Stop waiting for certainty. Get grounded in what matters and take your next step with clarity.

When the future is unclear, it’s natural to wait — for more information, more confidence, the right answer to appear, or simply a better sense of what to do next. But waiting for certainty can keep you stuck.

Uncertainty is part of work, leadership, career transitions, and life. The challenge is not to eliminate it. The challenge is to stay grounded enough to think clearly, focus on what matters, and begin moving before every answer is available.

This session will help you make that shift: from waiting for certainty to taking meaningful action with more clarity and confidence.

You’ll leave with the ability to:

• Stay grounded when the future feels unclear or fast-changing

• Recognize when avoidance is disguising itself as planning, preparation, or “being realistic”

• Respond differently when discomfort, uncertainty, or fear of getting it wrong shows up

• Reconnect with the deeper reason a task, decision, or next step matters

• Move from circling the task to taking one clear committed action

Apply the session content immediately to your work, leadership, career, or life decisions.

This is a 90-minute interactive workshop with brief teaching, guided reflection, practical exercises, and optional sharing

Registration:

• Free for CSI Members

• $45 for non-members

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Staying Strong Through Change and Uncertainty is a community learning series hosted by the Centre for Social Innovation and delivered by Career Aviators. It is designed to help business owners and professionals stay grounded, think clearly and keep contributing through the growing change and uncertainty we are all experiencing in our work, businesses, families and communities.

The series responds to the pressures many people are facing right now, including changes in work and technology, financial strain, climate concerns, conflict, career transitions and burnout. Each session offers practical tools for understanding these pressures and navigating change with greater clarity, resilience and purpose.

About Your Facilitator
Wayne Greenway has spent his career developing practical ways to strengthen psychological resilience in people facing profound uncertainty and change.

His early work focused on seriously ill children and youth and their families. He developed family-oriented, multi-system programs for paediatric teaching centres and held a faculty position with Queen’s University’s Faculty of Medicine for 16 years.

Wayne later applied this work with military families, people living with neurodegenerative disease, and professionals navigating career uncertainty. He is the creator of The Phoenix Series, a practical, research-informed program that helps people manage self-doubt, make sound decisions, and move forward through challenging periods of change.