Unlocking Growth with Belonging

New

5 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Belonging creates order from chaos—at every level, from individual to organization to society. Our growth and evolution depend on it.

Unlocking Growth with Belonging

New

5 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Belonging creates order from chaos—at every level, from individual to organization to society. Our growth and evolution depend on it.

Hosted by

Cecily Sommers and Chris Everett

A renowned futurist and a gifted experience-designer are your guides.

Cecily Sommers and Chris Everett

A renowned futurist and a gifted experience-designer are your guides.

BELOVED CLIENTS

Course overview

The Future is Where We Belong

(Sep 10-Oct 10 2025)

The core function of leadership is to inspire cooperation through shared purpose and goals. Belonging is the key to enabling cooperation at scale—an essential competitive advantage for any group.

In this course, you’ll discover that belonging isn’t just a feeling; it has a structure. When intentionally cultivated and sustained, it leads to remarkable outcomes—both in the “soft” dimensions of trust and honesty at work and in measurable improvements in efficiency, productivity, and creativity. We belong not only to each other but also to the future we build together.

This is the fifth of six fluencies in the Lead Like a Futurist program:

Leading Self: Reinvention and Purpose (TBD – join the waitlist at leadlikeafuturist.com)

Leading Strategy: Foresight and Innovation (Spring 2025)

Leading Culture: Belonging and Wisdom (Fall 2025)

Learn more at leadlikeafuturist.com.

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DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!

Register for two or more fluencies within a 24-hour period and save big. Indicate your interest on the application to receive your discount code:

- Two Fluencies: $100 off each course

- Three Fluencies: $125 off each course

- Four Fluencies: $150 off each course

That's 4 for the price of 3!

BONUS:

Registering for two or more fluencies grants you access to continued Workroom coaching sessions between courses. This high-value opportunity is exclusively available to those who make this commitment.

CERTIFICATION:

Students who complete the full Lead Like a Futurist six-fluency leadership program will be awarded a certificate that verifies their achievement and training. This certificate is suitable for framing, adding to your resume, and showcasing on your LinkedIn profile to highlight your leadership development.

Who is this course for

You care deeply about the people in your work world and want to help them thrive.

You’re driven to address low trust and engagement in your environment.

You’re committed to fostering connection, even amid the challenges of hybrid work, reorgs, and constant change.

You care deeply about the people in your work world and want to help them thrive.

You’re driven to address low trust and engagement in your environment.

You’re committed to fostering connection, even amid the challenges of hybrid work, reorgs, and constant change.

What you’ll get out of this course

Discover the Experience of One

Feel the profound shift that comes from recognizing that we already—and always—belong to this world, this time, and this life on a grand scale.
Embody this awareness as you cultivate a deep sense of belonging within yourself, becoming a source of connection that radiates to other

Harness the Power of Mutuality

Learn to recognize and reflect signals of safety, vulnerability, trust, and joy in those around you.
Celebrate the ease of cooperation supported by mutual respect and appropriate boundaries.

Use Belonging Cues to Ignite Focus and Enthusiasm

Strengthen your voice—and guide group direction—with clear, direct communication.
Honor individual contributions while fostering collective success.

Belonging Doesn’t Depend on Extroverts

Use the structure of the Gates of Belonging to guide inclusive practices in all activities.
Trust that every person’s unique style and energy has a place—including your own.

This course includes

5 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

In-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 10—Sep 14

Sep

MODULE 1 | Onening

Wed 9/102:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Sep 15—Sep 21

Sep

MODULE 2 | Mutuality

Wed 9/172:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 3

Sep 22—Sep 28

Sep

MODULE 3 | The Roots of Trust

Wed 9/242:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 4

Sep 29—Oct 5

Oct

MODULE 4 | The Gates of Belonging

Wed 10/12:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 5

Oct 6—Oct 8

Oct

MODULE 5 | Belonging to Self, Community, the World

Wed 10/82:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Get Fluent: Six Leadership Fluencies help you move with ease in uneasy times

Leading Self

Master the principles and practices of personal reinvention and purpose, empowering you to guide similar processes within your organization.

Leading Strategy

Use the power of foresight to anticipate opportunities, shape your vision, drive innovation for future relevance, and inspire excitement for change.

Leading Culture

Aligned with your future vision, lead with humility, the courage to do what’s right, and a deep commitment to fostering belonging and embodying wisdom in every decision.

Meet your instructors

Cecily Sommers

One of the World's Top 50 Female Futurists

With a reputation as "The Practical Futurist," Cecily helps leaders anticipate and steward transformational change. Kicking the futurist-as-guru paradigm to the curb, Cecily embeds foresight in leadership development programs, training them to be their own best futurists. It is how organizations build the culture they need for the future they want. Cecily is the author of Think Like a Futurist, a 2x-TEDx speaker, and a certified Transformational Coach.

Chris Everett

Experience Designer, Facilitator, Coach

Chris creates and guides experiences for individuals and organizations in threshold moments of change. He has an uncanny ability to help top leaders and broader teams see their world and work through a new lens of possibility. It is how organizations see real potential and a path forward. With over three decades in crafting brand expression and strategy, Chris is a master at using beauty as a powerful medium for transformation.

This course is built for busy professionals

4-6 hours per week

If your schedule blows up, we've got you
Asynchronous learning is in the design
- Prework Videos and Readings: Access anytime!
- Recorded Live Sessions: Can’t make it live? Catch up with session recordings.
- Workroom Time on Fridays: A time to dive deeper into the material.
- 1:1 Support Calls: Personalized guidance to keep you aligned and moving forward.
A 5-part series
With a gang of peers
There are five 90-min live sessions that occur on Wednesdays at 9am CST. This time is suited to a variety of timezones, making it friendly to students across the Americas and Europe.
These are the people you've been waiting to meet: thoughtful and passionate—just like you!
Prework and Homework
Up to 2 hours per week
- The Prework will generally be 30 minutes of time or less.
- Expect Homework to take 30-60 minutes each week.
Additionally, we offer two Workrooms (Optional) for group coaching and project work on Fridays, 9am and 3pm
The Workroom Continues
Bonus offering!
Let the lessons take root with real-life coaching between course, where you'll tackle pressures, politics, and decisions in a supportive community.
Available for those registered in 2+ fluencies in 2025.

What people are saying

As a privileged alum of many leadership programs, it was refreshing to be part of a special cohort of learners poised for change. What a gift to be able to learn with and from my cohort mates under the kind and straightforward care of both Cecily and Chris. Grateful for the introspective time and opportunity to practice with new language.

A.J.

Research Director and Co-Founder Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking

This course was an exceptional learning experience. The exercises were thoughtfully designed to build upon each other. The practical tools and exercises were particularly valuable. It was a perfect blend of supportive community, well-structured content, practical application, and expert instruction, making it a transformative learning experience.

April

VP - Creative ILLUME

Cecily and Chris understand and deeply value transformation. They bring their many gifts to bear on multiple levels. The result is a wonderfully safe container. Great content, great breakouts, great fellow participants. This experience is powerful in that it meets each of us right where we are at.

Dan

Facilitator and Coach - COR

I loved how this course has both given me amazing insights and helped me to integrate it. A wealth of usable knowledge to deal with struggles most leaders are confronted with. Both Cecily and Chris clearly poured their hearts into crafting this training. If you’re a leader and you feel you want to grow, make sure you get a spot.

Reian

Adventurer - The Adventurer's Way

Grateful for the space created to learn and apply "leading like a futurist" building blocks that helped me get unstuck and grow in new ways. Things I appreciated about the course: practicality of tools / frameworks, intentionality of exercises, and live working sessions with engaging and vulnerable facilitators / coaches.

Joelle

Experience Manager - Edward Jones

Cecily and Chris are two of the most inspiring, thoughtful and aware humans that I have come across. Their dedication to helping others be more engaged and in tune with our personal rhythms and cycles of change. I particularly appreciated having a set of tools to help me navigate these cycles, both personally and with others.

Ivanka

SVP Sustainability - bp

This course provided me with a sense of returning "home" to what matters most. The level of intention and wisdom woven into each session provided a space in which I always walked away with a new "aha" insight. They became the tools that revealed a new level of understanding of myself and my place in the world.

Emily

Director of Development & Partnerships - Metropolitan State University of Denver

As a leader, I want to do a "good job" for the benefit of others. But, this session turned the focus inward. I learned a set of tools and helped me master an understanding of myself. What a way to learn to lead others! Cecily and Chris are artful facilitators, wise leaders, and inspired humans. What a gift to the world!

Anna

CEO, Global Design Firm

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