Using design to help you get unstuck on what matters most
 

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The Art of Getting Unstuck (Executive Edition) is a program that uses design to help you get unstuck on what’s most important. In this edition uniquely designed for executives, we’ll come together as a cohort to explore getting unstuck specifically in the context of being at the peak of your career.

Our lives are like a house, with each room being a part of our identity (entrepreneur, CEO, parent, sibling, etc.).* We all have dusty rooms, rooms that are super important but not getting the energy they deserve.

When you are a CEO, senior leader or startup founder, it can be especially easy to neglect certain important parts of your life. (I know, I’ve been there many a time.) Often, a corresponding sense of guilt and overwhelm begins to accompany thoughts of those parts of life — the less we attend to them, the worse we feel. I call that the FlyTrap — we can get stuck partly by serving up guilt or angst. 

In this group experience**, leaders get time to reflect on what’s (really) important and to create easy and tangible ways to make change. Without angst and guilt. Participants have talked about how important areas of their lives were taking up a lot of space in their minds, but that after going through the program, these things felt much lighter and easier to attend to 

Specifically, participants will:

  • Explore what’s really important to you right now — and why

  • Pick one area of life you’d like to enrich and identify tangible, light ways to make it happen

  • Learn how to reframe this and other important things from heavy to light


*with thanks to Brad Stulberg for the analogy
**private coaching available if desired

 
 
 

Core program pillars:

  • We begin with grounding: getting clear on where you're stuck and what's really important to you and why. To do so, we'll use tools that have helped the world's biggest companies get unstuck... on you. We'll additionally tap into the major causes of underlying stickiness... from time constraints to guilt over neglecting an important area of life.

  • Once we’ve honed in on what’s really important and why, the next crucial step is to lighten it up… this is where experimentation comes to play. And I mean that literally: the goal of designing experiments is to make living into what’s important lighter and more fun. We’ll do this by designing light and nimble experiments you can run.

  • As executives, we're used to making things happen quickly. But when it comes to our personal lives, other people are involved and the approach needs to fit them as well as us. We’ll cover ways to talk about this (or not) with your loved ones or teams, and how to continue to evolve as you experiment.

You’ll leave with:

  • New clarity about why you’re stuck on the aspect of life you want to focus on (you pick the aspect) — and why it’s important

  • Actionable next steps and shared commitments

  • Tools to continue to proactively navigate your biggest priorities

  • A group of like-minded individuals who have shared ambitions (or, if your group knows each other already, connection on a deeper level)

 
 
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The Art of Getting Unstuck (Executive Edition) is offered as a group experience for small cohorts of executives.

These are generally run as offsites and include:

  • Two full days* of immersion (13 hours total)

  • Three check-in experiences throughout the subsequent year

  • Members-only private monthly newsletters

  • Amy is available between sessions via email for questions

“We loved our day and I would say it changed all of our lives. THANK YOU. It wasn’t the easiest crowd. You had 7 busy and exacting CEOs and everyone was like best day ever.”

Founder and CEO, Hipcamp (YPO experience)

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