Description:
Three leadership waypoints-Awareness, Alliance, and Action-for leaders navigating a world the old ways weren't built for.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"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
"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