Sophie Charrois

Sophie Charrois is a practitioner of participatory leadership, collective learning, and life-centric forms of organising. Her work explores how people and organisations can find orientation in times of uncertainty, complexity, and transition. Not through tighter control or rigid solutions, but through deeper relationships: with ourselves, with each other, and with the living systems we belong to.

For more than a decade, Sophie has been working at the intersection of systems change, embodiment, organisational development, and participatory practice. She creates learning spaces where dialogue, movement, play, reflection, and shared inquiry become pathways into new ways of relating and collaborating. Her work invites people to move beyond separation and toward a more regenerative understanding of leadership: one rooted in presence, curiosity, trust, and collective intelligence.

At the core of Sophie’s approach is the belief that human beings already carry an innate sense of direction. In a world shaped by ecological, social, and cultural disruption, she is interested in the conditions that help this deeply embodied emerge, both individually and collectively. Her practice draws from the wisdom of the body, nature, intergenerational exchange, and the creative potential that arises when diverse perspectives meet in meaningful conversation.

Sophie holds a master’s degree in sustainability, complexity, and participatory leadership with a focus on organisational development. Alongside her academic path, she has continued to learn through a wide ecosystem of communities and practices, including the Art of Hosting, the Flowgame, Systemic Constellations, Yoga, mythosomatic reenactment, and Warm Data. These experiences have shaped her understanding of leadership as an ongoing relational practice rather than a fixed role or expertise.

Her experience in international networks such as oikos International, Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, and UN Principles for Responsible Management Education reinforced her commitment to more participatory, adaptive, and trust-based ways of organising. Through these roles, she explored how governance, collaboration, and learning can evolve when organisations are approached as living systems rather than static structures.

Today, Sophie designs and hosts learning journeys for individuals, communities, and organisations who are seeking new paradigms of leadership and collaboration. Her current work includes trainings in participatory methodologies such as the Art of Hosting and the Flowgame,  rites of passage for young adults, or the design and implementation of learning infrastructure such as NEIII’s Impact Investing Fellowship.

Across her work runs a deep fascination for the spaces in between: between disciplines, generations, cultures, and ways of knowing. Sophie sees transformation not as a linear process of fixing problems, but as a collective practice of sensing, relating, and learning together. She is particularly drawn to the questions that emerge when we slow down enough to listen more deeply to ourselves, to each other, and to the wider living world, tapping into new possibilities towards a thriving future.