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Cohera Labs is a curated platform where business professionals, strategists, and innovators gather to share ideas, solve challenges, and build the human bonds that drive extraordinary outcomes.
Share and discover innovative concepts that improve how humans connect and how businesses grow through that connection.
Post real business challenges, receive strategic frameworks from experienced peers, and vote on the best solutions.
Share detailed business cases — what worked, what didn't, and the insights that power better strategic decisions.
Build your professional network with verified business cards. Find collaborators, advisors, and strategic partners.
We built Cohera Labs because we believe the business world has become dangerously transactional. Spreadsheets, dashboards, and algorithms have their place — but when organisations forget that every metric represents a human being, strategy fails from the inside out.
Gallup's global research shows that only 23% of employees are engaged at work. McKinsey reports that poor collaboration costs businesses up to $400 billion annually. Harvard Business Review found that 58% of executives trust strangers more than their own teams.
These are not HR problems. These are strategy problems. When trust collapses inside an organisation, the most brilliant strategy in the world cannot survive execution.
And yet, almost every business strategy framework in existence treats human connection as a footnote — a cultural initiative to be handled by People & Culture after the "real" strategy work is done.
Companies spend billions on strategy consulting, digital transformation, and innovation programmes — then wonder why change doesn't stick. The answer is almost always the same: the human infrastructure wasn't in place to carry the strategy forward.
Cohera Labs was built to make this truth impossible to ignore. We are a platform where human connection is not the soft backdrop to strategy — it is the strategy.
Organisations where people genuinely trust each other execute faster, adapt more confidently, and retain their best minds longer. Connection is not a culture perk — it is the most durable competitive moat available to any business. It cannot be copied by competitors, cannot be automated away, and compounds over time.
A strategy that fails to account for how humans actually feel, decide, and behave is a strategy built on sand. The best analytical frameworks in the world are only as strong as the human insight behind them. Empathy — understanding what matters to people and why — is not a soft skill. It is the most rigorous form of market intelligence.
No single leader, team, or organisation has a monopoly on strategic wisdom. The best ideas emerge from the collision of diverse perspectives, honest challenge, and shared experience. Cohera Labs exists to create the conditions for that collision — safely, intentionally, and with the depth the subject deserves. We are better strategists together.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly absorbing the analytical, process-driven work that once defined professional value. What cannot be automated — judgment, trust, creativity, genuine relationship — becomes exponentially more valuable. The businesses that will lead the next decade are those building their strategy around what humans do irreplaceably well.
The pandemic distributed our workforces and made visible a truth that was always there: most of what we called "company culture" was proximity, not depth. As hybrid and remote work become permanent features of business life, organisations must build intentional connection infrastructure — or watch their strategic capacity quietly erode.
The challenges facing business today — climate transition, AI governance, workforce transformation, geopolitical volatility — are too complex for command-and-control leadership. They require organisations where information flows freely, people challenge upward without fear, and leadership is earned through demonstrated integrity. That is only possible where trust runs deep.
Cohera Labs is our answer to these converging forces. A platform designed with intention: where serious professionals can develop and share the human-centered strategic frameworks the moment demands. Not a social network. Not a conference. A living, breathing laboratory for the intersection of human connection and business strategy.
Cohera Labs is selective by design. We are looking for professionals who don't just agree with these ideas — but who are living them in their organisations and willing to share what they're learning.
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With more than 20 years working at the intersection of business strategy, leadership, and organisational change, Ina has seen the same pattern play out across industries, geographies, and company sizes: the best-designed strategies collapse when the human element is treated as secondary.
She has spent her career helping organisations build the kind of deep, durable trust that allows bold ideas to actually happen — where people speak honestly, challenge constructively, and execute with genuine commitment rather than compliance.
That experience — the wins, the hard lessons, the patterns that repeat across every sector — is what Cohera Labs was built to share and multiply. Not through a consultancy. Through a community.
In over 20 years, Ina has never seen a strategy fail because the spreadsheet was wrong. Strategies fail because the people responsible for executing them weren't aligned, trusted, or genuinely committed. People are not the soft layer of strategy — they are its infrastructure.
Ina is not anti-technology — she's deeply excited by what AI and digital tools can unlock. But she is firm on the sequencing: technology should amplify human capability, not substitute for the human judgment, empathy, and relationship-building that no algorithm can replicate.
The world has enough LinkedIn connections and Twitter followers. Cohera Labs was built intentionally small and selective because Ina believes depth beats breadth in community building — the same principle that defines great business relationships.
We are living through an era of extraordinary technological change. AI is reshaping every profession, every industry, every workflow. In that context, it might seem counterintuitive to build a platform centred on human connection. I think it's the most important thing I could do.
Because when the machines can do everything analytical, what remains — what creates the difference between companies that thrive and those that just survive — will be the quality of human relationships inside and around those organisations. I want Cohera Labs to be the place where serious professionals come to develop that edge. Together.
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