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Prepared for TMX · US Leadership
August × TMX

A partnership to get team effectiveness, leadership, and culture right for the US — built for where you are now and where you’re heading next.

June 2026
Context for today
What we heard

From our April 27 conversation with Cindy Bush.

1 The US is scaling from ~200 to 1,000 people in 2–3 years — largely through acquisition.
2 The US needs its own playbook. The March offsite reset board design, employee experience, and culture for the US market.
3 HRBPs are running 25 leadership offsites this year. Internal capacity is stretched as acquisition integration keeps stacking.
4 The next 6–9 months are the window to get team effectiveness, culture, and infrastructure right before it gets harder.
Closing the gap between
ambition and reality
The Ambition
Your big idea

August, the world’s leading partner for visionary leaders who want to transform the way they work

The Challenge
Work is broken
Bureaucracy Bloated teams Slowness Meeting overload Decision gridlock Death by consensus Fear of failure Burnout AI theater
The real problem
The lies we love are holding us back
1 “We just need a better strategy to win.”
2 “Superstar talent leads to superstar teamwork.”
3 “Working harder leads to better results.”
Strategy, talent, and effort are essential, but they’re not enough.

We need to change the way we work.

We’re here to help
There’s a better way to work.

Organizing
for Impact

Deciding in
Uncertainty

Designing
for Learning

Partnering with AI

Our Capabilities
How We Transform
the Way You Work

We help organizations build the conditions for teams to do their best work — and sustain it.

Teams

Accelerate how teams collaborate, decide, and deliver

Services
Team Integration Support
Priority Team Coaching
Off-Sites & Workshops

Leaders

Align leaders around a shared vision and ways of leading

Services
Big Moment Facilitation
High Potential Program Design

Systems

Design the structures, rituals, and processes that enable great work

Services
Organizational Design
Workflow & Decision Design

Culture

Define the values, behaviors, capabilities, practices, and norms

Services
Culture Reset & Activation
Practice Playbooks
AI Embedded across every intervention — augmenting how teams work, leaders decide, systems run, and culture takes shape

You can enter through any door. We’ll help you transform the whole system.

Where we could start
Four doors built for the US moment

Tailored for the US team — calibrated to where you are now and where you’re heading next.

Offer 01

Off-Site Support

Senior facilitators embedded alongside your HRBPs — augmenting stretched internal capacity to support leadership off-sites at the scale you’ve already committed to.

Offer 02

Team Integration Coaching

Identify the highest-need teams across your acquisition pipeline — and embed senior coaches and advisors who help them integrate faster and stronger.

Offer 03

Team Effectiveness at Scale

Priority team coaching, a teaming playbook, and a roadshow that turns your highest-performing teams into culture bearers across the business.

Offer 04

US Redesign

Rethink employee experience, culture, and infrastructure for the US market — designed for your trajectory, not transplanted from Canada.

What this looks like in practice
From four principles to a movement.

The full story of how August turns leadership principles into everyday practice: the PepsiCo turnaround published by Harvard Business Review, a deep dive on how Colgate-Palmolive made F.E.E.D. the way 34,000 people work, and the McCain engagement now at 556+ practitioners.

New Ways of Working: An Impact Study