The Complexity Code

Influence at the Edge of Chaos

When: April 1st - May 20th

Early Bird Price: $500 CAD

Join Us Today With a $125 Deposit

  • Your deposit of $125.00 will save your place in the 2026 Spring cohort.

    You will be sent an invoice for the remainder ($375) in the new year that will be due February 15th, 2026.

Course Includes:

Access to the Complexity Code Learning Platform:

  • One live orientation and wrap-up sessions (2).

  • Six pre-recorded modules that include engaging presentations of complexity concepts, principles, and practices, experiential activities, and conversations with domain experts.

  • A downloadable guide to complexity principles by Julian Norris

  • Weekly downloadable personal and professional practices

  • Weekly downloadable handouts that include tools, tactics, and takeaways

  • Additional resources to support your leadership journey

  • Three live Q+A sessions

Course Modules

Module 1: Seeing the Invisible – Reorienting to Systems and Complexity

April 1st

Like learning to see the mycorrhizal networks that connect forest ecosystems, you'll develop perception for the hidden patterns, relationships, flows and interdependencies that shape our world. Learn practical frameworks for seeing systems as living fields rather than mechanical machines along with strategies to shift from reactive problem-solving to systemic sensemaking.

Module 2: Self and System - The Inner Game of Complexity Leadership

April 8th

Just as a tree's health affects the entire forest network, your own state of consciousness and development influences every system you touch. This module focuses on cultivating the foundational complexity-specific capacities (e.g. holding paradox, somatic awareness, perspectival fluidity)needed to lead from optimal states in times of high uncertainty and consequence.

Module 3: Welcome to the Matrix – Relational Systems, Coherence & Network Intelligence

April 15th

In living systems, relationship is structure. This module studies the hidden architecture of networks - the feedback loops, invisible patterns, and relational fields that shape culture and outcomes. We’ll explore how the quality and coherence of relationships transform what’s possible in teams, organizations, and movements, and learn to cultivate the conditions for greater collective intelligence and emergence.

Module 4: Herding Butterflies – Practical Strategies for Leverage and Influence

April 22nd

You can't force a river to flow, but you can remove the obstacles. This module offers biomimetic strategies for finding leverage points, designing safe-to-fail experiments, and influencing systems through connection and emergence rather than force and control. You’ll learn to work with constraints, pattern interventions, and phase shifts to enable change that unfolds organically rather than through top-down control.

Module 5: The Dao of Complexity – Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leaders

April 29th

Indigenous cultures and contemplative traditions understood living systems long before complexity science existed. In this module we’ll explore how Indigenous, Taoist, and contemplative perspectives on flow, reciprocity, and interdependence are bringing a relationally-grounded, ethical and critical lens to systems thinking and complexity leadership. And we’ll invite practical inquiry around how to deepen our capacity to act wisely within the web of relationships that sustain all life.

Module 6: Positive Deviance – Leading from the Emerging Future

May 6th

In ecosystems, innovation emerges at the edges where different environments meet. Learn to spot and support the subtle innovations already breaking through in your system, align with evolutionary purpose, and lead change that is both grounded and visionary. This is leadership as midwifery - sensing the future’s faint signals and nurturing them into form. We’ll explore how to amplify breakthroughs, cultivate change from the margins, and become a steward of what wants to emerge next.

Why This Program Exists

On the Trail of Wise Practice

We stand at a species-level inflection point—what may be the most significant liminal moment in the human story. The convergence of ecological collapse, technological acceleration, and social upheaval reveals the profound inadequacy of our existing paradigms.

We possess unprecedented knowledge, technology, and resources. We can sequence genomes, harness renewable energy, and connect instantly across continents. Yet we remain mysteriously unable to address our most pressing challenges—not because we lack solutions, but because we lack the collective capacity to implement them.

This is not an information problem. It is a wisdom problem. We know what needs to be done but cannot free ourselves from the patterns that created our current crises. We have the means but not the integrated capacity to act on what we know. We remain trapped in ways of thinking, being, and relating that were never designed for the complexity we face.

Beyond Traditional Leadership

The Ecology of Influence

At the intersection of personal mastery, organizational transformation, and ecological awareness lies a critical intelligence - Complexity Consciousness. This isn't another leadership methodology or management framework. It's the foundational ground of being that enables leaders to see patterns others miss, influence webs of relationship others can't perceive, and create change that actually sustains itself—like a healthy ecosystem.

This immersive experience develops three core capacities that distinguish complexity-fluent leaders:

  1. Systemic Perception: The capacity to see the invisible patterns, properties, connections, and leverage points that drive real change across living systems

  2. Embodied Presence: Cultivating the inner meta-skills needed to lead from optimal states in real-world, high-pressure contexts

  3. Applied Wisdom: Integrating timeless principles with cutting-edge science to lead more skillfully and act more creatively within uncertainty

Additional Detail

  • This program attracts leaders who sense that something fundamental has shifted in how the world works—and who are ready to evolve their approach accordingly.

    You might be:

    • A senior executive whose traditional strategies aren't generating the results they used to

    • An entrepreneur or innovator tackling challenges that resist conventional problem-solving

    • A change agent working at the intersection of multiple systems and stakeholder groups

    • An emerging leader who wants to develop capabilities for an uncertain, interconnected future

    • A seasoned professional ready to integrate your experience with deeper systemic understanding

  • Format: Six intensive hybrid modules delivered over 6 weeks through a carefully designed blend of:

    • Weekly, pre-recorded complexity microdoses with faculty and special guests (downloadable)

    • Real-world application where you test frameworks in your actual leadership context

    • Weekly land-based, somatic, and contemplative practices for embodied integration

    • Three live office hours with faculty and special guests

    • Two live orientation and wrap up sessions with faculty

    • Downloadable guide to complexity principles by Julian Norris

  • This is not:

    • A quick-fix leadership hack or technique-based training

    • Designed for leaders who prefer certainty and control-based approaches

    • About optimizing existing systems rather than transforming them

    • A theoretical exploration—it requires real-world application and personal practice

    • For those seeking immediate, measurable ROI in traditional business metrics

    This is:

    • A foundational recalibration of how you understand and practice leadership

    • For leaders ready to work with uncertainty as a creative force

    • About developing capacities that improve everything else you do

    • A practice-based immersion requiring ongoing inquiry and experimentation

    • An investment in long-term adaptive capacity and systemic impact

    • Way more than professional development. It's an initiation into the kind of leadership our world actually needs.

  • Faculty Team: Learn from practitioners who bridge complexity science, deep wisdom traditions, and real-world leadership experience.

  • The content modules will drop each Wednesday from April 1st - May 6th along with the practices, handouts, and resources for download.

    We recommend participants set time aside each week to immerse themselves in the learning, and to be present with questions, insights, and reflections on the live Q+A sessions. You will get the most out of this course by doing so!

    That said, moving through the module content will be at your own pace and will not need to be complete by the course end. You will maintain a login and password where you can access the content up to one year after it drops.

    The live intro and closing session, along with the live Q+A sessions will take place at 11 - 12pm MST on the following dates:

    Intro Session: April 1st

    Closing Session: May 20th

    Live Q+A: April 10th

    Live Q+A: April 14th

    Live Q+A: May 8th

    All live sessions will be recorded and posted on the learning platform for those who cannot attend.

Learning Outcomes

Systemic Vision

See the deeper patterns and webs of relationship where others see only chaos or isolated problems.

Stakeholder Alchemy

Engage effectively across power differentials and worldview differences to generate collective intelligence.

Embodied Leadership

Access optimal states of consciousness and somatic intelligence for high-stakes leadership moments.

Chaos Navigation

Make sophisticated decisions in uncertain and complex environments using frameworks that account for emergence.

Cultivate Influence

Create meaningful change through connection and emergence rather than force and control.

Innovation Catalyst

Identify and amplify the positive deviance already emerging in your system.

Complexity Metaskills

Cultivate a constellation of critical behavioral and psycho-emotional competencies.

Ecosystem Thinking

Understand how your actions ripple through networks of relationship from local to global scales.

Future Fitness

Develop the adaptive capacity and resilience needed for leading in an exponentially changing world

Critical Timing: Why Now?

We're living through what systems theorists call a "phase transition"—a moment when old patterns break down and new ones haven't yet stabilized.

The leaders who thrive in the next decade won't be those who got better at the old game, but those who learned to play by the new rules emerging all around us.

The window for developing these capacities is narrowing. The pace of change is accelerating, interconnections are deepening, and the stakes are rising. The leaders who develop greater complexity fluency and consciousness now will have a significant advantage over those who wait.

Join Us April 2026

$500 Total With a $125 Deposit Now

  • Your deposit of $125.00 will save your place in the 2026 Spring cohort.

    You will be sent an invoice for the remainder ($375) in the new year that will be due February 15th, 2026.