Explore or Expire

Exploratory Leadership Principles for a Rapidly Changing World

Tom Wiese with Nate Garvis

A guidebook for leaders who dare to journey further

Just like legendary explorers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs must navigate through unknown territories, pivot around unforeseen obstacles, and iterate toward their desired destination. Through the concept of Exploratory Leadership, Studio/E founders Tom Wiese and Nate Garvis help you discover more possibility in your life – and with more possibility, you can create the future you desire. Explore or Expire will outfit you with the principles – and their supporting lessons, questions, and practices – that you need to tackle the unknown. You will emerge equipped to take real actions so that you can successfully explore, launch, and navigate through the perpetual change of leadership and life.

Reviews

Leadership starts with restlessness: something needs to be better. This book provides the compass and map to take the first steps and discover who you need to be to make that difference.

Michael Bungay Stanier author of bestseller The Coaching Habit

Studio/E has a gift for helping high-integrity leaders discover new ways forward, even in the face of chaos and uncertainty. Exploratory Leadership provides not just new levels of awareness about what’s possible in today’s fast-shifting business realms, but also gratifying new pathways for getting there intact.

Pilar Gerasimo founding editor of Experience Life Magazine, co-host of The Living Experience Podcast, and author of The Healthy Deviant

The art of exploration is the most effective approach to thriving in this rapidly changing world. Exploratory Leadership pushes individuals and teams to enter the unknown and emerge as more competent, creative, and generative humans.

Cheryl Yaffe Kiser Executive Director, The Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab co-author of Creating Social Value: A Guide for Leaders and Changemakers

Tom Wiese is an advisor and legal counsel to business leaders, a content and tool designer, a senior fellow at Babson College’s Institute for Social Innovation and Social Innovation Lab, and a skier who shares in the great expedition of life with his wife and four children.

Nate Garvis is a civic designer and serves as strategic counsel to leaders across many sectors. He is a senior fellow at Babson College’s Institute for Social Innovation and Social Innovation Lab, a former Fortune 50 public affairs executive, a musician, and an experienced global traveler who has used the planet and its people as a classroom for himself, his wife, and their two daughters.

ISBN 978-1-77458-426-2
$23.95 CAD • $18.95 USD
Published SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2023

5 x 8 • 188 Pages
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