Keynote
1–2 hours
- Audience
- Executives, leaders, and teams.
- Format
- A keynote address, a moderated discussion, or an interactive Q&A.
- Delivery
- In-person or virtual.
For organizations
Leadership in uncertainty
Give your team the skills to turn uncertainty into growth and a competitive advantage.
Discover training
The single biggest predictor of executive success is how you deal with ambiguity.
Sam Yagan, co-founder of SparkNotes and OkCupid; former CEO, Match.com
The future will belong to companies whose senior executives remain calm.
McKinsey Quarterly
Reframe
Uncertainty causes natural discomfort and can limit your perspective.
Reframe tools help you embrace the unknown as the origin of possibility.
Prime
Uncertainty becomes manageable when you prepare yourself for it.
Prime tools encourage routines, self-knowledge and a portfolio of projects for satisfying action.
Do
Uncertainty creates fight, flight or freeze response.
Do tools promote fast learning and adaptation, dispelling ambiguity and building courage. Each step is a valuable discovery.
Sustain
Despite our efforts, things will still “go wrong.”
Sustain tools bring energy and resilience, acting as fuel on the journey from Uncertainty to Possibility.
What experience works best for you?
Pair any of these with the Uncertainty Ability Assessment before and after training to track measurable results.
Workshop
1–2 hours, or up to a full day
- Audience
- Executives, leaders, and teams.
- Format
- Presentation plus interactive group discussion and exercises, supplemented by learning materials. Access to a recording.
- Delivery
- In-person, virtual, or hybrid.
On-demand course
2–3 hours
- Audience
- Leaders, executives, entire team.
- Format
- Self-paced course, either for leadership in uncertainty or an uncertainty ability course. Optional live kickoff and/or conclusion workshop.
Ability assessment
Self-paced, ~15 minutes
- Audience
- Anyone at your organization.
- Insights
- The Uncertainty Ability assessment reveals strengths and weaknesses in individual uncertainty strategies and overall team results, with suggestions for how to improve.
- Delivery
- A link to distribute to your team.
Gave our leaders practical tools and a shared language for leading through uncertainty. It sparked valuable conversations and shifted mindsets around how we approach change and risk.
Training leaders
Nathan and Susannah, co-authors of The Upside of Uncertainty (Harvard Business Review Press).
Nathan R. Furr
Professor of Strategy and Innovation at INSEAD in Paris and a recognized expert in innovation and technology strategy. His bestselling books include The Innovator's Method, Leading Transformation, and Innovation Capital. He works with leading companies such as Google, Microsoft, Citi, ING, Philips, and Solvay. He is also the father of four children.
Susannah Harmon Furr
Entrepreneur, designer, art historian, and contrarian. Susannah is currently cultivating a biointensive garden as part of a larger Hope Accelerator project in Normandy, where she runs diverse retreats for individuals and teams. She is also the mother of four children.