Lead When it's Not Clear: Navigating Complexity in Uncertain Times

Lead When It’s Not Clear: A 3-Session Summer School for Complexity Thinkers & Doers

The best leaders don’t chase certainty. They create clarity.
Join a sharp, experiential deep-dive into how to think, sense, and lead when everything is in flux. 

🚩 Complexity Isn’t a Bug—It’s the Terrain

Most strategy fails because it pretends the world is stable.
Most facilitation falters because it tries to control chaos.
This Summer School is for those who’ve stopped pretending.

We don’t offer silver bullets. We offer better lenses.

🧠 What You’ll Experience

• 3 frameworks that rewire how you see complexity

• Participatory methods that support real-time sensemaking in groups of any size

• Tactics for leading without a map

• A community of peers who’ve outgrown tidy solutions

📚 The Sessions

Session 1: Critical Uncertainties - COMPLETE, July 8, 2025

Learn to lead when you can’t know all the answers.
Prioritize what’s truly uncertain - and design around that.
Use this as a rapid, adaptive radar - not a roadmap.

NEW REGISTRANTS: get access to resources and recording

Session 2: Panarchy - July 22, 2025

Understand systems that collapse and evolve.
Panarchy reveals why some changes ripple and others vanish.
Learn to spot leverage points - and when to push.

Session 3: Cynefin - Aug 5, 2025

Know what kind of problem you’re actually in.
Cynefin gives you clarity on whether to sense, respond, or act fast.
Lead differently based on domain - not dogma.

🎯 Who It’s For

• Leaders managing multi-stakeholder messiness

• Intrapreneurs working across silos and speed bumps

• Facilitators and Consultants who are ready to serve 'problem domains' (not just organizations)

💡 What You’ll Leave With

• A set of practices for navigating the unknown

• A strategic lens grounded in real-world complexity

• The ability to see what others miss

• Language and models to unlock stalled teams and processes

📆 The Details

• 2 MORE Live Sessions (2hr) to recalibrate your lens before autumn gets busy, every 2 weeks (July 22, Aug 5)

• 19:30pm CET | 1:30pm ET 

• Curated tools + frameworks

• NOW 100 euros for remaining 2 sessions (was 150 euros)

Your Hosts

Susan Basterfield is a catalyst and coach who believes that awareness and discernment is the key to everything. She accompanies leaders and organizations on their transformational journeys.

An open-hearted iconoclast, Stefan Morales loves to include and unleash everyone. Their work is driven by a foundational belief in the capacity of humans to co-develop in the face of complexity.

Together with our peers at Greaterthan Collective we work with leaders, companies, startups, cooperatives, networks and communities - helping them create or transition to new organisational forms, and support their teams as they grow the skills, mindsets and practices they need to thrive in them.