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.
Self-paced video lessons breaking down strategy tools
Worksheets, templates, and reflection prompts
Frameworks: Forces Model, Ecocycle Planning, Communications templates
Optional live facilitation: Office hours or peer workshops
Customization options: Tailored webinars, co-branding for your network
Licensing available: Scalable across grantees, members, or cohorts
Delivery is lightweight and flexible and designed to meet busy leaders where they are without overwhelming your team.
It can be completed in 6 hours.
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.
Choose your plan
From Complexity to Clarity is a practical, hybrid course that helps leaders navigate complex environments with clarity, focus, and resilience. It includes access to the online course and one 1-2-1 personal coaching session with Rachel.
Hybrid course designed specifically for teams navigate complex environments. This package includes access for your whole team
Satisfaction Guarantee
I stand behind the quality of this program.
If you are not satisfied after participating, you are can request a full refund within 10 days of the session.
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FAQs
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The course is offered in a hybrid format: self-paced video modules paired with optional live sessions.
Participants get access to downloadable worksheets, strategy tools, and reflection prompts.
For teams or networks, we offer customized facilitation and licensing options.
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Yes. The Team Package is built for that. It includes 6 licenses, a host facilitation guide, and a team coaching session.
Each person moves through the modules individually, timezone friendly.
You can then come together and host your own workshop using the questions in the worksheets included. Facilitate yourselves through the exercises.
You can use these sessions to decide what you want to focus your group coaching session on too.
Book in time with Rachel for a group coaching session and use that session to answer any clarifying, probing or strategic questions.
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Absolutely. Many teams find it powerful to:
Watch modules individually
Complete worksheets in advance
Use in-person or virtual time together for 1–2 workshops (we provide the structure)
Schedule a group coaching call with Rachel after completing the content to focus on live questions or next steps
This makes best use of time together and moves the team quickly into clarity and strategic alignment.
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For each participant:
1 hour for video lessons. We know you are busy and have kept them deliberately short. Each video is a max of 8 mins long.
1 hour for worksheets (if completed in a draft like way)
1-hour individual coaching or group coaching session
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Yes. If you want to buy a package for more than 6 people reach out.
We offer scalable licensing for networks, grantee cohorts, or membership organizations.
You can co-brand the program and add content specific to your field.
We could also design additional learning elements like webinars or individual coaching, to meet your needs.
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The course includesoffer:
Simple video explanations for each framework.
Worksheets with in-house facilitation guides so you can host strategy sessions yourself.
If you need further support reach out. It could include:
Live co-facilitation with Rachel. Either online with virtual mapping tools, or face to face.
Office hours or peer learning circles to deepen learning
Train-the-trainer options for scale
Let us know how involved you'd like us to be, from hands-off to hands-on, we’re flexible.
rachel@thesystemstudio.com
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Yes! We offer:
Licensing packages (starting at $300/seat with sliding scale options)
Cohort onboarding and orientation
Support for monitoring engagement and feedback
Reporting options if needed
We’ve designed this to be lightweight to administer but impactful at scale.
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Clarity on where to focus their energy
Confidence in communicating strategy during uncertainty
Frameworks for adaptive strategy (Ecocycle, Forces, comms)
Practical worksheets to engage their teams
Personal resilience tools
Optional 1:1 coaching session with Rachel for deeper integration
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Yes. Many networks choose to:
Offer a facilitated kickoff
Host 1–2 live group workshops to go deeper
Offer optional office hours for questions
Use the coaching session to synthesize and align
We handle the logistics. You choose how you want to engage.
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Yes. We offer:
Options for payment in 1 or 2 installments
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This course is ideal for:
Network or community of practice leaders
Fellowship or alumni networks
Grantmakers wanting to build capacity across a portfolio
Backbone teams supporting systems change
Teams navigating organizational transition or strategy pivots
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Shared language and strategic clarity
A clear view of what to stop, start, and shift
Tools to communicate evolving direction
A team framework for adaptive learning
Confidence and cohesion, even during change
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We offer a satisfaction guarantee. If you're not satisfied within 10 days, you can request a full refund.
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Email Rachel directly at rachel@thesystemstudio.com or book a call here.
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The small print
Competitor Purchase Policy
I reserve the right to cancel and refund purchases made by individuals or organizations offering similar training or services.
This course is designed for learning and application, not for competitive research. Thank you for understanding and respecting the spirit of this offering.
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Refund Policy:
If you are not satisfied with the course for any reason, you may request a full refund within 10 days of your purchase date.
To request a refund, you must email rachel@thesystemstudio.com within the 10-day window, including your name, purchase details, and a brief explanation.
Refunds will be processed to the original payment method within 10 business days of approval.
No refunds will be issued after the 10-day period.
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.