Synopsis

Our ability to come together has shifted. What once happened within office walls now happens in a digital square, whether you’re in an office or the corner of your home.

Most organisations were never designed to be remote-first, and they’re now in transition. The office culture that once let connection flow easily is eroding, and fast. The real question isn’t how many days a week people should sit in an office. It’s how they connect with one another, wherever in the world they are. The pain point is the same everywhere: people stay close to their direct team, but the further they get from one another, the more transactional communication becomes. And when, we gather people at scale, those spaces turn passive. So suddenly you’ve become a “cameras off” organisation without ever deliberately deciding to be.

Come Together gives you the frameworks, methods and case studies to stop letting culture just happen and start shaping it on purpose. This isn’t another book about managing your team remotely. It’s about designing culture across an entire organisation. It’s a practical toolkit designed to dip in and out of, whether you’re a Chief of Staff planning a year of gatherings, a CEO frustrated by siloed ways of working or a leader watching engagement scores fall.

The book will invite you to:

• Map your organisational culture across its invisible and visible layers
  
• Recognise where your organisation is in the transition, and where you can lean into practices that help people connect
  
• Understand the neuroscience of why connection is harder at a distance
  
• Ask why you’re gathering people, and where you want them to get from and to, before you set an agenda
  
• Design gatherings of hundreds that people take part in, not just sit through
  
• Try routines and rituals that rebuild trust across teams
  

Why me?

At 17, I worked on a factory conveyor belt making desserts for a national supermarket, and at lunch I noticed the tables: the locals who'd worked the conveyor belts for decades, the outsiders, the young people like me passing through on a four month stint. It was the first time I saw how culture forms, where kind connects with kind. In every organisation I’ve worked in since, I’ve been acutely tuned into how culture is formed, and how easily it’s stripped away.

Since I stepped away from leading within an organisation in 2021, I’ve facilitated thousands of people across the world, specialising in online experiences that bring hundreds of people together to engage and connect across teams and departments, for clients including the British Red Cross, Citizens Advice and SUEZ.

Through my work with leaders to connect their dispersed organisations, I’ve developed tools and methods that make it easier for them to design their culture intentionally instead of letting it happen. Come Together is the culmination of all that work. 

Sales arguments

• Distributed work is now the default, but most organisations were built for the office. Gallup finds that just 21% of US employees in remote-capable jobs work fully on-site, while 54% are hybrid and 25% fully remote (August 2026). The culture that once spread through proximity is eroding, and most leaders have no practical way to rebuild it.
• Remote work measurably siloes organisations. A Nature Human Behaviour study of more than 61,000 Microsoft employees found that remote work left people more siloed in how they communicate. When teams stay close and the rest of the organisation drifts, trust and collaboration across teams suffer.
• I have 10,000 followers on LinkedIn, where my content reached over 650,000 impressions and drew 16,240 engagements in the past year. My audience is made up of Chiefs of Staff, HR and L&D leaders, and executives at distributed organisations.

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Audience

Leaders of remote and dispersed organisations

Advance praise

“Perle’s ability to design and facilitate meaningful experiences is unparalleled—whether working with individuals or teams, she tailors her approach to ensure everyone is involved and invested.”

It's rare to find someone who brings both creativity and structure. She just knows how make content come alive. If the medium is the message, Perle's design is the content. 

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