The board meeting for everyone

How to run an all-hands that compounds trust, focus, and ambition

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Michael Morgenstern
November 04, 2025

Happy Tuesday Brex Community,

An all-hands should feel less like a pep rally and more like a shared act of sense-making. Start with the story. Explain what changed in the market, what opportunities emerged or disappeared, and why the company’s mission remains essential within that evolving landscape. Then move through the facts with the precision of an earnings call. Present what was built, what results it produced, and what was learned. Speak to the team as informed professionals. Address challenges openly, outline trade-offs, and define the key priorities that will guide the next phase. The objective is clarity and coherence, not cheerleading. When the company understands the logic behind its own decisions, morale will naturally follow.

Culture transforms understanding into momentum. Treat the all-hands as a deliberate ritual, an hour where everyone connects with the organization’s purpose. Welcome new team members as participants in a story that is already in motion. Celebrate not only achievements but the quality of decision-making, experimentation, and execution. Include customer perspectives or frontline experiences to make strategy tangible. Conclude each meeting with a collective action, a single step that moves the organization forward until the next gathering. Over time, this cadence becomes a quiet promise: this is who we are, this is how we work, and this is how we advance together.

Growing together, Michael Morgenstern

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