Uncharted Leadership: Navigating Disruption Without a Map - Softcover

Sheketoff, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1971718394 ISBN 13: 9781971718392

Publisher: Ripples Media llc, 2026

Synopsis

The leadership frameworks that served us for decades were written for a world that no longer exists.

Fixed career paths. Stable institutions. Problems you could actually solve. That world of certainty is gone, and the frameworks built for it are failing people at every level:

• At work, from the C-suite to the front line, nobody seems to know what success looks like anymore
• At home, competing demands—parenting, elder care, health uncertainty—have no instruction manual
• In our communities, the shared anchors of meaning and belonging have frayed

Uncharted Leadership starts from a different premise: that disruption isn't a phase we're passing through. It's the permanent condition we're leading in. And that calls for a different kind of leader: one who can navigate without a map.

Drawing on over 20 years of global leadership development work, including designing award-winning programs that reached 30,000 leaders at Marriott International, and research across psychology, organizational science, and human development, Katie Sheketoff distilled what actually works. Three essential waypoints that have guided effective leaders across industries, cultures, and crises:

• Awareness – cultivating knowledge of yourself and your surroundings to answer the question: who and where am I?
• Alliance – building relationships across boundaries that foster trust, abundance, and mutual growth
• Action – taking ownership of consistent, incremental changes that add up to radical progress, even when the destination isn't fully visible

This isn't just another leadership framework. Sheketoff gets into what actually gets in the way, with concrete practices, honest examinations of the barriers, and real examples drawn from organizations, families, cultures, and communities navigating the same terrain.

Uncharted Leadership is built for how leadership actually works today—not how it used to be.

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About the Author

Katie Sheketoff is a strategic leader, executive coach, and the founder of Elevate Labs. She is the author of Uncharted Leadership: Navigating Disruption Without a Map, a new framework for leaders navigating an uncharted world. With over 20 years of experience in organizational transformation and talent development, she has designed award-winning programs that reached 30,000 leaders across six continents and advised C-suite executives through some of the most disruptive periods in recent history, including a global pandemic, rapid technological change, and sweeping organizational restructuring. She lives outside Washington, DC with her family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ripples Media llc
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1971718394
• ISBN 13: 9781971718392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228