A live, 60-minute session covering the first half of the Map vs. Territory framework: the core concept, the three domains where organizations drift from their own story, and how to get honest answers before your team ever sits down together. Built from the same framework as the self-paced Kit, with me in the room live.

What This Session Covers

• The core idea behind the whole framework: the gap between your map (org chart, mission statement, written policy) and your territory (who has influence, what gets rewarded, how work flows), and why that gap is normal
• The three domains where misalignment shows up: Structure, Communication, and Systems, Products & Programs, with live discussion of what each looks like in your organization specifically
• The ten interview questions for getting honest one-on-one answers before a group ever sits down together, including how to ask them in a way that gets truthful responses
• Live time to start naming your own organization's gaps, with real-time coaching instead of a you sitting with a worksheet alone in a room

What You Leave With

A clear, shared language for talking about misalignment with your team, and a first honest pass at naming where your own map and territory have drifted apart, checked against a real person who does this work daily instead of against a written framework on a screen.

Format

One live 60-minute session on Zoom (logged in through my student portal), plus live Q&A. Offered as a scheduled open session or booked privately for your own leadership team. Worksheets covering the domains and interview questions are included.

Who This Is For

Leaders who want to work through the diagnostic part of this framework live, naming what's going on underneath the surface, with the chance to ask questions specific to your organization as they come up.

A note on order: Part 2 (Prioritizing Alignment) assumes you've already named some gaps. Most people take Part 1 first, or work through the self-paced Kit's early lessons, before booking Part 2.

About Your Instructor

Melissa Pierce is a fractional Chief of Staff and Operations Officer who has spent two decades combining a background in documentary filmmaking with operational leadership. Finding ground truth is what she has always done, first as an interviewer listening for what a story was actually about beneath what people said on camera, now as an operator listening for what an organization actually values beneath its official story.

Map vs. Territory: Finding Ground Truth · melissapierce.com