Micah Remley serves as the CEO of Robin, a pioneering workplace platform that places people at the heart of workplace design. In this role, he is dedicated to helping organizations foster dynamic work cultures and embrace hybrid and flexible work models. Before leading Robin, Micah was the CEO of MineralTree, an AP Automation SaaS company that was acquired by Global Payments in 2021. He also held senior leadership positions in operations, product, and marketing at EnerNOC, an energy management software company that grew from a startup to a NASDAQ-listed business during his tenure. Based in Boston, MA, Micah is passionate about the outdoors—spending his free time cycling, hiking, fly-fishing, or planning family backpacking trips to Yellowstone National Park.
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Micah
hey, great. Brett, thanks for having me today. I appreciate it. It’s great to be on the show. Yeah, absolutely. If our listeners get to know for the first time, would you give us just a little bit more about your story and your current focus? Yeah, sure. So, this is I’ve always been worked in growth startups. So, VC funded growth startups. I’ve been in my third one. Now that entrepreneurial part of building, especially in this day and age software companies, is really interesting to me. And what I loved about Robin power, Robin power, which I took over as CEO about three and a half years ago, was really building. I was a CEO myself then, and I looked at the challenges of building a successful company in this hybrid work world where people are in the office, sometimes they’re at home, sometimes, and what I saw was there’s really no good solutions in helping to solve that. So, I joined Robin power. And what I really love about that growth, growth journey for organizations is building companies. Its just like building anything else in your life. It’s a lot
of hard work. It takes a lot of gray hairs in my head from it, but it also is a lot of fun, and if I look at the most rewarding parts of my career, it’s always been that building and growth mode, and especially from relatively small scale to large scale. I love that in between piece there, and that’s where I’ve been focused for most of my career.
Brett
Fantastic. Micah, and you know, diving right into the show right which is building an elite workplace. What would you say is the first secret to doing just that? Yeah, think the first secret is to define what you’re just clearly, what you’re trying to accomplish and what the culture of your organization is. So, when we think about workplaces, what we often have found is pandemic happened. Everyone sent all their employees’ home, and then they have come back with a workplace strategy that lacks a lot of intentionality. They either said, all right, everyone just come back now, because that’s what we want to do, or they just said, all right, everyone works from home now, because that’s sort of easy, and that’s what employees want. And what we found is there’s just not a lot of not a lot of intentionality there. And I’ll describe something hybrid work, by the way, is how most companies are managing their workforces nowadays, which is the expectation that you spend some time in the office, and you spend some of the time working from home. But if I were to say those two words, hybrid work, to most employees, if I where to say that to employees, they would say, okay, hybrid work means I get to choose my company office, which, by the way, the stats show, Im not going to show up very often at all. I’m going to show up once, twice a month. Maybe that, if that, if you talk to employers and management teams and you said hybrid work, they’d say, Hey, I’m in the you’re in the office, two, three days a week, four days a week, but you have some flexibility to work from home when you need to that fundamental, that fundamental departure, that chasm, still exists five years after the pandemic, which is amazing. So, when you think about all the intentionality people put around building businesses, they’re still putting very little intentionality around what they want their workplace culture to be, what they want their workforce to look like, which is pretty incredible. So luckily, we have, we have the pleasure to work with a whole bunch of organizations that are thinking intentionally about that, which gives us a lot of takeaways to how you build truly exceptional organizations by thinking deeply about how your most important asset, which is your talent, what you want that workplace to look like, and how you develop a culture of success at your organization based on what your workplace is like. So, if you like this little, short clip of the interview, I.
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About Micah Remley
Micah Remley is the CEO of Robin, a trailblazing workplace platform that puts people before places, helping companies create vibrant, flexible, and hybrid work cultures.
Before joining Robin, Micah was the CEO of MineralTree, an AP Automation SaaS company that was acquired by Global Payments in 2021. Earlier in his career, he held executive leadership roles in operations, product, and marketing at EnerNOC, an energy management software company that evolved from a startup to a NASDAQ-listed enterprise under his leadership.
Based in Boston, MA, Micah is an avid outdoors enthusiast who enjoys cycling, hiking, fly-fishing, and planning family backpacking adventures in Yellowstone National Park.
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