AGL 470: Karina Mangu-Ward

About Karina

teamsKarina has a decade of experience partnering with leading nonprofits, foundations, city agencies, and community stakeholders. At August, Karina is an organizational design consultant who helps nurture more creative, self-managing and productive teams. She’s partnered with New York City’s Department of Education, Sundance Institute, Planned Parenthood, PepsiCo and Chanel. Prior to joining August, she worked for 10 years with nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and community networks tackling complex organizational and social challenges. Her passion is helping groups navigate ambiguity, gain insight, and unlock highly complex challenges.

Today We Talked About

  • Her Background
  • Theater and Psychology
  • Human side of AI
  • Agile Ways of Working
  • Teams That Meet the Moment
  • Why your org chart may be quietly killing innovation
  • The “team charter” revolution: how making roles explicit accelerates clarity and growth
  • Meetings are broken: the structural reset that eliminates decision paralysis
  • “Safe to try”: how high-performing teams move forward without waiting for consensus
    • Chunking work down
    • Cycle’s of reflection
    • The world moves too fast now to be perfect
  • Why “progress over perfection” drives faster, healthier transformation
  • Four small team tweaks that could immediately improve your workweek
  • Why shared habits and shared language are so important for teams right now.
  • It would be great to touch on two practices from the book about how to make decisions as a team in a world that never sits still: safe to try and even overs.
  • The role of leaders in supporting exceptional team work.
  • The shift that AI is going to bring for technical and creative leaders.
  • Lies about Performance:
    • Better Strategy
    • Superstar talent, leads to superstar teamwork
  • One way doors and two way doors
  • Even overs
  • Move fast and fix things
  • Work in Public

 

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May 22, 2026
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