From Complexity to Clarity
A Practical Course to Support Leaders Through Complexity
The challenge you face
Across your Network or Fellowship, people are leading organizations that are navigating more complexity than ever, rising community need, shifting funding, staff burnout, political uncertainty, climate, public health.
Strategic plans aren’t holding and burnout is real.
Many leaders I have spoken to are trying to adapt without the tools or support they need.
The Solution:
From Complexity to Clarity, Training and Practice Program
From Complexity to Clarity is a flexible, hybrid course designed to help leaders:
Make sense of a fast-changing environment
Reflect on what’s working (and what’s not)
Get clarity about what to let go of and where to focus next
Communicate their evolving work with confidence
It’s grounded in widely respected tools built for complexity like the Forces model, which allows us to assess what is moving and changing in our environment, Ecocycle Planning model, which offers a tool for assessing the status of our work right now and simple frameworks for learning and communicating.
It is translated into a warm, usable format that doesn’t overwhelm.
Who is this for?
People who host Networks, Fellowships, are Membership Organizations, or have Grantees in need of support.
Sometimes known as social impact infrastructure organizations (SIIOs), these backbone organizations support hundreds of leaders and want a scalable, meaningful way to build their capacity.
Membership-based organizations
Fellowship or leadership development programs
Funders looking to invest in leadership capacity
Regional or global intermediaries
What’s included?
The course is self-paced, includes short videos, downloadable strategy tools, and is supported by optional live facilitation for deeper learning.
Each module includes:
Simple video explanations
Practical worksheets & reflection prompts
Optional group discussion questions
Tool templates that can be reused in any context
What is moving & changing in our environment?
The ‘Forces’ matrix to assess signals, threats & opportunities
What is our current strategy? What needs to change?
Map work across the Ecocycle to see what’s thriving, stuck, or emerging
Communicating our new position
Get templates + guidance to align teams and stakeholders
Learning and Adapting
Build a team framework for learning and adapting strategy over time.
Tailor it to your industry or field of practice.
We work with you to turn this into a hybrid course, with live Q&A or peer-learning sessions or additional content, specific webinars to meet the needs of your audience.
License the course for your network, cohort or grantees
Hybrid option, with live hosted peer-to-peer workshops to trouble shoot, ask questions or office hours for busy leaders who need individual coaching.
Co-branding and partnership options available. We can add sessions you know your audience is grappling with
We handle the delivery. You offer your community something deeply useful, with no extra lift for your team.
Watch teacher of the course, Rachel Sinha
Talking about Strategy Tools for Leaders Navigating Complexity.
Rachel has been teaching and training people internationally who are leading change in complex environments for
Network Leaders: You walk away with:
A Scalable Way to Build Capacity
Reach hundreds of members or grantees with a high-quality leadership experience, without building a whole new program from scratch.
Stronger, More Aligned Leaders
As your members work through the course, they show up more focused, strategic, and able to engage with your shared mission at a deeper level.
Shared Language and Tools Across Your Network
Members learn core frameworks and vocabulary that makes cross-organizational collaboration and alignment easier.
Enhanced Value for Your Membership or Fellowship
Strengthened reputation and deepening engagement with your community because you offer something tangible, relevant, and trusted.
Flexible, Low-Lift Implementation
We take care of delivery. You choose how to offer it, license it, co-brand it, promote it as a member benefit, or host a cohort with live touchpoints.
What your members will walk away with:
Strategic Insight
Move from reactive firefighting to proactive, adaptive strategy. They’ll gain clarity on what to focus on, what to release, and how to lead through ongoing change.
Confidence in Communication
Ability to articulate their work’s value and direction to funders, partners, and teams, even in uncertain conditions.
A Sense of Camaraderie
Connect with others facing similar challenges and leave with the feeling that they’re not doing this alone. Optional live touchpoints create space for reflection, encouragement, and shared learning.
Practical Tools & Templates
Frameworks like the Ecocycle, Forces and comms frameworks, plus worksheets and prompts they can use with their team, right away.
Personal Resilience Practices
A full section is dedicated to sustaining themselves as leaders, acknowledging the emotional weight of the work and offering practices to stay grounded and well.
Who is teaching this?
Rachel Sinha teaches and trains people internationally who are leading change in complex environments.
Rachel Sinha
Rachel Sinha partners with leaders spearheading transformative change initiatives, offering expert guidance in systems leadership and strategic direction. She has over a decade of experience co-leading innovative platforms and multi-stakeholder networks and a proven track record of creating the conditions for systemic change.
Rachel co-founded The Systems Sanctuary, teaching and training leaders on systems leadership and strategy for systemic change. Based in St Louis and Montreal, the Sanctuary Team worked for 7 years with individuals, teams and ecosystems to support learning and coach next steps. They taught a Masterclass in Systems Practice for and hosted peer-learning communities for people leading social and environmental change in everything from refugee action, to climate change, gender based violence and beyond.
She has a long track record of starting-up and co-leading ecosystems, multi-stakeholder platforms and networks that create the conditions for systems change.
Rachel co-founded The Finance Innovation Lab in London, a collaboration between WWF and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 2008. This award-winning systems change initiative became a key case study in the early years of Innovation Labs and has been shared at Yale, Harvard and Stanford amongst others. Rachel was chosen to sit on the European Commission panel for Social Business as a result of her work on the Lab and received a ‘person of exceptional ability’ Green Card, to move to the US with her young family.
She co-founded spin-off initiatives from the Lab including the Capitals Coalition and Audit Futures. Most recently, with a core group of other systems change leaders, The Sanctuary team became the start-up crew for Illuminate - designed to cultivate the field of systems change practice internationally with partners including Academy of Systems Change, CoCreative, Garfield, Lankelly Chase and School of Systems Change.
Rachel began her career in Marketing (MA), working both agency and client side and still holds that strategic mindset. She has always had an interest in Psychology (BA) and knows the value of creating clear punchy comms that cuts through the noise to shift hearts and minds and bring people in.
Rachel frequently speaks at webinars and conferences on systems change and has co-authored a series of articles in Harvard Business Review and Fast Company and publications including Labcraft: How Social Labs Cultivate Change Through Collaboration and The Finance Innovation Lab: A Strategy For Systems Change and Building Ecosystems for Positive Change. Collaborating with Oxford Said Business School, she also led an inquiry into the language of systems change and launched the publication Keywords.
Rachel has taught strategy for systems change at Harvard, The New School, The US Federal Government.
She has worked on Sustainability issues at the think tank of ICAEW and facilitated more multi-stakeholder gatherings than she can count, with the International Federation of Accountants in New York and has facilitated social innovation processes with senior post secondary leaders in Canada with McConnell, on the Opioid Crisis in California, with systems change funders and beyond.
Rachel is British and has lived in the US for 9 years. She has lived in New York, San Francisco and now lives in St Louis in Missouri in the US with her young family.