Welcome to Follow the Knowing
The world feels more divided and uncertain than it has in a long time. Most of us sense that something must change, in our systems and structures, but also in how we relate to each other. What if the path forward begins with our humanity?
Follow the Knowing creates space for people to find and follow their Knowing, on their own and together. Because the challenges we face are not just systems problems. They are also human ones.
Becoming We
We are trying to solve collective challenges with individual minds. It isn't working.
The Becoming We framework begins with a simple idea: so much of how we experience our lives comes down to our relationship with the unknown. When we can see what we're carrying into each moment, we can choose differently. And that changes how we show up for each other, in our relationships, our teams, our organizations, and our communities.
This is not a leadership model or a team building exercise. It is a different way of being, practiced together, in the places where it matters most.
Where Do You Want to Begin?
Everyone comes to this work differently. Here are the pathways in.
I wish life came with a map.
Well, now it does. The Map of Human Experience is designed to help us navigate the unknown, and to see why we respond to life the way we do.
I want a thought partner.
Maybe you're navigating something specific: a situation at work, a relationship that feels stuck, or a decision you can't quite make. You'd like someone in your corner to help you think it through.
I want my team to thrive.
Maybe your team keeps hitting the same wall, or is facing a big change. You see a chance to grow together, and you want to open that door.
A Different Kind of Expertise
Susan Barbeau | Founder & CEO
Susan came to this work from two directions at once.
For nearly a decade, she served as the CEO of a multi-million dollar organization dedicated to bringing together leaders, communities, and systems around shared goals. She holds a Master's degree in Public and Non-Profit Administration and has spent over twenty years learning what it actually takes to move people from conversation to action.
In 2022, her husband Satish passed away unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 38. She started writing to process her grief out loud. What she didn't expect was how many people it would reach, or what it would teach her about the power of honest, curious, unguarded human expression.
Follow the Knowing grew from both of those experiences. The professional and the personal. The systems thinker and the griever. The executive and the human, just trying to learn from all the unexpected challenges life throws our way.
That intersection is where this work lives.
The Writing
Every week, Susan writes a new essay sharing what it actually looks like to step into the unknown. Through personal stories, she explores what it means to approach the world with curiosity instead of fear, with an open heart instead of a closed one, including the tumbles that happen along the way. It's a space where Becoming We is not just taught, but lived.
If you want to walk alongside someone who is genuinely practicing this, imperfectly and out loud, this is where that happens.
