The world doesn’t look like it did 5, 10, 15 years ago.
We’re living through uncharted times.
We need a new kind of leadership.
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Uncharted Leadership:
Navigating Disruption Without a Map
We’re living amid a rupture of chaotic change, knocked off course of how we human in this era.
We’ve lost our bearings at work, from the C-Suite to the factory floor.
We face impossible complexities in our home life, from parenting to elder care to navigating health uncertainty.
We lack the communities and resources that have traditionally brought us stability and safety.
In Uncharted Leadership, we look across industries, countries, scientific studies, homes, cultures, and trends to identify what it takes for us to thrive. After decades of global corporate experience working with high-performing leaders—and combing through the research on what works—we identified three waypoints to guide us through this journey:
Awareness: cultivating the knowledge of ourselves and our surroundings to answer the question, “who and where am I?”
Alliance: building relationships within and across boundaries that foster abundance and mutual growth.
Action: taking ownership of consistent, incremental changes that lead to radical progress.
Forces in today’s world complicate our efforts to orient towards meaning. We need new tools to overcome these barriers and to create the meaningful results we want.
What People Are Saying
“The hardest part of leading right now isn't making the wrong call—it's making any call when the ground under us keeps shifting. Katie writes about that specific paralysis with clarity, and offers a way through it that doesn't require pretending you know more than you do.”
—Sherry Lachman, AugmentED Executive Director and former White House senior policy official in the Obama and Biden administrations
“Most leadership books avoid what's really hard about change—the grief, the loss, the rupture—and go straight to what's next. Katie Sheketoff doesn't. She names what leaders are actually carrying before offering a path forward. Her three waypoints—Awareness, Alliance, Action—say it all. Awareness slows us down long enough to see clearly. Alliance reminds us that leadership is a team sport. And Action returns us to the dance floor, where the real work happens. Uncharted Leadership makes adaptive complexity feel navigable without pretending it's easy. This is the book this moment needs.”
—Michael Koehler, CEO of KONU, faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Uncharted Leadership is personal, practical, and powerful. The book’s great storytelling and useful tips indeed show how to navigate disruption without a map. Read it. More importantly, live it.”
—Scott D. Anthony, Clinical Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of Epic Disruptions
“In Uncharted Leadership, Katie succeeds in capturing the qualities investors look for every day in founders. By framing leadership through the lens of Awareness, Alliance, and Action, the book delivers a roadmap for how to navigate business's and life's thorniest challenges. Every day I speak to startup founders looking to conquer the hardest route to career success there is: creating a multi-billion dollar venture-scale business on venture-scale timelines. Venture capitalists agree that the single most important factor in making that possible is the ability of the founder to lead. Uncharted Leadership identifies those core abilities and allows people like me to focus on the right set of attributes for success.”
—David Velasquez, Venture Partner, Actions Capital and Virta Ventures
"In Uncharted Leadership, author Katie Sheketoff shares real perspectives on leading through uncertainty, with practical guidance and exercises to implement the concepts and frameworks she shares. The book is timely, as we're all grappling with massive change in our world and in how we lead.”
—Jennie Blumenthal, bestselling author and CEO of Corporate Rehab Leadership
"Katie isn't afraid to use her own hardest moments—chemo, COVID, and career change—to show what leadership actually looks like when there's no map to follow. This book is the most honest and practical guide I've found for anyone who has to keep moving when everything is uncertain."
—Marina Nitze, author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy
"The best scouts don’t just evaluate talent—they recognize underutilized potential that others overlook. Katie Sheketoff has done exactly that with Uncharted Leadership. In a crowded field of leadership advice, she delivers something rare: a powerful and practical framework that helps leaders leverage their strengths, uncover blind spots, and thrive in fast-changing environments. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, she equips leaders with the mindset and strategic clarity needed to navigate uncertainty, unlock potential, and turn insight into action."
—Oz Ocampo, Three-time World Series Champion and former Assistant GM, Houston Astros and Miami Marlins