Catalyzing Holistic Change for Complex Challenges
Harness collective intelligence to drive systemic transformation
What We Do
The Shoal Co. is a partner for change‑makers navigating complexity — blending systems thinking, team development, and facilitation to help teams and organisations work better together and make progress where it matters most.
Uncover Root Causes
Analyze interconnections to move beyond surface-level symptoms
Cultivate Collaboration
Support the whole system to see itself and co-create solutions
Enhance Adaptability
Respond and evolve with ever-changing conditions on the ground
We help mission-led organizations sense, map, and shift systems, unlocking collective action for deep transformation.
Imagine a shoal of fish—loosely connected yet responsive to one another. Now picture them transforming into a school, moving in perfect unison with shared purpose, their synchronicity creating strength and resilience.
At The Shoal Co., we help organizations make this shift—from loosely connected efforts to aligned, purposeful action. By bridging individual behaviors with deeper systemic awareness, we empower teams and different stakeholders in the system to embrace collaborative leadership, move cohesively, navigate complexity, and create meaningful, lasting impact in the systems they serve.
Our Mission
Our Vision
A world where diverse voices co-create transformative solutions, weaving new possibilities for a just and regenerative future.
Our Services
Systems Learning and Leadership
Duration: 1.5 - full day
We offer tailored training to build the mindsets, skills, and leadership needed to navigate complexity and enable systemic change. Your team will learn to see and sense your system through tactile practices and embodied intelligence, uncovering strategic directions for change.
Systems Strategy Advisory
Duration: two weeks to multiple months
We will guide your organization to explore, understand, and influence the underlying dynamics of the system you operate in. Through systems mapping and weaving collaborative insights from multiple stakeholders, we will equip you with the knowledge and tools to craft adaptive strategies that navigate the evolving currents of your systemic challenge.
Duration: online survey and half day debrief workshop
We guide your team to uncover the hidden dynamics shaping how people speak up, take risks, and support one another. Using the Fearless Organization Scan®—a research-backed assessment of psychological safety—we surface actionable insights and facilitate a collaborative debrief to help you strengthen trust, learning, and performance from within.
Team Development
Who We Work With
We work with teams and organizations tackling complex challenges — especially in the areas of climate, conservation, and social impact.
We're designed for:
Funders and government agencies taking a systemic approach to change
Nonprofits and NGOs designing strategies in uncertain, shifting contexts
Mission-led businesses exploring how to grow with purpose and integrity
Collaboratives and networks working across sectors or geographies
Whether you're navigating internal dynamics, stuck in strategy, or overwhelmed by complexity — we help you step back, see clearly, and move forward with focus.
Not sure if a systems approach is the right fit for your team or organisation?
Take our FREE 3-minute Systems Readiness Check — a quick, insightful survey designed to help you understand whether systems thinking is likely to be a useful approach for you right now.
Systems Readiness Check (Free!)
Testimonials
Pei Ya is an outstanding facilitator. I partook in a workshop where Pei Ya led a systems mapping exercises on a complex fisheries system in Indonesia. She had the ability to make what could have been a highly complicated activity easy to understand and fun to engage with. Highly recommend working with Pei Ya!
Dr. Mei'ra Mizrahi
WCS Marine Director, South-east Asia Pacific
The workshops were not only immensely productive, but rewarding and delightful.
Pei Ya is a skilled systems change facilitator and thoughtful leader. I have and would recommend her to anyone thinking of planning a systems mapping or systems change project. I participated in two workshops she led; each had about 20 participants from representing multiple organizations, disciplines, cultures and personalities. She planned and managed the content adeptly and the workshops were not only immensely productive, but rewarding and delightful.
Jada Tullos Anderson
Global Community Fisheries Program Manager, WCS
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Product Design Specialist
Navigating problems through a lens of systems thinking and solving them using reputed and reliable models such as iceberg model was something new and hopeful for me. The amount of change we all can bring by beginning to think in a multi-directional way to shift our own mental models is so powerful. I walked out of the room with hope and curiosity to learn and implement this in my studies and work.
Prajakta Deshpande
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Pei Ya is a great facilitator — she is able to break down complex processes into simple explanations & guide us to explore topics of our choice with ease. Her warm & down-to-earth personality also made the workshop space feel very welcoming & gave us room to relax & co-create openly together.
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Yeo Ying Jie
Marketing Communications Professional
Systems Learning and Leadership
It was empowering and inspiring to interact with people from different backgrounds and exchange experiences, views and ideas. It makes action feel more possible
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Carol Lim
Co-founder, Teach the Future Singapore Hub
Real Impact Advisors
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Great session! The workshop gave me tools to structure how I think about the future.
Maleeka Hassan
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