Pam August

Moments that Matter: Leading Culture NOW

It’s said that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste”.  The global pandemic has unfrozen us from long held patterns of being, united us in a “remember when moment”, and created a uniquely sticky time which is valuable for shaping your culture — now. What are the things that you want to have stick for your organization? What are the most important ways of being you want to embed moving forward?

During this activating keynote:

• Get clear on why now and what it means to lead culture by design not default in a way that feels organic, not orchestrated.
• Discover why the best way to predict the future is to co-create it and how to make this happen.
• Take away the simplest actions that most powerfully signal and shape a new way forward.
• Experience the power of “mattering matters” and how it builds the human-to-human connective tissue essential to build cultures that matter.

The Potential Ecosystem: Connecting the Potential You Know Is There

Perhaps the biggest challenge we face in organizational life is that we focus on what is missing — the ‘problem’, rather than what is already there — the ‘potential’. What starts with a shift in frame from ‘problem’ to ‘potential’, continues in a multi-dimensional, generative, and energizing journey of uncovering, aligning, and activating the potential that lives in the organizations we are part of.

During this experiential keynote:

• Identify and unpack the three key dimensions of potential that simultaneously live in all organizations – and why it matters to focus on all three.
• Discover why aligning at the core is critical to unlocking potential for top performance in all dimensions – and how to do it.
• Take away practical and powerful approaches to connect the potential where you work and where you live.

Simple Moves for Complex Times: Moving Through Challenge with ‘Ease-fullness’

Volatile. Uncertain. Complex. Ambigious. – V.U.C.A. – an acronym that explains why ‘humaning’ in work or in life, particularly over the past number of months, has been and will continue to be challenging. Words like “stressed, strained, stuck” are commonly used to describe the states we too often find ourselves in when what we desire is something more like, “energy, ease, effectiveness”. What if we could meet complexity and move through the challenges we face with greater “ease-fullness?”  We can and the solution is simpler than we think.

Informed by both modern neuroscience research and ancient wisdom traditions, this experiential session offers a ‘whole-sum’ approach to activating our whole selves (and others around us) for greater performance and impact.

Experience in this insightful and energizing keynote:

• Why the body always wins and what to do about it.
• Neuroscience in action – important insights are both experienced and explained.
• A simple yet profound three-part practice that can be done anytime you need to shift your state and/or the states of others.