Valencia offers the perfect testbed for this approach. With its mix of startups, public institutions, and international talent, the region mirrors the challenges faced by many European cities adapting to hybrid and cross-border work.
The Hub’s readiness initiatives align with local policy goals around sustainability, digitalisation, and regional cohesion – ensuring that resilience thinking is not just reactive crisis management, but a competitive advantage for growth.
From readiness to resilience
The launch of Remote Readiness marks more than a publishing milestone; it’s a big step forward in how we help organisations prepare for whatever comes next. The framework gives leaders a language and a method for diagnosing weakness, improving collaboration, and designing systems that sustain performance through uncertainty.
For Valencia businesses, this means one clear message: resilience is not a luxury, but a capability to be cultivated. And readiness – remote, digital, and human – is where it begins.