BRIDGING THE INNER DIVIDE

A workshop for leaders—and the coaches who guide them—navigating how to lead with clarity in uncertain times

📅 Tuesday, April 7th, 2026   🕐 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET   💻 Live on Zoom

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You're leading through something unprecedented

The ground is shifting.  Your organization is navigating competing agendas, shifting power structures, and pressure from every direction. The people above you want results. The people beside you are protecting their territory. The people below you are watching how you handle it.

And you—the one who’s supposed to provide direction—may not be sure where you stand.

This isn’t a failure of strategy. It’s an adaptive challenge. And adaptive challenges can’t be solved with better processes or clearer communication. They require something harder: a change in how you see yourself, your role, and what you’re willing to say out loud.

If you’ve been telling yourself that “staying neutral” is the professional thing to do—that leadership means rising above the fray—this workshop is an invitation to examine that assumption.

Because neutrality isn’t neutral. And in a moment like this, it might be costing you more than you realize.

What if Your "I Don't Play Politics" Stance is a Leadership Blind Spot?

Ron Heifetz, who developed Adaptive Leadership at Harvard, makes a critical distinction: technical challenges can be solved with existing expertise. Adaptive challenges require a shift in values, beliefs, and behaviors.

Most leaders are trained to solve technical problems. We’re rewarded for having answers, providing clarity, projecting confidence. But the environment we’re leading in right now isn’t asking for answers — it’s asking for something harder: the willingness to examine our own assumptions while we lead others through uncertainty.

Here’s the leadership trap: when faced with an adaptive challenge, we default to technical solutions. We focus on operational excellence while avoiding the harder questions. We tell ourselves we’re being professional when we’re actually protecting ourselves from discomfort.

‘I don’t play politics’ can be one of those protections.

It sounds like wisdom: I stay above the fray. I focus on the work. I treat everyone the same.

But what if that stance is keeping you from:

  • Having the honest conversations your team actually needs?
  • Taking a position when taking a position is exactly what the moment requires?
  • Leading with the full weight of who you are — not just the safe, palatable version?

Self-authorship—the ability to author your own values and act congruently with them—is the developmental edge of adult leadership. It’s what separates managers from leaders. And it requires knowing where you stand.

The leaders who will matter in this moment aren’t the ones who stayed safe. They’re the ones who did the work to know where they stand—and led from that place.

What 'Staying Above the Fray' Is Actually Costing You

Your team is watching. Not just what you say—what you don’t say. What you steer around. What you refuse to name.

When leaders avoid the adaptive work, it shows up in predictable ways:

Erosion of Trust

Your team senses the gap between what you say matters and what you’re willing to address. They may not name it, but they feel it.

Missed Moments for Moral Leadership

The moments that build loyalty and inspire followership aren’t the easy ones. They’re the ones where you stood for something when it was hard.

Your Own Disconnection

When you can’t bring your full self to your leadership, you lose access to the very qualities that make you effective: conviction, presence, and the ability to hold complexity without collapsing.

The research is clear: leaders who develop cognitive and moral complexity—the ability to hold multiple perspectives while maintaining their own center—are more effective in volatile, uncertain environments. But that complexity can’t be developed in theory. It requires examining your own inner landscape.

What This Workshop Is

Bridging the Inner Divide is a 3-hour virtual workshop for leaders who are ready to do the inner work that most leadership programs never touch.

Using the Immunity to Change® framework developed at Harvard by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, you’ll create a personal map of your inner divide:

  • What you want to be doing as a leader right now
  • What you’re actually doing (or avoiding) instead
  • The hidden commitments that are protecting you—at a cost
  • The Big Assumption underneath it all

I’ve been incorporating the Immunity to Change framework into my leadership and coaching toolkit for over 15 years. It’s rigorous, it’s revealing, and it works.

The difference now: the stakes are higher. And the work is personal.

This isn’t about what you should believe politically. It’s about whether you’ve done the inner work to know where you stand—and what’s been keeping you from that clarity.

What You'll Experience

In this guided workshop, you will:

  • Learn the four-column Immunity to Change framework—what Robert Kegan calls "an x-ray of your psychological immune system"
  • Examine how the current moment is intersecting with your leadership identity
  • Complete your own personal map through a guided process
  • Identify your Big Assumption—the fear-based belief that's been operating in the background
  • Design a concrete experiment to begin testing that assumption

You’ll walk away with:

  • Your personal Immunity to Change map—a clear picture of what's been operating beneath the surface
  • Your Big Assumption named—the fear-based belief that's been running the show
  • A concrete experiment to test that assumption—so the work doesn't end when the workshop does
  • Clarity on how your inner divide is showing up in your leadership
  • A teach-back video of the ITC framework and experiment design for your continued reference
  • Worksheets to continue the work on your own

Tuesday, April 7th

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET · Live on Zoom

$297 · Limited spaces available

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Who This Is For

This workshop is for you if:
  • You're a leader navigating how to show up in a polarized, uncertain environment
  • You've been defaulting to "neutral" because it feels safer—but something about that doesn't sit right anymore
  • You're sensing that your team needs something from you that you haven't been willing to give
  • You believe that leadership development includes your own inner work, not just skill-building
  • You're open to the possibility that clarity about your own values will make you a more effective leader, not a compromised one
  • You're a coach who works with leaders and know you need to do this work yourself before you can hold space for it with clients
This workshop is not for you if:
  • You're looking for someone to tell you what to believe
  • You want tactical advice on managing politically divided teams (that's a different workshop)
  • You're satisfied that staying above the fray is serving you and the people you lead
  • You're not willing to examine your own assumptions

A note on this workshop: This is a facilitated experience for your own leadership development, not a training on the Immunity to Change methodology. If you’re a fellow ITC practitioner, you’re welcome—as a participant doing your own work.

About Your Facilitator

Terri Altschul spent 35 years in leadership and organizational development—including roles as VP of Learning & Leadership Development at Morgan Stanley, Director of Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness at AstraZeneca, and Leadership Development Faculty at the American Management Association. She became a certified Immunity to Change® Coach and Facilitator through Harvard because she saw how powerfully the framework helped leaders get unstuck.

Today, Terri runs an active coaching practice focused on depth work for people navigating the second half of life—those standing at thresholds, ready to become who they haven’t yet been. She’s also the creator of The Visual Journaler™, a creative practice that helps people turn their inner wisdom into something they can see and hold. With over 4,000 coaching hours and training in Jungian depth psychology, Gestalt, trauma-informed coaching, and mindfulness-based approaches, her work lives at the intersection of insight and integration.

This workshop is Terri bringing it all together: the rigor of her organizational development background, the depth of her current practice, and her own lived experience of caring deeply while feeling frozen. She created it because she believes that before we can bridge the divides out there, we have to understand what’s happening in here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Not in the national or partisan sense — this workshop takes no position on political parties or current events. But leadership is inherently political in the organizational sense: navigating competing interests, managing power dynamics, deciding when to take a stand and when to hold back. This workshop is about understanding your own inner landscape well enough to lead through that complexity with clarity and conviction — rather than defaulting to neutrality because it feels safer.

Absolutely. This workshop is designed for anyone in a leadership role—whether you lead a team, an organization, a department, or a community. The framework applies to anyone facing adaptive challenges and wanting to lead with greater clarity and conviction.

You'll be doing reflective work throughout the workshop, and there will be opportunities for discussion. But you control what you share. The goal is your own clarity, not public disclosure. The space will be held with care.

No. To create a safe container for honest reflection, the live workshop is not recorded. You'll receive a separate teach-back video that walks through the ITC framework and experiment design process—something you can return to on your own time without any group discussion captured.

Not at all. I'll guide you through the entire process step by step. Whether this is your first encounter with ITC or you've worked with it before, you'll leave with your own completed map.

Email me at terri@terri.coach, and I'll let you know about future sessions.

Just Zoom. Camera use is encouraged to create a sense of connection, but it's not required. You'll also want paper and pen for the mapping work.

Yes—I offer private sessions for leadership teams and organizations. If you're interested in bringing this work to your team, reach out to me at terri@terri.coach, and we can discuss what that would look like.

Full refund if you cancel at least 7 days before the workshop. Within 7 days, no refunds—but you can transfer your registration to a future session or send a colleague in your place. Just email me at terri@terri.coach to make arrangements.

Before you can navigate the complexity out there, you have to understand what's happening in here.

The leaders who thrive in complexity aren’t the ones with the best strategies.
They’re the ones who’ve done the inner work to lead from a place of clarity.

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