Relational Leadership Consultant
Teacher Pedagogy Coach
Keynote Speaker
Organizational Culture “Fixer”
Who is Augy Jones?
Agassou “Augy” Jones is a vanguard in educational leadership and inclusive practice. He most recently served as Executive Director of African Nova Scotian Affairs with the Nova Scotia provincial government, administering more than $1.5M in community-focused funding and leading a multidisciplinary team working alongside African Nova Scotian communities across the province. Before that, as Principal of Nova Scotia Community College’s Akerley campus, he oversaw a busy trades campus of more than 2,000 students and 160 staff, deepening community partnerships, strengthening apprenticeship pathways, and guiding the development of a new student housing complex.
A former academic All-Canadian at St. Francis Xavier University, where he earned his BA, BEd, and MEd, Augy has held a range of roles that all circle the same core work: people, systems, and change. As Executive Lead for Inclusive Education, he helped implement a provincial policy that touched over 130,000 students across 400 schools and 7 regional centres. As Director of the African Canadian Services Branch, he helped develop the province’s first Racial Incident Report Protocol and the African Nova Scotian Education Framework. His earlier chapters as a high school English teacher and literacy coach, varsity women’s basketball head coach, and Manager of Student Experience at StFX all sharpened his ability to hold complexity, build trust, and lead with both clarity and care. Rooted in the legacy of his parents, civil rights activists Rocky and Joan Jones, Augy is known as a thoughtful strategist and steady presence whose work continues to influence classrooms, boardrooms, and community spaces across Nova Scotia and beyond.
How Can Augy Help?
Augy partners with organizations that are ready to move beyond surface-level statements and desire to change how people relate, lead, and work together.
Inclusive Culture Mindset Toolbox
This signature session gives teams a shared language and a set of practical tools for building welcoming, safe, and culturally aware environments. In a focused 60-minute introduction, Augy moves participants through a clear, step-by-step narrative about today’s more diverse and empowered workforce and what that means for leaders who want people to thrive. He introduces five mindset “tools” that help individuals and organizations shift toward more relational, human ways of working.
For organizations ready to go deeper, a two-day (10-hour) option adds individual and group activities, breakout discussions, thematic videos, and self-assessment. This extended format gives people space to sit with the concepts, practice new approaches together, and leave with a realistic plan for how they will show up differently.
Teacher Coaching
For P–12 educators, Augy offers one-on-one video coaching sessions that are honest, practical, and judgment-free. Drawing on his own background in classrooms and school leadership, he helps teachers work through classroom management challenges, curriculum and pedagogy questions, relationships with administrators, parent complexities, and the tension that can surface around student difference.
Each session is tailored to the teacher’s context and focused on solutions they can begin using immediately, without asking them to abandon their own instincts or values.
Keynote Speaking
As a keynote speaker, Augy is often invited in when teams are navigating change, reckoning with their history, or wrestling with questions of who they are and who they serve. His talks weave together story, research, analogy, and humour, helping audiences see themselves clearly without feeling attacked or shut down.
He speaks at conferences, professional development days, retreats, and special events, tailoring each engagement to the room and the moment. His most requested topics include Inclusive Education, African Nova Scotian Education and History, Relational Leadership, Change Management grounded in PROSCI ADKAR, and Marginalized Community Engagement.
Every talk is customized to the audience, but most of Augy’s work centres on the following themes:
Inclusive Education
African Nova Scotian Education and History
Relational Leadership
Change Management and ADKAR
Marginalized Community Engagement
Inclusive Culture Mindset tools
Basketball IQ Fundamentals
If you are unsure which topic best fits your event, you can chat with Augy about your goals and design something that meets the moment and the room.
Organizational Culture “Fixer” Consulting
Some situations require more than a one-time session. Augy partners with leadership teams who know something in their culture is not working, but are unsure how to name it or where to begin. He listens for the story beneath the issue, then helps clarify what is happening, why it matters, and what needs to shift.
Using principles of relational leadership and change management, including the PROSCI ADKAR model, he supports organizations in building awareness, fostering employee buy-in, practical knowledge, and the ability to sustain new ways of working. This may include discovery conversations, facilitated sessions, strategic input, and follow-up support focused on repair, accountability, and long-term trust.
Who Augy Has Worked With…
Over the years, Augy has partnered with organizations across government, law, health, education, sport, and the private sector. His sessions are sought out by teams who want more than a checkbox training. They bring him in when they need someone who can name what is really happening in their culture and help them move.
Through his Inclusive Culture Mindset “Tool Box” sessions, he has worked with leadership and staff teams at Davis Pier, BF&M, Pink Larkin, McInnis Cooper, Canada Revenue Agency, Iris Communications, Nature’s Way, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, Perennia, Nova Scotia Nurses Union, the Nova Scotia Department of Resources & Renewables, the Joint Regional Transportation Agency, Southwest Properties, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, The Shaw Group, Banook Boat Club, and MetOcean Telematics, helping them build shared language, confront discomfort, and develop practical mindset tools they can use day to day.
His extended two-day deep dives have supported the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, Halifax Independent School, Armbrae Academy, and Acadia Women’s Basketball across seasons, focusing on team culture, trust-building, and the ongoing work of inclusion within classrooms, staff rooms, and locker rooms.
As a keynote speaker, he has addressed audiences with Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS), the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC), Team Work Cooperative, Queen’s Football, and others, speaking on inclusive education, African Nova Scotian history and education, relational leadership, and change management in ways that are honest, accessible, and immediately usable.
“As a small independent school, we rely on trusted partners. Over the past several years, Augy has helped us look at every part of our school through an inclusion lens: strategic planning, policy, human resources, curriculum, and crisis response. On a personal level, I value his friendship, mentorship, and steady presence. When complex situations arise, knowing I can reach out to Augy changes how we are able to respond.”
“Augy is a talented and knowledgeable leader in this space. He worked with our team throughout the season to clarify what an intentionally inclusive culture should look like, sound like, and feel like. Using personal stories, humour, and radical candour, he created a vulnerable environment where our athletes and coaches felt accepted and heard. He helped us have the courageous conversations we needed, in a supportive way — and it showed in our performance.”
“My experience with Augy, both as a mentor and in the work he has done with our organization and clients, has been incredibly valuable. He has helped shape how I think about my role as a leader in a social impact organization with considerable privilege. Augy has a rare ability to speak from his lived experience in a way that feels both comfortable and appropriately uncomfortable — and that is the space where real change begins.”
Augy’s Approach…
Augy’s work is grounded in relational leadership. From the first email or call, he focuses on understanding the story behind the request: what is happening in the culture, where trust has been strained, where processes or relationships are breaking down, and where there is clear readiness to do better. He is not interested in performative or short-term solutions. His focus is on meaningful, measurable shifts in how people lead, communicate, and work together.
Across his work as a keynote speaker, facilitator, consultant, and coach, Augy holds two priorities at once: the strategic objectives of the organization and the lived realities of the people within it. His role is to bridge those priorities in a way that is honest, practical, and sustainable. He uses clear language, structured frameworks, and tangible mindset tools so complex issues feel manageable rather than abstract. He pays close attention to who is participating, who is not, and what that reveals about power, trust, and communication, and he calibrates his approach accordingly in each setting.
His mission is to surface and share mindset tools that have long existed within historically marginalized communities and translate them into practices leaders and teams can implement and sustain. Integrity, professionalism, discretion, and a high standard of client care guide how he scopes, designs, and delivers every engagement. At the core of his approach is the belief that when organizations slow down, tell the truth, and commit to empathizing others, culture change becomes a strategic advantage.
"Most problems and solutions lie within relationships." - Augy Jones
"Most problems and solutions lie within relationships." - Augy Jones
Contact Augy…
Email: bookings@augyjones.com
Phone: (902) 800-5571
