The In-Depth Programs
EARLY BIRD RATES END AUG 31ST!
Four programs, Oct-Nov 2026. Each, 3 live sessions, 30 people max.
Achieve the impact you desire in your work, life and community
With the rapid pace of change today, we all need to adopt new approaches and tap more deeply into our own inner resources to achieve what we desire. Whether this means staying competitive in your current industry, seeking out a new life path, or launching a community initiative.
John Hagel will be your guide on the journey from what is holding you back to finding your focus and energy, connecting with others and taking action toward meaningful impact. During these live, interactive sessions, John walks you through his Three Pillars step-by-step, with a group limited to 30 individuals to ensure a quality experience.
Sign up as an individual or bring your team along. Organizations can sponsor a cohort, or have us bring the programs as private internal sessions.
Not sure, yet?
Start with a Live Online 60-minute Intro Session with
John Hagel this September.
How they work
How they work
How they work
Each program runs as three live, interactive two-hour sessions across roughly two weeks.
- Limited to thirty participants for a quality experience
- Group discussion with John Hagel and the Center Team
- Small-group exercises to deepen the practice
- Exercises between sessions, to reinforce concepts and practices
- All sessions: 8:00 to 10:00am Pacific / 11:00am to 1:00pm Eastern / 17:00 to 19:00 CET
How they work
How they work
INCLUDED WITH EVERY PROGRAM
- A copy of John Hagel's most recent book, The Journey Beyond Fear
- Continued support through coaching and community after the program ends
The four programs
The four run in sequence and build on each other. Pillar 1 gets two programs because the personal narrative work has two distinct halves, seeing the narrative you are in and then evolving it.
PILLAR 1a | Your Personal Narrative Shapes Your Life
Three 2-hour live online sessions
October 1, 6 and 13, 2026
The journey begins by discovering how fear of the future holds us back. Exploring our Personal Narratives.
This first step of the Opportunity Narratives Series helps us uncover our internal messaging. Do we view the future as primarily threat or opportunity?
When we ponder our aspirations, what do we tend to tell ourselves? Is our internal messaging empowering, or does it hold us back from taking action?
In this engaging and interactive 3-day online program, John Hagel will walk us through his proven concepts and exercises to help reveal internal narratives we may not have recognized before. Through discussion, small-group exercises and individual work, we will gain new understanding for the narratives shaping our lives.
Across three sessions you will, through discussion and exercises:
- Gain understanding for the power of narrative and how it pulls people to act, innovate, and learn
- Discover the narrative currently directing your choices, and where it came from
- Work the two diagnostic questions John uses: are you focused more on threat or on opportunity, and are you asking others for help or going it alone
- Test what your narrative predicts against what has actually happened in your life recently
- Identify which parts of it you would keep if you were choosing deliberately
PILLAR 1b | Evolving Your Personal Narrative
Three 2-hour live online sessions
October 15, 19 and 21, 2026
After discovering the narratives that shape our lives in Part 1 of the Opportunity Narratives Series, this program introduces the tools for actively evolving our Personal Narratives.
How do we wish to shape the messaging in our minds about our agency and possible futures? What is our call to action to others for addressing our desired future? Institutional, geographical and movement narratives can also be powerful catalysts to help us evolve our emotions and empower our actions that follow.
John Hagel will introduce proven tools and exercises in this engaging online program. Through discussion, small-group exercises and individual work, we will learn new methods for evolving our inner narratives into inspiring calls to action to ourselves and others.
Across three sessions you will, through discussion and exercises:
- Learn the nine characteristics of a strong opportunity-based narrative
- Discover the implicit narratives around you and what they evoke: opportunity or threat?
- Practice reframing existing narratives at work or in your geography into opportunity narratives
- Develop your own opportunity narrative that excites you and motives others to help you
PILLAR 2 | Discover Your Passion of the Explorer
Three 2-hour live online sessions
October 27, 29 and November 2, 2026
Uncover the Passion of the Explorer that is within all of us. This is John Hagel's term for the very specific form of passion that generates deep excitement about opportunities in the future.
Based on his research, all environments of sustained extreme performance improvement reflected the Passion of the Explorer.
This engaging program with John Hagel helps draw out what activities and topics fuel our energy and focus for taking action toward concrete impact in our lives, work and communities. This form of passion also makes us excited about addressing unexpected challenges and reaching out to others for help in addressing these challenges.
Across three sessions you will, through discussion and exercises:
- Gain new insight into the different forms of passion and how the Passion of the Explorer differs
- Understand the five attributes of the Passion of the Explorer
- Learn how your Opportunity Narrative can be the catalyst for the Passion of the Explorer
- Identify where this passion already shows up in your life, which is often outside your job
- Practice the steps for connecting with you Passion of the Explorer
- Practice treating an unfamiliar challenge as the interesting part rather than the risk
- Build the connecting instinct deliberately, since it is the component most people have let atrophy
PILLAR 3 | Unleash the Power of Platforms
Three 2-hour live online sessions
November 5, 10 and 12, 2026
In a rapidly changing world, acquiring knowledge is important, but creating new knowledge is even more important.
This third stage of the journey goes into depth on Pillar 3, unleashing the Power of Platforms to accelerate learning to drive action and impact.
This program builds on Pillars 1 & 2, to apply those prior learnings to initiating meaningful change.
John Hagel will discuss the power of Impact Groups, groups of 3-15 people who develop deep, trust-based relationships around a shared goal and who are driven to act and learn together in their pursuit of increasing their impact in a specific domain.
The process of taking action together and applying what they learn to each additional action while encouraging each other to achieve more with each step accelerates learning for everyone at a far faster rate than anyone could attain on their own.
When these groups connect into larger networks of other groups, learning becomes exponential.
Across three sessions you will:
- Gain understanding for how Opportunity Narratives and Passion of the Explorer contribute to unleashing the power of platforms
- Learn about the characteristics of Learning Platforms and Impact Groups and how to build them
- Explore different types of platforms, how they are helping you learn faster, and you could use them differently
- Explore which domain of impact you would want a group organized around
ALL FOUR PROGRAMS
Is this for you?
The programs suit people who are ready for hands-on learning and action. Everyone arrives with their own situation, and the practices can be applied to real world experiences. This will not be a lecture.
Participants come from corporate leadership, career transitions, team leadership, and social movements.
What participants have said
Following on his insightful concepts of 'Power of Pull' and 'Edge Perspectives,' John Hagel once again provides 'revelational' inspiration through his 'Personal Narrative' exercises.
John Callan, CEO, Ursa Major Associates
Excellent content, and thoughtfully moderated, this workshop helps disentangle your inner psyche through artful and probing questions for personal and professional clarity.
Rod Aparicio, CEO, Brand Unstucker, Hesse, Germany
The guidance and insights were powerful, the format was quite engaging and actionable on the spot, building new relationships in a safe environment.
Jack Stephenson, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Common questions
Each program stands on its own, and you can start with any of them. The two Personal Narrative programs are the exception. The second builds directly on the first, so we recommend taking them in order. If you are doing all four, the sequence listed is the intended path.
No. The Intro Session provides an initial overview of the Center's programs, and the $60 is credited toward your first In-Depth Program. You are welcome to go straight into a full-length program.
Enough to matter and not enough to disrupt your week. The exercises are intended to reinforce concepts and practices from the program sessions.
Enough to matter and not enough to disrupt your week. The exercises are intended to reinforce concepts and practices from the program sessions.
We will not be recording the sessions because of the personal nature of the content, but we can work with you so you can stay caught up with the group.
Each program is limited to thirty participants total.
Yes. Team and cohort enrollment is available, along with tailored engagements.
Not ready for a full program?
The September Intro Sessions are one hour, cost $60, and that $60 can be credited to your first full-length program.
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