Finding Your Way Through a Rapidly Changing Landscape: How to respond, adapt and navigate without getting left behind

Finding Your Way Through a Rapidly Changing Landscape is part of Ian McDermott’s monthly Springboard series: 50 minutes of clear thinking, drawn from 35+ years of working with people navigating change. Not a sales pitch. Not a teaser. Practical insight you can use the same day.

Navigate from a place of choice, not just reaction.

What we'll explore

• How to orient yourself - in your life and in the changing landscape, and how to strengthen new instincts that serve you better than the old ones
• The signals you send yourself - how to recognise and tell apart the different signals that show up during anxiety and uncertainty, and what to do with each
• Why 'what do I want?' matters so much - one of the most important questions in a changing landscape, and how to begin finding a real answer
• The idea of a 'direction of travel' - how having one gives you agency, even when the destination isn't certain
• Responding to what's genuinely hard - how to acknowledge it without getting stuck in it
• Moving from reactive to responsive - practical approaches, in your work, your leadership and your life
• Navigating from choice, not just reaction - what that actually means, and how it feels

The anxiety of a rapidly changing world is real. Wondering what the future holds, where you’ll fit and how you’ll be useful takes up more energy than we often admit.

It’s easy to stay so busy and so anxious that we never actually learn to navigate. This session is about the alternative: orienting yourself, finding your direction of travel, and responding from a place of choice rather than reaction.