We enable complex systems thinking, collaborative sensemaking, and innovative and adaptive learning
Our Purpose and Values
Sophoi works on, and contributes to addressing the most pressing global challenges – climate change, environment and biodiversity loss, poverty and inequality. These “wicked problems” are the defining feature of the Anthropocene – characterised by dynamic interactions between humans and ecosystems, across complex and contested systems.
Addressing these challenges requires resilient, transformative and systemic change. Innovative solutions need to be urgently found, tested and scaled. These solutions need to be grounded in robust evidence, practical learning and enhanced capacity. Our approaches and methods are informed by complex systems thinking, collaborative sensemaking, and innovative and adaptive learning.
Through the services, skills and expertise we provide, Sophoi aims to have a positive social and environmental impact in the way we work and the work we do, contributing to solving global challenges — climate change, environment and biodiversity loss, poverty and inequality – in collaboration with our partners
Sophoi’s four core values underpin both how we behave and the work we take on.
Imagination and Innovation
We bring this great human superpower into our work to help us and our clients picture what is possible
Empathy and Collaboration
We will do all we can to connect with our clients and, by extension, the people they serve with as much understanding as we can about why they do what they do. People drive change, and people are complicated — we try to understand them.
Rigour
We will make sure our work is robust, practical and grounded in evidence.
Reflection and Learning
Through our collaborative sensemaking partnerships, we will help teams and organisations understand internal and external challenges, provide support in adapting to them, and facilitate insights to achieve meaningful change.