BUILT FOR UNCERTAINTY
Leading Teams That Move Forward When the Map Keeps Changing
When the future stops being predictable, most leaders reach for the only playbook they know: set the target, build the plan, and push the team toward it.
IN A WORLD THAT CHANGES FASTER
But in a world that changes faster than any plan can keep pace with, that playbook quietly becomes a liability.
Teams lose faith in goals that no longer match reality, leaders lose credibility every time they change course, and the whole organization waits for a certainty that simply isn’t coming.Workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende has spent nearly a decade studying what separates the leaders whose people run for the exits from the leaders whose people pull together and move forward. The difference isn’t sharper forecasting, it’s the ability to lead by direction rather than locking a team to a destination.
THE BEST LEADERS DON’T WAIT FOR THE MAP TO BE FINISHED
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
It comes down to three shifts: setting a direction the team can rally around, helping the team become the next version of itself instead of defending what worked last year, and making the small, deliberate one-degree moves that let a team course-correct without it ever looking like failure. In this high-energy, actionable keynote, leaders learn how to give their people a sense of direction when the destination is unknown, how to lead change without eroding trust, and how to build teams that are not just resilient through uncertainty but genuinely energized by it. Eric arms attendees with the same practical tools he uses with leaders at Amazon, Toyota, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Lockheed Martin — a bearing check for staying honest in motion, a way to price the cost of waiting, and a method for turning small experiments into a team-wide habit of progress. The best leaders don’t wait for the map to be finished. They teach their teams how to keep moving without one.
WHAT AUDIENCES COME AWAY WITH:
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LEAD BY
How to lead by direction when the destination keeps changing
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THREE SHIFTS
The three shifts that move a team from anxious to unwavering through change
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TRUST
How to change course without it looking like failure or eroding trust
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NEXT VERSION
A method for helping a team become the next version of itself
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ONE-DEGREE
How to turn one-degree shifts into a team-wide habit of progress
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CHANGE
The questions that tell a team — mid-journey — whether to hold the bearing or change it