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
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
All Day No Session — Labor Day
The club is closed today in observance of Labor Day. Enjoy the holiday — we’ll see you back tomorrow!
2 PM ET Sensemaking Through Play
Hosted by Rebecca Hathaway
Explore how games and play help us learn, collaborate, see past our assumptions, and find the energy to tackle messy problems together.
3 PM ET Productive But Stuck
Hosted by Matt Arnold
A live workshop using the Collaborative Operating System to diagnose which outcome your team is over-optimizing and name the tradeoff that's creating drift.
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 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 September 8, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week the Sensemakers Club held five discussions: Making Sense of Content + Design opened the week wrestling with what to call ourselves when our actual work spans research, IA, content strategy, and system design far beyond "content." Mindfulness & Modeling used a mapping exercise — draw a place you love, then redraw it without the part you're most attached to — to explore what happens when we're forced to let go. Knowledge Management & Governance Support dug into what makes people adopt or abandon personal knowledge systems, and how AI is quietly removing the friction that used to kill them. Career Transitions asked where meaning-making helps or hurts the stories we tell ourselves during a career shift. Finding Allies & Building Coalitions closed the week with a "myth or magic" game testing which relationship-building rituals actually work, followed by real talk on what makes coalitions succeed or collapse.
Themes from last week:
- Letting go is disorienting even when it's the right call.
- Real trust, not process, is what actually moves things.
- What we call ourselves keeps failing to describe what we actually do.
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
Take our FREE 24-question assessment to reveal the gaps in your unique sensemaker shape.
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