Before you solve the problem, learn to see it.

The work gets more complex. Seeing clearly matters more. 

Experienced professionals rarely struggle because they don't know enough process.

The harder moments happen when the process can't tell you what you're actually looking at.

A decision appears to have been made, but nothing moves.

Stakeholders agree in the room, then behave differently outside of it.

A delivery problem keeps returning despite stronger execution.

A team appears resistant, but resistance may not actually be the problem.

In complex organizations, what you see first isn't always the whole story.

Organizational awareness is the ability to notice what's happening around the work, test what you think it means, and exercise judgment before deciding what needs to change.

And it is a capability you can develop.

This is a Lab for a reason.

Organizational awareness isn't developed by simply listening to someone explain it.

You have to practice seeing.

In the Live Lab, you'll encounter ambiguous organizational situations before you're given an interpretation.

You'll notice what stands out to you. Make your own call. Hear what other experienced professionals saw. Then we'll examine the evidence together.

Decisions. Contradictions. Conditions.

We'll explore questions like:

• What actually happened?
• What did you infer from what happened?
• Where did observation become interpretation?
• What assumptions are shaping the way you're reading the situation?
• What information are you privileging?
• What might you be overlooking?
• What would you need to understand before deciding what to do?

There won't always be one correct interpretation.

The practice is becoming more deliberate about how you arrive at yours.

What you'll experience

Ambiguous, real-world organizational scenarios

Work through situations designed to surface how experienced professionals interpret incomplete, competing, and sometimes contradictory information.

A practical organizational awareness lens

Practice distinguishing observation from interpretation and using Decisions, Contradictions, and Conditions to investigate what may actually be happening.

Dori thinking out loud

Go inside the thinking with PMO and transformation strategist Dori Young as she shares what she notices, what she questions, what she doesn't assume, and how she determines what deserves further attention.

Perspective from the room

Compare what you saw with what other experienced professionals saw in exactly the same situation. Explore how experience, assumptions, role, and perspective can lead capable people to different conclusions.

Application to your own work

Bring the lens back to a real situation you're navigating and privately examine what you know, what you think you know, and what may deserve another look.

Your practice doesn't end when the Lab does.

Your registration includes 90 days of complimentary access to the Leadership Shift™ AI Coach.

Some of the most important opportunities to practice organizational awareness won't happen while you're sitting in the Live Lab.

They'll happen later.

Before an important meeting.

After a stakeholder interaction that doesn't quite make sense.

When a decision stalls.

When the explanation everyone has accepted stops matching what you're observing.

Your registration includes 90 days of complimentary access to the Leadership Shift™ AI Coach, an AI coaching experience built from Dori Young's leadership perspective, pattern recognition, questions, and distinctions.

Use the Coach to work through ambiguous situations as they happen and continue practicing how you notice, interpret, question, and respond.

90-Day Leadership Shift™ AI Coach Access | $87 Value

Because seeing differently for one Saturday isn't the goal.

Developing a way of seeing you can take with you is.

Is this room for you?

The Organizational Awareness Live Lab™ is designed for experienced professionals whose work requires them to navigate people, priorities, decisions, competing perspectives, and organizational complexity.

That includes professionals working across project and program leadership, PMOs, product, transformation, change, and other complex cross-functional environments.

You don't need a particular title.

You do need work complicated enough that process alone doesn't always tell you what to do next.

What you'll take with you

A stronger ability to distinguish what you observed from what you inferred.

A practical way to examine Decisions, Contradictions, and Conditions around the work.

Greater awareness of the assumptions influencing your interpretation.

Practice investigating ambiguous organizational situations before prescribing solutions.

A different way of looking at a real situation in your own work.

An Organizational Awareness Field Guide to support continued practice.

And 90 days of access to the Leadership Shift™ AI Coach to continue practicing with real situations after you leave the room.

Earn 3.5 PMI® PDUs 

Participants who hold a PMI certification can earn 3.5 Education PDUs for completing the Leadership Shift™ Live Lab. PDU category allocation across the PMI Talent Triangle will be provided with completion documentation.

You won't leave with another framework to memorize.

You'll leave better equipped to see before you act.