What we do

Build capability where the work is hardest.

Sophia Network works with leaders when the stakes are high, the path is not fully known, and a durable answer matters more than a polished deck.

Discounted pricing is available for nonprofit organizations. Discuss your nonprofit’s needs.

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Mergers & acquisitions

Create a shared identity, aligned leadership, and the cultural conditions for a new organisation to move together.

Built for organizations facing

Acquisition, cultural integration, a new identity, and the work of bringing inherited teams together.

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02

Critical projects & strategy

Turn urgent strategic work into cross-functional action with learning built into the work itself.

Built for organizations facing

A strategic plan that needs momentum, a complex project that crosses silos, or a goal that cannot wait.

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03

Culture & collaboration

Build the psychological safety, shared purpose, and operating habits that facilitate consequential work.

Built for organizations facing

A loss of trust, low engagement, organizational fatigue, or an urgent need to make work meaningful again.

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04

Leadership alignment

Help executive teams listen across differences, make clearer decisions, and lead change as one system.

Built for organizations facing

A consequential decision, competing priorities, a transition, or an executive team that needs to act with coherence.

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05

T3: A roadmap to the Innovation Ecosystem

We provide a roadmap for building your Innovation Ecosystem, so your organization does not need consulting after nine months of training and implementation.

T3 includes:

  • Setting up the infrastructure: a meeting cadence, a communication team, and an oversight committee in which each member sponsors a team.
  • Training coaches to become coaches and to succeed in the process.

Built for organizations facing

Building internal capability, establishing the infrastructure for innovation, and developing coaches who can lead the process independently.

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06

Leadership development

Develop leaders who can think systemically, build relationships, and sustain learning through change.

Built for organizations facing

Leaders who need greater systems thinking, deep listening, accountability, and the ability to lead learning.

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07

Executive forums & coaching

Create a regular practice for senior leaders to learn, align, and address complex issues together.

Built for organizations facing

Leaders who need a recurring forum for alignment, reflection, practice, and work on the issues that matter.

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Build lasting internal capability

Train-the-Coach certification

Inside your organization

A three-month certification process develops 6–8 internal coaches who can lead the Innovation Ecosystem methodology independently. The program includes the book and a licensing fee.

For independent practitioners

Consultants bring a team of 6–8 client employees, develop their practice, and license the methodology to lead implementation with their clients.

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Systems thinking training

A standalone program for leaders and teams who need to understand interconnected challenges, mental models, and reinforcing feedback loops.

Speaking and academic engagements

Keynotes for executive conferences and large companies, business school sessions, and conversations about bulk or academic orders of Innovation Ecosystems by Ilene Fischer.

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Not a standard program

Every engagement is designed around the organization, the people in it, and the work that must move.

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