About Eric Owen Russell

I’m Eric Owen Russell, I am a Wayfinder.

For more than forty years, I’ve helped individuals, leaders, and organizations through moments when life or work has become difficult, or requires more than what is at hand.

Often, something important is changing, what once worked no longer does, or the pressure to act is growing. If that is where you are, you do not need to have the right words, a clear plan, or everything figured out before we begin.

I bring the perspective of an organizational behaviorist, the steadiness of a leadership guide, and the Wayfinding expertise of my Tuareg and Kru ancestry. I will help you take in the fuller shape of what is happening, recognize what may not yet be visible, and determine what deserves your attention now. Together, we will find your footing and discern what this moment requires, so you can make sound decisions and strengthen your capacity to meet what comes next.

My approach as a Wayfinder is:

• Beyond planning: I meet people where their existing maps no longer explain the ground beneath them.

• Participatory: I enter the field knowing that neither the situation nor we will remain unchanged.

• Embodied: I use the whole of my perception to read what analysis alone cannot reach.

• Iterative: I work through consequential steps rather than imposing a complete solution.

• Direction without route: I help establish an orientation strong enough to guide movement without hardening into a route.

• Pattern-reading: I look for the lines of force, fracture, possibility, and coherence already running through the situation.

• Composed: I keep the perceptual field wide enough for what matters to become visible.

• Collective: I help recover the knowing distributed across the whole field, especially what has been overlooked or silenced.

• Relational: I listen for how the terrain answers, then adjust our movement accordingly.

We will find the way we should go.