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 The Beginner's Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
2 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Uday Gajendar
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we'll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Design Jam
Hosted by Holly Schroeder & Abby Covert
A hands-on design jam for members and leaders to collaboratively explore and shape the future of the Sensemakers Club through a working session focused on iteration and shared ownership.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Facilitation
Hosted by Shelby Bower & Alan Dooley
A vibrant group exploring the various perspectives and contexts of effective facilitation.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Money
Hosted by Tarryn Lambert & Sarah Rice
An open, nuanced discussion aimed at demystifying money, fostering connections, and promoting financial empowerment through shared experiences and insights.
What’s going on?
Week of April 13, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week we brought in 12 new members during our monthly membership drive. Mindfulness & Modeling (Tuesday, April 7) was a hands-on practice session exploring "shitty mapping" the art of turning ideas and stories into rough visual diagrams as both a note-taking and sense-making tool. Knowledge Management & Governance Support (Wednesday, April 8) pivoted toward accountability, with members sharing personal KPIs and wrestling with how to measure the often-squishy value of knowledge work. Career Transitions (Thursday, April 9) opened up a rich group reflection on how none of us end up where we planned, and what threads of skill and identity persist across wildly different professional paths. And Incentives Shape Architecture (Friday, April 10) tackled why good information architecture so often goes unrecognized, unprotected, and under-resourced and what it would take to actually align teams around it.
This week we are headed to IA Conference in Philadelphia with a sensemaking posse! We are hosting a lunch for prospective members on Saturday. If you’ll be on site make sure to find our team and say hi!
Themes from last week:
- Rooting down before reaching up
- The emotional labor of doing work that others don't see or understand.
- Making the invisible visible — and knowing when to hide it.
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.