Welcome back to the teammate apart podcast. Today’s special guest is executive and performance coach, and HR & Operations Manager at Aragon One, Monica Zeng. Monica is a people-first HR professional in the Crypto space with an international background specialized in strategy, management, and executive coaching for startups and founders. She joins us today to discuss her innovative, fully remote, hiring process,  coaching team members on soft and leadership skills, onboarding at a distance, and the importance of self-assessment and evaluation. Calling in from Madrid, Spain, please join me in welcoming to the show, the incredible, Monica Zeng. 

Our Guest
Monica Zeng
HR Business Partner, Executive & Performance Coach. 
HR & Operations Manager at Aragon One.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roumonicazeng/
https://aragon.one/

About Monica Zeng
All about humans: how they organize, interact, and grow. My name is Monica and I am the person in charge of human resources at Aragon One.

My main focus is to grow the Aragon One family by hiring people that are aligned with our vision and culture and increasing the team's leverage through management and coaching. Fun fact, I never watched Billions but some people mentioned that I remind them of Wendy Rhodes.

I have Asian roots, grew up in Spain and have worked internationally in places such as Silicon Valley. Therefore I have inherited the Asian work culture and a love for technology and the entrepreneurial spirit, while still remaining a big fan of spending a nice afternoon with friends and good food on a terrace in Madrid.

My journey has been a squiggly line. I started out with social entrepreneurship when I was sixteen and then moved to Madrid to study a dual degree in Business Administration and International Relations. It was then that I realized that I enjoyed learning by working more than I did by sitting in a classroom, so I made the decision to drop out after my first year and move to Silicon Valley. I went from being a consistent straight-A student to rejecting the traditional academic system and building my own path. (Against all odds, I had full family support.) There I began my career working in International Expansion Marketing but because of Visa reasons, I had to return to Spain.

After returning, I led a startup incubator. Through that experience, I discovered my passion for psychology and management. Around that time I learned more about the blockchain space through Luis and Jorge and became attracted to the whole vision. I then founded an HR agency for crypto projects, moved to Switzerland and finally joined Aragon One full time.

Moving every six months to a different city/country has been an interesting experience, but I couldn’t be happier to be back to living the Spanish lifestyle!

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