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Board Culture Playbook | A Conversation with Lori Nishiura Mackenzie and Barbara Adachi | August Public

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Interview: How Inclusive Cultures Build More Effective Boards

The Four Cornerstones for Building REAL Trust | August Public

The Four Cornerstones for Building REAL Trust

When people think of building organizati...

A Modern, Agile Approach to Strategic Planning | August Public

Your traditional strategic planning process isn’t working. A Strategy Sprint can help.

At the end of every fiscal year, leaders...

Operationalizing Equity and Inclusion at NYC Public Schools | August Public

Operationalizing Equity and Inclusion at NYC Public Schools

New York City is home to the nation’s la...

August 8-Year Retrospective: Powering the Future of Work with Everyday Human Habits | August Public

August 8-Year Retrospective: Powering the Future of Work with Everyday Human Habits

Eight years ago, I found myself taking a...

AI Has Ethical Issues. Here's What Leaders Can Do. | August Public

AI Has Ethical Issues. Here's What Leaders Can Do.

AI has been raising moral concerns in ou...

Scaling Agile Ways of Working at PepsiCo | August Public

Scaling Agile Ways of Working at PepsiCo

PepsiCo came to August seeking support f...

5 reasons why your CHRO should be leading the conversation about AI | August Public

5 reasons why your CHRO should be leading the conversation about AI

When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, many ...

How Human-AI Collaboration Will Shape the Future of Work | August Public

How Human-AI Collaboration Will Shape the Future of Work

Adapted from Karina’s featured talk at t...

Your Decision Making Methods Can Improve DEI and Drive Culture Change | August Public

Your Decision Making Methods Can Improve DEI and Drive Culture Change

Decision making is, for the most part, a...

Leadership Development and Decision Making | August Public

Why Your Leadership Development Program Should Focus On Decision Making

Decision making is foundational to every...

4 Strategies for Leading Mission-Driven Change | August Public

4 Strategies for Leading Mission-Driven Change

Leading change can be lonely work. Somet...

Pivot Solar Decision Making | August Public

Pivot Energy Uses Decision Making to Scale Execution & Impact

The August Team was incredibly lucky to ...

August Public | Decision Making Model

How to Pick the Right Decision Making Model

Decisions are foundational to an organiz...

OKR Training Framework | August Public

Demystifying OKRs: A Training Framework for Leaders & Managers

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are cr...

Team Building Activities for Psychological Safety | August Public

5 Team Building Activities to Create Psychological Safety

A great team builder can define the tone...

August pal Tirzah Enumah smiles at a colleague (off camera) in a Brooklyn conference room.

3 Keys to Succeeding as an Agile Project Sponsor

The fundamental ways that companies work...

Six August pals brainstorm new ideas on a sidewalk porch in New York City.

Top 3 Team Decision Blockers - And How to Unblock Them

When it comes to collaborative decision-...

5 Innovative Tactics to Scale Transformation

Changing an organization’s established w...

August pals Tirzah Enumah and Alexis Gonzales-Black high-five each other on a New York sidewalk.

4 Cultural Takeaways From Our Summer Fridays Experiment

In Summer 2022, August embarked on its f...

How the 4-Day Work Week Helps Us Redefine Our Worth as Employees

In Summer 2022, August embarked on its f...

Equity+ Roundtable: DEI Problems Need Focused Solutions.

This month we held our second Equity+ Ro...

3 Ways to Measure Your Equity & Inclusion Impact

At August, one of our four levers of org...

Analysis: August’s 4-Day Work Week yielded big business benefits.

In Summer 2022, August embarked on its f...

For a successful 4-day work week, set boundaries up front.

In Summer 2022, August embarked on its f...

The Subtle Art of Checking In

7 ways to open meetings with intention, ...

August pals smile and greet each other in downtown Denver, with the cityscape in the background.

August Retrospective: What we’ve learned in 7 years of organizational transformation

My pals and I co-founded August seven ye...

Sherian Feaster smiles at Alexis Gonzales-Black during an August team meeting

4 Tips for Better Decision-Making

With workplaces in a state of near-const...

From Great Workshops to Greater Impact

Here are 6 ways to build momentum on you...

The August team gathers around a friendly dog in a city plaza, giving scritches and smiles.

Inclusive leadership isn’t just a behavior – it’s a mindset.

What makes an inclusive leader? There ar...

Mike Arauz sits at a conference room, smiling and gesturing with both hands as he speaks to fellow team members.

5 Secrets of Leading Successful Change

A common question I often hear when I st...

3 tips for making equitable decisions in crisis mode

A conversation with social justice leade...

ERGs aren’t as inclusive as you might think.

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), also kn...

What’s wrong with the RACI model?

Why RACI doesn’t work, and the decision-...

For equitable hybrid work, instead of either-or, try even-over.

I’m not a fan of the “either-or” binary....

Improving Speed & Quality of Decision Making at Pacific Life Insurance | August Public

Improving Speed & Quality of Decision Making at Pacific Life Insurance

The August Team was incredibly lucky to ...

Interview with Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy about Big Feelings

We need to make space for big feelings a...

Want to get work done? Start with emotional connection

As March, Q2, and winter come to a close...

How to Choose Your Hybrid Work Model

Hybrid work has been a tough transition ...

Two brilliant cuties and August pals Cassidy Jones and Erica Seldin rocking a hybrid meeting

Hybrid work isn’t just a technical challenge – it’s a culture shift

As return-to-work plans are delayed for ...

Playbook: From Diversity to Racial Equity

In June 2020, millions of people across ...

Good Decision Making Drives Inclusion and Belonging

This blog post is co-authored by Alexis ...

Good Decisions Start with Clear Advice

Decision making can be better and faster...

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