Shaping Organizational Culture Through Shared Sensemaking

Adapting How You Adapt: Session 1

On Demand

Duration:1 hour

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Shared Sensemaking webinar

On Demand

Duration:1 hour

On Demand

Duration: 1 hour

About the Webinar

This is session 1 in our series, Adapting How You Adapt to Disruption. Be sure to explore the other sessions as well:

In a world of relentless disruption that requires leading in perpetual crisis, organizations can no longer rely solely on past strategies. Culture — not just strategy — is emerging as the true differentiator in shaping organizational resilience and adaptability.

This session explores why culture is foundational to organizational resilience and how leaders can actively shape it — not just passively react to it. We’ll examine actionable ways to cultivate shared culture at the enterprise level, creating environments where people feel psychologically safe, aligned, and empowered to act.

You’ll learn what sensemaking is, why it’s important, and how developing it among your leaders enhances clarity, connection, and coordinated action, especially when facing ambiguity. We’ll also explore the link between individual agency and collective reality — how leaders at all levels can influence the culture around them.

Finally, we’ll emphasize the need for a continuous learning mindset to fuel adaptability and future readiness across the system. Join us to discover how shaping culture through sensemaking can move your organization from reactive to resilient.

What You’ll Learn

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • Why organizational culture is foundational, especially during times of change and disruption
  • Actionable approaches for senior leaders shaping organizational culture at the enterprise level
  • The importance of a continuous learning mindset and high levels of adaptability and sensemaking skills
  • Insights on the nexus between individual agency and collective realities

Your Hosts

Karissa McKenna
Karissa McKenna, MA
Global Product Manager, Open Enrollment

Karissa is the product manager and a lead designer of our flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® and other global, core leadership programs. She designs and facilitates leadership development solutions with a focus on high-tech, biotech, and research organizations where collaboration and innovation across boundaries and expertise are critical to success.

Karissa is the product manager and a lead designer of our flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® and other global, core leadership programs. She designs and facilitates leadership development solutions with a focus on high-tech, biotech, and research organizations where collaboration and innovation across boundaries and expertise are critical to success.

Kathleen O'Neill
Kathleen O'Neill, EdD, MBA
Organizational Leadership Practitioner

Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Kathleen works with executive and senior teams and helps clients develop collective organizational leadership capabilities for leading change, enhancing team performance, and driving innovation and organizational resilience.

Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Kathleen works with executive and senior teams and helps clients develop collective organizational leadership capabilities for leading change, enhancing team performance, and driving innovation and organizational resilience.

Karissa McKenna
Karissa McKenna, MA
Global Product Manager, Open Enrollment

Karissa is the product manager and a lead designer of our flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® and other global, core leadership programs. She designs and facilitates leadership development solutions with a focus on high-tech, biotech, and research organizations where collaboration and innovation across boundaries and expertise are critical to success.

Kathleen O'Neill
Kathleen O'Neill, EdD, MBA
Organizational Leadership Practitioner

Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Kathleen works with executive and senior teams and helps clients develop collective organizational leadership capabilities for leading change, enhancing team performance, and driving innovation and organizational resilience.

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