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 AI Field Notes
Hosted by Dan Cooney & Jessica Anderson
A collaborative space for sensemakers to share insights, experiments, and questions related to their experiences with AI, fostering skill growth and documentation of evolving patterns in the field.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Change
Hosted by Skipper Chong Warson & Laura Chance
A curious group exploring the complexities of change and develops frameworks for effectively creating, embracing, or managing it across various scales and domains.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Ethics
Hosted by Brenda Ray & Vladimira Girginova
A thoughtful group focused on exploring the ethical implications of sensemaking work and addressing challenging questions without fear of the unknown.
3 PM ET Collaborative Sensemaking
Hosted by Matt Arnold
A monthly session for Premium members to collaboratively share and refine their work in a supportive environment.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Other Humans
Hosted by Erin Rodat-Savla & Karen Brothers
A brave group focused on understanding and improving teamwork dynamics, navigating conflicts, and fostering productive relationships without burnout.
2 PM ET Complexity & Chaos
Hosted by Matt Arnold
A strategic group exploring navigating complexity and sensemaking in both structured and chaotic environments.
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.