Pam August

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Potential: How to Connect What’s Already There for Exponential Impact

  Visionary, purpose-driven leaders recognize that there is untapped potential in their organizations — within individuals, between team members, and around the culture. Yet, they struggle to connect it for the impact and transformation they are after. Instead, the organizational experience is too often one of strain, swirl, or stuck, resulting in wasted energy, continuous frustration, and lack of forward movement.

  What if you could more “ease-fully” connect the potential that is already there for greater impact, influence, and results? What if the practice to make this a reality was simple?

  The great news is that you can and it is. During this experiential keynote with Pam August:

  • Discover the powerful impact of a single leadership mindset shift.
  • Harness the capability of your connect potential operating system and the operating systems you work with (hint: no app or software required).
  • Experience and take away a simple yet powerful three-part leadership practice to connect the potential within, between, and around you for exponential impact.

  All you need to do is bring yourself and your potential. Remember, it’s already there!

  August’s keynotes are custom-designed for the context and goals of the audience and event. There are also options to accompany this keynote:

  • A custom 90-minute continuation workshop to dive deep into the keynote takeaways that result in robust action plans.
  • Turn this keynote into a 2-3-hour keynote/workshop incorporating short “keynote bursts” and facilitated workshops.

• Moments that Matter and Dynamics by Design: Lead Culture Now

  Organizational culture is extremely important and significantly challenging in today’s uncertain and ever-changing world. It’s important because a thriving culture is critical to attracting and retaining top talent, providing the conditions for optimal performance, and driving strategic success. Challenging because it develops in emergent and unpredictable ways, with cultural best practices from one organization or “top ten” list falling flat or having unintended negative consequences.

  During this activational keynote, Pam August demonstrates simple yet powerful leadership actions that create the patterns and dynamics needed to foster cultures of clarity, connection, and commitment.

  Key learning outcomes include:

  • Get clear on what culture is and isn’t, and why it matters. (Hint: it’s not trust falls, teambuilders, values “rollouts” or ping pong tables.)
  • Discover why the best way to predict the future is to co-create it and how to make this happen now.
  • Experience the power of alignment, the pain of misalignment, and how to build in a practice of continuous realignment.
  • Appreciate the significance of “mattering matters” and how to develop the human-to-  human connective tissue essential to build cultures that matter.

  Participants will leave with a new mindset on leading cultures that thrive and three simple yet powerful practices to do it now.

  August’s keynotes are custom-designed for the context and goals of the audience and event. There are also options to accompany this keynote:

  • A custom 90-minute continuation workshop to dive deep into the keynote takeaways that result in robust action plans.
  • Turn this keynote into a 2-3-hour keynote/workshop incorporating short “keynote bursts” and facilitated workshops.

• Optimizing Our Most Potent Operating System for the Future of Work: Us

  When was the last time your brain rolled into work, logged onto a Teams meeting, or attended child’s sporting event? Didn’t think so.

  We move through our work and our lives in our bodies, and these wonderfully complicated and complex operating systems — much more than our brains above our ears — give us incredible capabilities beyond our physical movement: to act, feel, and think with energy, ease, and effectiveness. When they’re integrated.

  Today’s challenging and ever-changing world too often fragment us, leaving us strained, swirling, or stuck instead. Uncertainty is like an error message to our operating systems arresting our focus and disrupting forward movement, so we try harder with the brain above our ears. But the body always wins.

  Pam August weaves together leading-edge insights from neuroscience with simple yet powerful somatic (mind-body) experiences and practices that can be incorporated into work and life to optimize your acting, feeling, and thinking capacity and capabilities. Learn how to use your whole operating system and its resources to optimize itself. No AI, app, or yoga mat required.

  In this unique keynote experience, audiences will:

  • Connect the logic of neuroscience research to the lived experience of being in your body.
  • Appreciate the value of whole-body practices to optimize our thinking, feeling, and action.
  • Experience the power of somatic noticing, naming, and activation.
  • Take away simple strategies and practices to move from fragmentation to integration.

  It won’t hurt a bit.

  August’s keynotes are custom-designed for the context and goals of the audience and event.  There are also options for this keynote experience:

  • This keynote can be redesigned into a 2-hour workshop or half/full day immersive experience for retreat-style events.
  • The keynote elements can be delivered in short “Operating System Reboots” through-out events with a five-minute learning burst and five-minute experience. Think neuro-nerd meets conference energizer.