SAIS Webinar | Teams that Meet the Moment
Zoom
Event Details
Most leaders have already tried the obvious fixes, a sharper strategy, a stronger talent bench, more hours in the day, and still find their teams stuck: slow to decide, drowning in alignment meetings, watering down bold ideas until they're safe and forgettable. This talk makes the case that the real unlock isn't strategy, talent, or effort, it's the quality of everyday teamwork. Drawing on a decade of embedded work with organizations from PepsiCo to fast-scaling startups to NYC Public Schools, Karina Mangu-Ward walks through nine simple, research-backed practices that consistently turn stalled teams into ones that ship, adapt, and actually enjoy the work. Attendees leave with a practical, no-retreat-required playbook for building teams that can meet a moment that keeps changing.
Registration:
Members $0 | Non-Members $39
Who Should Attend: Academic Administrators, Admissions/Enrollment, Advancement/Development, Assistant Heads, Business Office, Division Heads, Department Chairs, Deans of Students, Ed Tech, First-Time Heads, and Heads of School
Speaker: Karina Mangu-Ward, partner, August
Karina Mangu-Ward is a partner at August, a consultancy that helps organizations transform the way they work to thrive in an uncertain world. At August, she’s had the privilege of working with some of the most impactful and complex organizations in the world to rethink their teaming habits and build cultures of experimentation, trust, and learning. Before August, her adventures included conducting research on implicit bias, helping arts organizations behave as creatively behind the scenes as they do on stage, and running social innovation labs. If you buy her a coffee, she'll tell you how these experiences led her to exactly where she is now. Her motto is “get caught trying,” which means she’d rather try and screw it up than not try at all. She lives with her partner and kids in Brooklyn, New York.