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Lead Like a Futurist - Navigating From Purpose

New

7 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

The alumni-only September cohort welcomes graduates of Fluency 1: Reinvention. While the October cohort is open to all!

Lead Like a Futurist - Navigating From Purpose

New

7 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

The alumni-only September cohort welcomes graduates of Fluency 1: Reinvention. While the October cohort is open to all!

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

Transform Chaos into Clarity.

Discover your purpose: Navigate uncertainty with resilience, unlock your potential, and lead with authentic clarity and confidence.

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, effective leadership demands more than just strategic acumen and decision-making. It requires a deep, authentic sense of purpose. Our course, "Navigating From Purpose," is designed to guide leaders on a transformative journey to uncover their true calling and harness it to navigate uncertainty with the deep focus and confidence that purpose offers.

"Navigating From Purpose" is the second of six fluencies covered in the Lead Like a Futurist curriculum, which spans three essential domains of leadership:

Leading Self: Reinvention and Purpose.

Leading Strategy: Foresight and Innovation.

Leading Culture: Belonging and Wisdom.

Explore the full program on leadlikeafuturist.com

We have you in mind:

You're an established leader positioning yourself for future executive roles.

You're a leader seeking frameworks and practices to build a culture of purpose with your teams.

You're in transition, or can feel one coming on. You feel restless and hopeful about what's next.

You're an established leader positioning yourself for future executive roles.

You're a leader seeking frameworks and practices to build a culture of purpose with your teams.

You're in transition, or can feel one coming on. You feel restless and hopeful about what's next.

In a world of constant change, your purpose is your North Star. This transformative course empowers you to:

Navigate the Storm

Develop unshakeable resilience in the face of uncertainty
Turn challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation

Ignite Your Potential

Unlock hidden strengths and talents you never knew you had
Amplify your impact in both personal and professional spheres

Lead with Authentic Power

Cultivate a magnetic presence that inspires and influences others
Make decisions with unwavering-yet-humble confidence, even in complex situations

Forge Your Unique Path

Discover the profound clarity that comes from aligning with your true purpose
Create a life and career that resonates deeply with who you are

This course includes

15 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

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Week 1
Oct 23—Oct 27
Events
Oct
23
LIVE SESSION Week 1 | Charting Your Purpose
LIVE SESSION Week 1 | Charting Your Purpose
Wed, Oct 23, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC
Oct
25
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Fri, Oct 25, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC
Oct
25
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Fri, Oct 25, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM UTC
Week 2
Oct 28—Nov 3
Events
Oct
30
LIVE SESSION Week 2 | Unearthing Your Unique SuperPowers
LIVE SESSION Week 2 | Unearthing Your Unique SuperPowers
Wed, Oct 30, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC
Nov
1
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Fri, Nov 1, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC
Nov
1
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Fri, Nov 1, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM UTC
Week 3
Nov 4—Nov 10
Events
Nov
6
LIVE SESSION Week 3 | Challenges That Have Made You Wise
LIVE SESSION Week 3 | Challenges That Have Made You Wise
Wed, Nov 6, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
Nov
8
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Fri, Nov 8, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM UTC
Nov
8
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Fri, Nov 8, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC
Week 4
Nov 11—Nov 17
Nothing scheduled for this week.
Week 5
Nov 18—Nov 24
Events
Nov
20
LIVE SESSION Week 4 | Crafting Your Purpose Statement
LIVE SESSION Week 4 | Crafting Your Purpose Statement
Wed, Nov 20, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
Nov
22
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Fri, Nov 22, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM UTC
Nov
22
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Fri, Nov 22, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC
Modules
VACATION WEEK
VACATION WEEK
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Week 6
Nov 25—Dec 1
Nothing scheduled for this week.
Week 7
Dec 2—Dec 4
Events
Dec
4
LIVE SESSION Week 5 | Action Plans for Navigating From Purpose in Life and Leadership
LIVE SESSION Week 5 | Action Plans for Navigating From Purpose in Life and Leadership
Wed, Dec 4, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
Post-Course
Events
Dec
6
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Cecily (Optional)
Fri, Dec 6, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM UTC
Dec
6
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Join the Workroom with Chris (Optional)
Fri, Dec 6, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

Purpose works better together.

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and at-home practices to make the learning stick.

Interactive and applied to you

You’ll be interacting with your peers in breakout rooms and in exercises that apply to your life now.

Weekly workroom hours for coaching

In 2 sessions offered each week, you'll get personal guidance from Cecily and/or Chris, along with your peers.

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 TraffickingAuthor name

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 usuable 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

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.

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