At TomorrowToday our team spends most of our days analysing global trends, decoding disruption, or what we refer to as the grey elephants, and equipping leaders to build future ready organisations.
Yet behind the leadership workshops, strategic alerts and researched keynotes are real people on very human learning journeys.
Today I’d like to share one of those stories by passing on a recent reflection penned by my colleague, Keith Coats:
“On Faith – Learning, Unlearning and Relearning”
Keith Coats, a co-founder of TomorrowToday and globally respected leadership thinker and futurist, has written a deeply personal reflection on dismantling the “scaffolding” that once defined his beliefs.
What begins as a faith narrative quickly becomes a masterclass in adaptive leadership:
• Unlearning outdated orthodoxies – why certainty, not doubt, restricts growth.
• Building adaptive capacity – how questioning core assumptions sparks innovation.
• Finding perspective – lessons from his work in 100+ countries and the East West Centre in Hawaii that reshaped Keith’s worldview.
• Leading with humility – practical echoes for C suite leaders navigating today’s paradoxical world.
If you’ve ever wrestled with entrenched mindsets – organisational or personal – you’ll recognise the terrain. Keith’s story offers both challenge and encouragement as we all learn, unlearn and relearn to stay relevant.
Read Keith’s full article here and give yourself a few quiet minutes to sit with a story that might just shift something in you.
Feel free to reply with your own reflections on his post; I know Keith would love to hear how his journey resonates with yours.
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Keith Coats is a founding partner of TomorrowToday Global and leadership thinker. He works with blue-chip companies and in multiple business school leadership programmes worldwide, helping senior leaders prepare today for the challenges and threats of tomorrow… and sometimes, the ‘day after tomorrow’.
Keith is based in South Africa, but presents globally, with recent travel including working throughout the UK, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, and, of course, South Africa.