New Geographic Society
Some thinking can only be done together
New Geo is a society for reckoning with what’s next — in the company of others doing the same.
You can solve a problem alone. You cannot reckon alone.
In Practice
Where reckoning together has been put to work.
What We Do
Keynotes & talks
The moment we’re all in, in voices you don’t usually get to hear together.
A New Geo keynote isn’t an answer or a forecast. It’s an experience of the present from many vantages — the technologist’s, the policymaker’s, the philosopher’s, the dissenter’s — held side by side until eyes widen in the room. Audiences leave with the same facts they came in with, arranged differently, so that better questions become clear.
For conferences, leadership offsites, investor gatherings, and rooms where the agenda would benefit from stretching everyone’s perspective.
Advisory: assumption architecture
Surface what your team is quietly seeing differently, before it costs you.
Most leadership teams aren’t held back by what they don’t know. They’re held back by what they each assume — about the market, the people, the strategy, the moment — and rarely have the space to test against each other. Assumption architecture makes divergences visible: through rigorous reference cases, a tailored diagnostic to surface what leaders see differently, and the conversations to turn those differences into strategic clarity.
For executive teams navigating high-stakes inflection points.
Compass
For teams who’d rather practice judgment than perform it.
Most leadership teams develop judgment one decision at a time, alone, and only realize what was missing in retrospect. Compass is a different rhythm: a sustained cadence of timely provocations from people worth listening to, paired with facilitated team conversations that turn each provocation into shared so what — now what — where next. Over time, the team’s collective judgment sharpens — not because they’ve absorbed more content, but because they’ve practiced reckoning together as a regular muscle.
Built for executive teams, leadership teams, and intact functions whose decisions don’t get easier as the world gets more complex.
Campfires
For individuals who’d rather reckon than perform.
A Campfire is a small, facilitated gathering — convened around a vital question, held to a culture of honesty, and designed to produce the kind of thinking that only happens between peers who don’t have to pretend with each other. No stage. No agenda full of frameworks. Just the rare room where you can think out loud about what you’re actually carrying.
Built on a methodology developed over a decade of practice, Campfires can be convened around a topic you choose, a cohort you bring — or grab a seat in the open Campfire Series.
Uncertain by Design
A deep research series for readers reckoning as they go.
What it means to lead, work, and live in a moment that keeps refusing the maps we’ve inherited — and the discipline of finding our way without them. An illustrated book, written one chapter at a time, with readers in the room. Read it; use it to start the conversations you need most.
Coming Soon ...
Canopy — opening later this year
A society for those carrying weight together.
Canopy is what’s created when reckoning together becomes ongoing — holding what’s next across time and space, not just for a session.
Age of Discovery
Age Of Discovery: Navigating The Storms Of Our Second Renaissance is Chris's international best-selling guide to the 21st century.
Now is humanity’s best moment. And our most fragile. The same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others. And they tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.
In the face of all our crises, we can flourish. Age of Discovery shows us how.
About New Geo
New Geo is a young society in an older tradition: that the most important thinking in any era happens between people who’ve earned each other’s trust. It’s convened by Chris Kutarna — Oxford fellow, bestselling author of Age of Discovery, and a longtime guide for leaders thinking past the maps they’ve inherited — together with a founding circle of practitioners and members who reckon, write, and host alongside him. The keynotes are his. The methodology behind Campfires, Assumption Architecture, Compass, and Canopy is the work of a decade by collaborators across continents.
Reckoning is what we do when the map runs out.
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A brief note that widens your map, once or twice a month.
A brief letter, once or twice a month. Field notes from the practice. Occasional invitations to gather.
Field Notes
Traces from the frontier of thought
