Transform Culture and Engagement the Agile Way.
Most organizations know their culture and engagement need work. Few know how to fix it in a way that actually sticks. The ACE Manifesto gives HR leaders, managers, and employees a practical, Agile-based framework for building better workplaces together, producing real improvements quickly and repeatedly.
What Is the ACE Manifesto?
ACE stands for Agile Culture and Engagement. It's a practical framework that borrows the core principles of Agile, the same approach that transformed software development, and applies them to the way organizations build culture and engage their people.
Most culture and engagement efforts fail not because organizations don't care, but because the strategies are too slow, too top-down, and too disconnected from day-to-day reality. ACE changes that by putting the process in the hands of the people who live it every day: HR, managers, and employees working together in short, focused cycles that produce real, measurable improvements.
It's not a one-size-fits-all program. It's a living, adaptable system your organization makes its own.
Beyond the Pages
The ACE Manifesto website is your companion to the framework explored in the book. Whether you've read the book or are just discovering ACE, you'll find practical tools and resources here to help you put the framework into action right away.
Explore the Resources: Access additional Micro-Practices, Engagement Activities, and a printable Goal Setting worksheet to complement what's in the book.
Use the Tools: Try the Engagement and Culture Cost Calculator to understand the real cost of disengagement in your organization, or use the Feedback Prompt Generator to craft better, more actionable feedback conversations.
Join the Community: Create a free account to save your progress, track your resources, and access member-only content as the site grows.
The ACE Manifesto: The Book
Most business books tell you what to think. The ACE Manifesto shows you what it looks like in practice.
Every instructional chapter is paired with a chapter of fiction following Dawgavron, a mid-sized company stalled on every metric that matters, as its leadership team discovers and implements the ACE framework in real time. You get the framework, then immediately watch it play out in a workplace that probably feels familiar. The result is a book that reads like a workplace drama but functions like a playbook.
Inside you'll find a complete operational toolkit: 26 Micro-Practices, survey question banks, goal-setting worksheets, and team-based workshop activities, with extended versions of many available right here on this site.
Put the Framework into Action
The ACE Manifesto website includes a growing suite of practical tools designed to help you apply the framework immediately. No theory, no fluff, just tools that do real work.
Engagement and Culture Cost Calculator: Disengagement has a price tag most organizations never calculate. This tool helps you estimate the real financial cost of low engagement and cultural dysfunction in your organization, so you can make the case for change with numbers, not just intuition.
Feedback Prompt Generator: Good feedback is one of the most powerful drivers of engagement and culture, and one of the hardest things to get right. The Feedback Prompt Generator helps managers and employees craft clear, constructive, actionable feedback prompts tailored to real workplace situations.
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