August Turak will speak to the EPA in Raleigh, NC on May 26th, 2011.

Trade Secrets: How to Guarantee a Satisfying, Successful Career When: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 @ 12:00pm. Where: Central Piedmont Community College – Harper Campus, Student Lounge – Room 341, Charlotte, NC

AugustTurak.com is proud to announce that Mr. Turak recently completed his first worldwide workshop for the marketing team at SAS. This workshop was held at SAS headquarters in Cary, NC in February 2011. Want to hear what SAS employees thought of August Turak’s newest interactive event? Feedback is still coming in from the workshop and will [...]

When: January 22, 2010 @ 9:00am
Where: Fajardo, Puerto Rico

August will be a keynote speaker at the Carolinas Associated General Contractors 90th Annual Convention.

What Bolsters the Bottom Line? Selfless Marketing

When: January 20, 2011 @ 11:30am.
Where: Brier Creek Country Club, Morrisville, NC

In this short lunch presentation, Turak builds on his recent Advertising Age article to reveal the marketing power behind the Megatrend of the 21st century [...]

What’s the Business of Business? Leadership Lessons on Making Meaning and Millions When: Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM Where: Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Durham NC What makes a great leader? Is success a function of skills or something much bigger? Why is most leadership training a waste of money? How do we stop managing and [...]

Service and Selflessness

Maximizing Your Organization’s Results

When: Thursday, December 9, 2010

Workshop 2:30-4:30pm

Reception 4:30-7:30pm.

Where: New Horizons Learning Center, Grand Rapids, MI

Dont miss your chance to elevate the mission of your organization to one of service and selflessness, differentiating your business from your competitors by using the emerging mega-trend of the 21st century that connects brands and customers [...]

When: November 9, 2010 @ 5:00pm.
Where: Charlottesville, VA

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When: November 4, 2010 @ 11:15am.
Where: Charleston, SC

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Now, Turak is back for a Part 2 interview October 25, 2010 @ 1:00pm. Listen in at that time or after on the Breakfree to Success site.

The Future of Work: Transcending Capitalism, or Why Adam Smith Was Only Half Right. When: October 20, 2010 @ 3:00pm. Where: Eden Roc, Miami, FL.

When: October 15, 2010 @ 1:00pm.
Where: Starmount Forest Country Club, Greensboro, NC

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Camping out on August Turak’s farm turned retreat center for a weekend focused on intense application of service and selflessness is exactly what these executives were looking for [...]

What do Trappist monasteries, Alcoholics Anonymous, The U.S. Marine Corps, and the world’s greatest companies all have in common? [...]

With a thorough explanation of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces and it’s transformative applications to the everyday non-hero lives we all lead, this is [...]

Using examples and case studies from his own career as an award winning author, corporate executive, and successful entrepreneur, August Turak took the Young Professionals Network on a whirlwind tour of [...]

August’s presentation to the West Michigan American Marketing Association on how the desire of every human being for transformation leads to an underutilized marketing opportunity and ultimate business lesson in service and selflessness spurred many of the attendees into immediate action. During the luncheon, many people [...]

Turak discusses his secrets for becoming a successful entrepreneur. Always aim past the target; have a higher goal than making money. Higher missions can and should be intimately connected to [...]

Don’t miss August Turak’s interview with NPR’s Mike Collins this Friday, 8/27 at 9:00 AM. Listen live in Charlotte on 90.7FM or listen online.

Turak met Joel Wiggins when they were both invited to speak at a recent TEDxTriangle event. Find out how that encounter led to Augie hosting the show in Joel’s absence.

With the explosion of technology, the marketing clutter is deafening. Cuting through the noise requires creativity, passion, and most of all, trust. How are these essential ingredients fostered in our organizations?

Don’t miss this provocative interview of August Turak on the award-winning radio show, Empowerment Hour, with Joel Wiggins! Listen in as Turak shares the leadership secrets from the IBM Executive School he absorbed as the protégé to the legendary founder and first director of the IBM Executive School, Louis R. Mobley.  Lessons he later used to build [...]

The Alchemy of Transformation: Scrooge and the Purpose of Life. August Turak was interviewed on A New Way to Handle Absolutely Everything with Elese Coit. The show is on the Internet, UpSnap Mobile Streaming, KWRM 106.9FM-HD3 in Seattle and on the Telstar Satellite Network. Elese is an international radio show personality who hosts A New [...]

Former MTV executive, Zen philosopher speaks on “Aiming Past the Target.” As part of the Duke University Self Knowledge Symposium’s Secrets of Success 20th anniversary event series, veteran businessman, former software CEO, and Zen philosopher August Turak gave a lecture on Aiming Past the Target: Zen and the Art of Entrepreneurship, the distilled lessons of [...]

In this Greenwich Leadership Forum event with David Miller, Director of Princeton University’s Faith and Work Initiative, Turak credits the spiritual business model of service and selflessness that he learned while living with Trappist monks for his worldly success…

“Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world” In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. Mr. Turak was invited to speak at the TEDxTriangleNC event on March 6th. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events bringing people together to share a TED-like experience. At the TEDxTriangleNC [...]

“What we all want is purpose and meaning in our lives and what we all fear is that we will not find that purpose and meaning in our life’s work.”

In this lecture Turak will draws on his experience as the protégé of Lou Mobley, the man who founded the IBM Executive School, 14 years working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, and years studying under West Virginian Zen master, Richard Rose to describe [...]

The lecture was a huge success. Hundreds attended the Business Secrets of the Trappists lecture at Duke University, where August Turak explained [...]

Frank Stasio interviewed Turak on his award winning radio show The State of Things. The first segment detailed Turak’s decision at 21 to trade in his clunker of middle-class normality for a new identity as a full-time spiritual seeker and part-time carpet installer. Next we meet Richard Rose, the wild, wonderful, West Virginia hillbilly and Zen [...]