About Remotely Ambitious
Helping remote professionals build careers that keep moving forward.
Remote work has transformed the way millions of people work. It offers greater flexibility, autonomy, and access to opportunities than ever before. It has also changed how careers develop.
In an office, many of the things that helped people succeed happened almost automatically. Relationships formed through everyday interactions. Good work was noticed because people saw it. Junior employees learned by observing experienced colleagues. Trust developed through repeated, informal contact.
Remote work removes many of those advantages. The need for relationships, meaningful contribution, and a strong professional reputation has not disappeared. It has simply become more intentional.
Remotely Ambitious exists to help remote professionals and remote-first organisations thrive in this new environment. Through practical guidance grounded in research and real-world experience, the goal is simple: to ensure that working remotely never comes at the expense of a rewarding career or a thriving organization.
Why “Remotely Ambitious”?
Remotely has two meanings. It can mean from a distance, but it can also mean to a very small degree.
The professionals this site is for are anything but remotely ambitious. They are deeply ambitious. They want to solve meaningful problems, build fulfilling careers, and make a lasting contribution. Working remotely should not require them to lower those aspirations.
The challenge is that remote work changes how careers are built. Relationships, visibility, mentoring, collaboration, and reputation no longer develop automatically. They must be created intentionally.
That is the idea behind Remotely Ambitious.
Tim Hampton, Founder
The inspiration for Remotely Ambitious came during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the time, Tim Hampton was director of IT at the fine arts faculty of York University. Almost overnight, thousands of faculty members, staff, and students found themselves working, teaching, and learning remotely. Like organisations around the world, the university was adapting in real time to an entirely new way of working.
To help, Tim launched a series of Zoom sessions called Remotely Interesting. Initially, the sessions focused on practical topics such as setting up an effective home office, using Zoom and Moodle, and navigating issues such as online assessment and intellectual property. As the series evolved, they became something much richer. Experts from across the university shared their knowledge, answered questions, and helped one another solve problems. During an extraordinarily difficult period, the sessions created a genuine sense of community. Many participants described them as a lifeline.
The experience proved transformative.
Having spent more than thirty years leading technology teams and supporting teaching and learning in higher education, Tim had long been interested in how people adapt to new ways of working. The success of Remotely Interesting reinforced an important insight: when people are separated by distance, the human connections that naturally develop in classrooms, offices, and hallways do not disappear, but they do have to be created deliberately.
He came to believe the same principle applies to work.
Remote work does not diminish ambition, creativity, or collaboration. It changes how those qualities are expressed. The office once provided visibility, mentoring, informal learning, and professional relationships almost by default. Remote work requires those same advantages to be cultivated intentionally.
That insight became the foundation for Remotely Ambitious.
Today, Tim combines more than three decades of leadership experience with research in organisational behaviour, psychology, leadership, and remote work to help professionals and organisations build stronger careers, stronger teams, and stronger workplace cultures in a digital-first world.
His belief is straightforward: the future of work is not about returning to the office or abandoning it. It is about learning how to succeed wherever work happens.