Hello. I’m Don Springer. I have a personal mission to create value that enriches individual lives and transforms organizations.  

Welcome to Strategic Wayfinders, a resource of knowledge, skills, and practices to help board directors and advisors steer a business and other organizations through uncertainty and complexity.

Whether the business is an online or brick-and-mortar business, a product or service business, a provider or affiliate, high-tech or low-tech, you’ll find information, flexible frameworks, and actionable tips to guide the venture through the pivot points and life cycles of progress and growth.

Growth Experience and Research

Explore wayfinding techniques and approaches for an evolving future. Learn how to steer strategic endeavors by accessing years of growth experience combined with the latest research to empower you in using the Craft of Strategic Steerage for yourself and others.

Learn to leverage each of your experiences, skills, and knowledge in the service of the next venture, recognizing similar and dissimilar patterns and creating meaning and value each time through collaboration with others.

Today, business and growth research comes from many fields: neuroscience, entrepreneurship, philosophy, systems thinking, social science, game theory, economics, literature, management science, organizational behavior, etc. 

Leverage an insatiable curiosity to keep learning in multiple fields and pass that along to others through collaborative ventures.

Mastering the Craft of Strategic Steerage

Find guidance on how to steer a business, new or old, large or small, within a complex adaptive environment. Learn new skills, practices, and attitudes to hone the Craft of Strategic Steerage.

Find exciting new information about making decisions in the face of uncertainty and steering ventures in complex environments emerging with new products/services, new companies, or new markets.

The world is in flux, and change is speeding up, not settling down. Our experience with COVID-19 accelerated our awareness of these trends, among others.

When trying to predict man-made and natural futures, you forecast the best you can, create execution and risk plans, garner resources to execute those plans, and then move forward to make your vision a reality…only to be continually faced with changes and surprises.

As Alvin Toffler said,

Join me in learning how to dynamically move forward in the face of uncertainty, complexity, and emergence.

Start with reflections, principles, and research from the FREE 5-Day Email Course: “Wayfinding” delivered directly to your inbox.