Abby Covert

Author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture

Cohort 1

Summer 2026 Cohort

Alfi Oloo

Peership in Sensemaking

Information Architect & Author

If you know your people skills are in the way, this workshop is for you 🙏

Have you ever watched someone skilled at knowing what to say, when to speak, or how to frame a decision so others could engage? If so, you’ve already seen effective sensemaking in action.Sensemaking is the deeply personal process we use to understand complex, messy, and/or ambiguous situations so we can make better decisions and take more thoughtful action.This often looks like intuition or common sense. In reality, it is more about pattern recognition, discernment, and timing, developed in context to your lived experience.This workshop is about the timeless part of sensemaking. Which isn't the tools, templates or technologies. The timeless part of sensemaking is the people part. Have you ever felt like ...<ul><li>Other people are always in the way of your good work</li><li>Your team or stakeholders is where awesome plans go to die</li><li>Your desk looks like a good place to bang your head in frustration after your last meeting</li></ul>Don't bang your head on that desk, sensemaker. This workshop can help you see how this is all a game and you are just not playing to your highest ability yet.In this workshop we are going to breakdown how other people impact our work, and what we can and CANNOT do about it 🔮

Below are three outcomes you can expect from using this time to improve your sensemaking skills with Abby as your guide. 

Improve how you navigate other people

Practice discernment

Play with peers

Sensemakers looking to feel less frustrated and alone in their practice.

Anyone for whom the "people part" is in the way of the "making sense" part.

Systems thinkers who struggle to connect with stakeholders.

Abby Covert helps you make the unclear, clear.

Abby Covert

Workshops

Timeless Sensemaking for Modern Sensemakers

Lightning Lessons

Peership in Sensemaking