Tracking Retreats

The Experience

Tracking is the oldest form of sense-making. It requires reading partial information, holding multiple hypotheses, making decisions without certainty, and adjusting as new information emerges. These are the same capacities required of senior leaders.

The retreats take place in the South African wilderness, led by James alongside renowned Master Tracker Renias Mhlongo. Renias has spent a lifetime developing the capacity to read landscapes, follow sign, and make decisions with incomplete information — the same capacities that matter in complex organizations.

The environment strips away the noise of organizational life and creates conditions for direct experience of judgment under uncertainty. Pattern recognition, awareness, and informed action — learned in the field, transferred to leadership.

What Makes This Different

More than a safari—this is a keystone expression of the practice. Identity-defining work that develops embodied judgment in ways that cannot be replicated in a conference room.

Who This Is For

Senior leaders and small leadership teams seeking an experience that develops judgment through direct engagement with uncertainty. Individuals ready to be uncomfortable, to not know, and to learn from the environment itself.

Format

• Small groups (6-10 participants)
• 5-7 days, fully immersive
• South Africa — working in partnership with Tracker Academy
• Led by James Linnett and Master Tracker Renias Mhlongo
• Annual retreats, scheduled selectively

Outcomes

• Embodied understanding of decision-making under uncertainty
• Direct experience of reading partial information
• Capacity to hold ambiguity without premature closure
• Perspective that transfers to organizational context