The territory has changed. Has your map?
The challenges facing leaders today rarely come with a clear playbook.
The problem keeps shifting. Priorities compete. Different stakeholders see different realities. What worked before no longer works in quite the same way.
So leaders do what capable people often do under pressure: try harder,
move faster, gather more information, add another strategy.
But sometimes the problem isn't a lack of effort, expertise or information.
It's that the map you're using to make sense of the situation no longer matches the territory you're trying to navigate.
That's The Map Gap.
And closing it is one of the central challenges of adaptive leadership.
Over two highly interactive days, you'll learn to recognise the maps shaping your leadership, expand your capacity to see beyond them, and navigate complexity with greater awareness, attention, accountability and agility.
Your success about developing the capacity to keep updating your understanding and response capacity as the territory changes.
Because in complex environments, the ability to redraw the map may matter more than the confidence to follow one.
(Strictly limited cohort to facilitate high-depth peer coaching)
Dates
3-4 Nov, 2026
Venue
Karstens Melbourne
Address
123 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Format
In-person, 2 full days
Investment
$1,850 AUD
Discounts available for multiple participants
Includes
Your own copy of The Map Gap
Why adaptive challenges require a different kind of leadership
Some problems can be solved with expertise:
You identify the issue. Apply what you know. Implement the solution.
But adaptive challenges are different:
They involve competing perspectives, entrenched assumptions, uncertainty, loss, identity and change.
The difficulty isn't simply working out what to do. It's learning to see what's really happening.
And that's where leadership gets complicated.
None of us sees the territory directly. We filter what we notice. We interpret what it means. We draw conclusions. We form positions. And before we know it, we're responding not simply to reality but to our map of reality.
The Map Gap emerges when:
yesterday's assumptions shape today's decisions
leaders mistake their interpretation for the whole picture
teams agree on the problem but disagree about what it means
familiar solutions are repeatedly applied to unfamiliar challenges
pressure narrows perspective just when greater perspective is needed
different parts of the organisation are navigating from fundamentally different maps
Adaptive leadership begins with recognising the difference between the territory and the map.
What you’ll develop
When leaders develop greater awareness of the maps shaping their thinking, learn to direct their attention more deliberately, and take responsibility for how they interpret and respond to the territory around them, they become better able to adapt.
Awareness. Attention. Accountability. The foundations of adaptive leadership.
01
Awareness
See the map you're currently navigating from.
Recognise the assumptions, interpretations, patterns and automatic responses shaping how you lead — particularly when the pressure is on.
Learn to step back from the immediate situation and see more of the territory.
Develop the ability to notice the difference between what happened and the meaning you've made of it.
02
Attention
Direct your attention where it matters most.
Complexity creates noise.
Develop greater awareness of where your attention goes, what captures it and what you may be overlooking.
Learn to widen, narrow and shift your attention more deliberately, so you can stay connected to what is actually happening, rather than becoming consumed by the loudest, most urgent or most familiar signals.
03
Accountability
Take responsibility for the map you’re bringing to the territory.
Adaptive leadership requires more than holding others accountable.
It means examining your own role in the patterns you want to change.
Learn to move beyond blame, certainty and automatic reaction — and take greater ownership of how you interpret, influence and respond.
Who is this for?
Senior and emerging leaders
Executive and leadership teams
Transformation and change leaders
HR and people leaders
People navigating complexity, conflict or change
Those committed to expanding their capacity for learning and growth
What leaders are saying
This framework has stuck with my team unlike any other leadership programme.
Ami is an incredible coach who authentically embodies everything she teaches. This is an absolute game changer.”
Tanya Nolan
Managing Editor, Audio News & Current Affairs, ABC
Ami’s work doesn’t hand you ready-made answers—it makes you a radically better thinker. Clear, accessible, and quietly transformative, the frameworks in The Map Gap are the exact tools that have delivered lasting, systemic change for the high-level leaders we serve.”
Dana Lightbody
CEO, The Leadership Institute
I have been able to transform the way I think and interact with everyone and everything around me. In an AI-centric world, we are all going to have to learn a new depth of thinking, understanding and acting.
Marcus Robbins
Former Chief Digital Adviser at Fujitsu Consulting, Founder and CEO
Your facilitator Ami Cook
Ami Cook is an experienced leadership facilitator, professional coach, counsellor and corporate consultant who has spent more than a decade working with CEOs, senior executives, leadership teams and high performers.
Her experience spans leadership development, coaching, strategy and business transformation, including senior leadership roles before founding MindNavigator®. She brings a rare combination of deep psychological insight, systems thinking and practical organisational experience — enabling her to work with both the human dynamics beneath complex challenges and the realities leaders face every day.
Ami is an internationally accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Licensed Professional Counsellor and former ICF Coach Mentor. Her work draws on a broad range of leading coaching and development methodologies, alongside neuroscience, psychology, systems thinking and contemplative traditions.
Known for creating highly engaging, challenging and psychologically safe learning environments, Ami helps leaders move beyond simply understanding new ideas to seeing their own patterns, challenging the assumptions that may be limiting them and applying new ways of thinking to real challenges in real time.
She is the creator of MindNavigator® and author of The Map Gap.
Reserve Your Seat
$1850 AUD
2 days in-person, including lunch and refreshments + your own copy of The Map Gap