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Alicia Navarro
Explore how modern teams can work with greater focus and connection with Alicia Navarro, tech entrepreneur and remote work expert. Alicia helps organisations build high-performing cultures and implement strategies for distributed teams, drawing from her success scaling Skimlinks to processing $1bn of sales a year and her virtual body doubling platform FLOWN.
Alicia Navarro is a technology entrepreneur and executive coach known for building and scaling global digital businesses, and for her work on focus, culture, and the future of work. Born in Sydney to Spanish and Cuban parents and now based in London, Alicia has built an international career across Australia, Europe, and the United States. She founded Skimlinks in 2007, growing it from a living room startup into a leading content-to-commerce platform used by thousands of publishers worldwide, including Buzzfeed, Conde Nast, Hearst, and AOL.
She spent more than a decade as CEO, leading the company to $50 million in annual revenues before stepping down ahead of its acquisition by Connexity in 2020. After Skimlinks, Alicia became an Entrepreneur in Residence at firstminute and Breega Capital, qualified as an executive coach, and began advising founders and leadership teams on growth, resilience, and culture. She is now founder and CEO of FLOWN, a platform helping knowledge workers achieve deep focus, accountability, and wellbeing in remote and hybrid environments, with particular impact for people with ADHD.
Alicia helps organisations build cultures that support innovation and sustained performance, drawing on her experience shaping the team culture at both Skimlinks and FLOWN. She shares practical insight into building and evolving products and businesses, grounded in real examples from raising venture funding during the 2008 financial crisis and pivoting her business model to reach scale and profitability. Audiences leave with concrete strategies for creating startup-style cultures within established organisations, techniques for maintaining focus in distracting work environments, and frameworks for clear thinking under uncertainty. Alicia delivers this openly, sharing both setbacks and successes from her own entrepreneurial journey.
Book Alicia Navarro to bring entrepreneurial insight and focus-driven leadership to your next event.
Topics, sessions and talks
Alicia Navarro explores what it takes to scale a startup, including the mindset and practical decisions required along the way. She shares lessons learned from building and exiting a global tech business, including the mistakes many founders make. Her honest reflections provide a grounded perspective on growth, leadership and resilience under pressure, making this session especially relevant for entrepreneurs and early-stage teams.
Alicia Navarro examines how product ideas move from concept to market by blending gut instinct with customer data. Drawing on her experience leading product strategy in tech startups, she shares techniques for understanding user behaviour, testing assumptions and iterating ideas at pace. The session offers a sharp look at innovation that balances bold thinking with grounded decision-making.
Alicia Navarro speaks candidly about her experience as a woman in tech and leadership. Framing her journey with humour and honesty, she challenges the traditional narratives around gender and power, while offering a fresh perspective on the value of feminine leadership traits. Her reflections draw on unexpected sources of inspiration and make a compelling case for new models of success in tech and beyond.
Alicia Navarro explores why so many organisations struggle to make remote and hybrid working truly effective, despite its growing prevalence. Drawing on her experience building global teams and leading FLOWN, she looks at the cultural habits, leadership behaviours, and operating rhythms that allow distributed teams to stay aligned, motivated, and productive. Alicia’s mix of commercial realism and human insight shows how organisations can create remote working environments where people and performance develop together.
Alicia Navarro introduces body doubling as a powerful neuroscience-based approach to improving focus, especially for neurodiverse and highly distracted employees. Drawing on her work at Flown and her background in technology and coaching, she explains how working alongside others, even virtually, changes attention, motivation, and emotional regulation. Alicia combines research with lived experience to show how organisations can support productivity, wellbeing, and inclusion in modern knowledge work.
Alicia Navarro brings unmatched insight into building high-performing global teams and creating cultures where remote work succeeds. She shares practical strategies for improving focus, supporting neurodiverse employees, and fostering collaboration in distributed teams. Book Alicia to create a work environment where people can concentrate, engage, and deliver their best results.
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frequently asked questions
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