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
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Content + Design
Hosted by Gladys Diandoki & Janine Griffin
This intersectional group explores the intricate relationship between content and design, emphasizing their essential collaboration in creating effective outputs.
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf & Suzan Quick
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
1 PM ET PUBLIC Ask Me Anything
Hosted by Abby Covert
A public session to ask Abby Covert anything about sensemaking, information architecture, and more.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Mike Creech & Chloe Westman
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET IA Office Hours
Hosted by Abby Covert
A steady group focused on a monthly theme in information architecture.
What’s going on?
Week of June 1, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week's four sessions spanned simulation theory, documentation practice, scriptural reflection, and inclusive language. Making Sense of The Future (May 26) used The Matrix as a lens to examine algorithmic control and whether we're already living inside a manufactured reality. Sensemaking Lab (May 26) was a working session on knowledge management, documentation lifecycles, and AI's encroachment on thought-worker labor. Seekers Who Make Sense (May 28) used a Matthew 7 parable about building on rock vs. sand to explore parenting, grace, and the balance between structure and freedom. Making Sense of Language (May 29) asked where inclusive language feels natural vs. exhausting across life's contexts, and whether corporate DEI constitutes real inclusion or theater.
Themes from last week:
- Agency, resistance, and the cost of opting out
- Foundations, constraints, and the conditions for growth
- The performance of inclusion vs. the thing itself