“We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Andre Gide 

 THE SITUATION

We are in a time of profound disruption and accelerating change. Exponential technologies, COVID-19, distributed teams… the list goes on. It’s no wonder we feel overwhelmed.  

As leaders, we see the need for our companies to be more agile and customer-centric, less hierarchical and more networked, embrace discontinuity, and go beyond the incremental to the exponential.

But we don’t have a model of how to do that; our existing leadership mental models were developed in an industrial age when things were stable and predictable. The tools we learned in business school and the best practices we share sometimes feel outdated and obsolete.

We confront seemingly intractable questions in this dynamic environment.

• How to transform fast enough to meet the changing needs of the market?

• How to sustain our own energy?

• How to keep our teams engaged?

• How to either keep up with the demand or generate new demand?

• How to manage the convergence of our personal and professional lives?

• How to unlearn old patterns and transform ourselves as leaders?

We are all searching for the “New Normal.”
But what does that mean and how do we get there?

THE EXPEDITION

The purpose of this expedition is to help senior leaders across industries and functions shift their thinking from MANAGERS to MULTIPLIERS. Leading in this dynamic age requires a rethinking of the traditional models of leadership.

Specifically, we will discuss:

• Shifting from managing people and processes to leading with purpose and principles

• Leading in a networked rather than hierarchical organization

• Creating autonomy AND alignment at any scale

• Keeping people energized and engaged through transformation

• Navigating the exponential growth journey without burnout

• Advancing a shared purpose, refining a shared identity, and creating shared value with distributed teams

During this expedition you will be asked to apply new mental concepts and tools to the business imperatives at hand. We strongly encourage you to participate in this expedition with a team as it will make the application even more meaningful.

THE DETAILS

The Expedition is designed to foster exploration and application.

• Five Expedition sessions will be led by Carey Albertine from 11:30-1pm ET on the following Tuesdays: 9/28, 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/16.

• Optional “office hours” for Q&A with Mark Bonchek will be held from 12p-1p ET on the following Tuesdays: 10/5, 10/19, and 11/2)

• Access to all recordings and materials used in the Expedition

The fee per participant is $2250 with a discount available for teams. Use the code TEAM250 when you register to receive a $250 discount if you plan to participate as a team.

Carey Albertine

Carey is the Chief Experience Officer at Shift Thinking. In her role, Carey designs and delivers experiences that create the conditions for transformative change and exponential growth.

Carey is a seasoned speaker and facilitator. In 2018, she gave a Ted Talk on the power of storytelling at TedX UVA.  Carey teaches leadership to graduate students at the University of Colorado. In the past, she facilitated a leadership development program for high-potential women leaders from Fortune 50 companies with the organization Women Unlimited. Carey has published over fifteen books in her capacity as Creative Director of In This Together Media.

In previous lives, Carey was an executive recruiter, manager of a multi-million dollar P&L for an educational company, and a stand-up comedian. She started her career at NBC as a page for Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Carey holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. 

Mark Bonchek

Mark is the founder and Chief Epiphany Officer at Shift Thinking. Mark’s role is to design the mental models that individuals and organizations can use to create breakthrough results.

Mark has been on the vanguard of the digital revolution since receiving Harvard's first PhD on the topic of social media in 1997. Throughout his career as an executive, entrepreneur, and advisor, Mark has been a catalyst for unlearning, a champion for community, and a catalyst for networked organization. His mission is to create epiphanies at scale.

Mark has published over 50 articles with Harvard Business Review and has served on the faculty of Singularity University.

Past positions include Research Director at the Strategos Institute, COO of TomorrowLab@McKinsey, SVP of Communities and Networks at Sears Holdings, and founder and CEO of Truman Company. He holds an AB in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Political Economy from Harvard University.