The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
What’s going on?
March 30 to April 6, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
We are currently on spring break holiday. Right before the break we celebrated marking our 2 year anniversary as a membership club. When we return from break our big focus will be on planning for our annual Sensemakers Salon. It’s a half-day, free, remote event we open to the public to get a sense of what our members are curious about and working on.
Last week Making Sense of Your Values in Tech explored real workplace conflicts between personal ethics and professional demands. From accommodating a teammate's schedule to navigating the gap between caring about people and getting the job done. Making Sense of The Future used signals, storytelling, and "fictional intelligence" as tools for imagining and preparing for an uncertain future. Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion dove deep into burnout and its many forms, how notoriously hard it is to recognize in the moment, and what recovery actually looks and feels like. Seekers Who Make Sense tackled the meaning of higher intelligence, exploring spiritual traditions from Islam to Kabbalah to the modern mystery school and asking what it means to find your own path to the divine. And Making Sense of Language examined what productive conversation looks like when people disagree about language choices: touching on evolving slang, pronouns, place names, and the ever-thorny question of timing a correction.
Themes from last week:
- You have to live it to name it.
- The individual and the collective are always in tension.
- Language, naming, and the power to recognize.
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.