Inner Wilderness Guide
Integration Specialist
I’m Dave Schoof.
I'm Dave Schoof.
For more than three decades I've worked with leaders, founders, coaches, and explorers whose experience has taught them that there comes a point when more knowledge, more effort, or better techniques are no longer enough.
My work has taken me from counterintelligence to executive coaching to the exploration of consciousness and human development.
Across all those worlds, one question has remained the same:
How do we navigate well when the old maps stop working?
If this resonates, don't start with a program.
Start with a practice of noticing.
Field Notes is a short, free email series designed to help you slow down, recognize the terrain you're already living in, and begin orienting in a different way.
A quiet place to begin.
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The world has changed.
Many of the assumptions that once helped us navigate work, leadership, and life are becoming less reliable.
The pace of change is accelerating. Complexity is increasing. The old formulas still work — until they don't.
Many capable people can feel it long before they can explain it.
Perhaps you've noticed it yourself.
The strategies that built your success require more effort than they once did.
Questions that used to have clear answers no longer do.
You find yourself navigating situations that don't respond to experience alone.
It's not that you've become less capable.
It may be that the terrain itself has changed.
Most approaches help you optimize the map you already have.
The Pivot begins when the map no longer matches the terrain.
It isn't another framework.
It's a different way of orienting, making sense of complexity, and moving wisely —
without losing sight of your own judgment, values, and what matters most.